on the repainting of buildings....

after 1 week of urging, confronting, chasing, making a lot of of noise to the lift vendor to quickly settle the new door, wall formica & flooring for the blk k lift, we still didn't see it completed even until today, besides impatient, also a lot of frustration, we know that it's at the end of tunnel but it doesn't seem arrived already, now we fix the target date at next Monday or Tuesday, hope to see the lift running then.

but while we are angry & upset abt the slow process, we are also thankful for at least it's making progress although it's so slow, it's so torturing, reason being, last week we received a phone call from a supervisor of one apartment project in Penang Island, asking us how to take back the 20% of the deposit money (which they deposited in the government treasury dept) for the lift upgrade project because they want to scrap this project, after giving the contact person in the EXCO for them to pursue the money, we also found out there's some issue in their project with some vendor & until now didn't even start work & their project was approved abt the same like ours, so now as we are not too happy with the pace with our vendor, we also feel fortunate for at least it's still on the right track.

in last posting we saw a comment of a potential buyer of vista unit abt when to repaint our building, honestly we have no answer on this question but trying now to work out a solution or formula to repaint our building. For info, sinking fund still stagnant as we are now seeking EXCO & senior lawyer's help on how to make use of the court order (that the developer should release the fund of amounting to nearly 400K to our residents) to recover the money, and we also have visited the state gov't office for the gov't fund (same as lift, 80% by gov't, 20% by residents) but first attempt was rejected, we were told by them that the fund is only for low cost & gov't owned apartments... :(

but anyway, we have asked contractor to view our building & give us quotation to repaint the external wall, ie not including the wall facing the corridor of every floor, in another word, only paint those walls which can be seen from outside, now still waiting for their quotations. Our another restriction is we can only pay them in installment, perhaps first payment can be 20K, but then the subsequent ones will be maybe 4k per month, so this will take up to 2 or 3 years to pay up, hopefully we will be able to find contractor who is kind enough to agree on this, do u guys got anyone can recommend?

thanks......