more money in, less money out.

2 years ago, when JMB started to implement the T&G barrier system, few residents angrily said we are all "money face"!!! now i must say, maybe they are right :)

why? because all these while we have been thinking abt MONEY, how to get more money to maintain & improve the facilities in vista condo, and at the same time to cut down unnecessary expenses so to make the finance look better....

in fact, after Najib gave a bombshell of GST announcement & TNB increase the tariff, day & night we are thinking, checking around with residents & vendor, of how to do the "more money in, less money out" stuff, so that our residents do not need to pay more in the Service Charge (SC), but remain as RM100 in this year & hopefully years to come too.

(yesterday read from news portal that, the MP of Komtar YB Ng Wei Aik even predicts that this year most of the apartments will increase their SC in order to cope with the hikes in their expenses, especially TNB bills).

so for the "more money in, less money out", we are planning few projects, and rest assured that we would not compromise the safety even if need to cut cost in certain area...

we have mentioned much on T5 which is in the progress, so not need to repeat again here, but also exploring LED bulb for the car park compound lighting (abt 50 in total), wattage drop from abt 29w to 9w but equal brightness (LUX) according to vendor, the best is the cost of LED bulb is not much different from the conventional one, most likely will go ahead after first phase of T5 project completed.

thanks to the resident who suggested the recycle project, if we do it well, then should have few hundred ringgit extra income per month, now we are talking to few recycling vendors for the price (metal, aluminium, paper, etc), once the term is right & get the suitable location for the recycle the we will announce it to our beloved residents, hope can get all our residents' support to work together to generate more income thru this project so no need to increase SC in the coming years.

we are also checking all the corridors/staircase light timing, even the pumps as well, so that by setting the optima timing for ON/OFF the lighting, pump, etc, will save another few hundred, but we must stress here, we would not compromise the safety of residents just for the sake of money.

in fact another good way of save money is equipments upgrade, for info, after one of blk k lift upgraded, we see the TNB bill for blk k drop few hundred ringgit, so we expect another few hundred ringgit drop after 2nd lift be upgraded, we hope can do the same thing for blk j lift, get gov't fund to upgrade the lifts & harvest the benefits on the TNB bill, but we also plan to talk to the supplier for the lift control system to have minima upgrade (less cost) but big drop in TNB bill in blk j, if the cost is not high, then may want to give it a shot.

other equipment which also in consideration like monitor screen mentioned by KK in last post, pumps, T&G barrier, etc, we are checking with all these vendors to see worth keeping the existing system, or upgrade them to get long term benefits, especially in term of finance....

welcome you guys' suggestion...

thanks.