rotten trees at swimming pool

hv no choice but got to chop down those trees, the rotten ones.

only found out recently that, termites hv conquered our swimming pool too, they built their house at the trunks, branches, roots, no wonder there's always incidents of falling branches, thank goodness no body injured by that so far.

at first we only be troubled by the fallen leaves, which hv block the filter of the pool & caused problem of overflowing, waste our water, there was suggestion to chop the tree but AGM decided to chop branches, not tree.

but now, trees need to be chopped, for public safety, time is running out, those seemingly strong trunk & branches are actually will fall or collapse as inside them just hollow!

notice being put up to inform residents abt the plan, we will wait for 1 week for residents to feedback their view, or like to hv a look by themselves, in fact they should see how bad the condition.

thanks
cheng/JMB

repairing the broken ship, make it new again!

like it or not, we r inheriting the broken ship from the previous management, what we r trying to do now is to patch all the holes b4 the ship sunk.

past 2 months, holes been patched are water tanks, piping problem, the broken fencing, car park lot, generator, swimming pool, circuit board at switch room, etc...

we know that we got no time to complain, got no time to blame the previous management, got no time to tell resident how bad the condition, but we are competing with time to fix as many holes as we can.

we try to put thing to proper order, so we start with car park system, we got to make sure all resident will have their own parking lot, so there's no dispute over that area.

we try to convince residents to pay their service charge promptly so that we wil have enough fund to repair this broken ship, in the past they refuse to pay coz of car park & poor service quality, so we try to solve these problems so that they wil feel they $$$ is well spent, as we can see now the paying rate is slowly increase.

we are repairing the broken ship, and if God willing, after all the holes been patched, with extra effort from residents, we will make it in good condition like when it was newly built..., let's work together, to make Vista a better place for living!

cheng/JMB

car parking problem & solution

vista residents will hv opportunity to solve the car parking problem once & for all....but, are we too optimistic?

let's 1st talk our current problem, many residents park more than 2 cars in the compound, this cause shortage of the parking lot, then, those who are without parking lot refused to pay service charge (SC), then, due to shortage of fund, we only can employ 2nd class vendor to maintain our facilities, then, more residents don't pay SC coz they see the service is bad, then....u see the chain-reaction?

well, now the car parking sticker is suggested & passed in AGM, 1 parcel 1 sticker, which means only 1 car/parcel be allowed, this is good to make sure all the residents will hv their parking lot, also this will make sure residents to pay SC as the condition to issue the sticker is depend on their payment status.

idea is ideal, but implementation....? definitely tough! some1 told me better to hire few body guard to protect the security guard, worry that some residents will beat up the guard when refused the entry; also some say to place the CCTV to check if the guard will be bribed to let car without sticker to enter; also some say committee member will need to watch out their safety as these residents are angry.....

it takes all parties' cooperation to make this plan success! we hv told security guard not to quarrel with residents but just to stay firm, worst case they will need to call policemen. abt the bribe, we hv get the security company to agree with us that once we find a car without sticker in our compound, then deduction of RM20 will applied on the monthly fee, so if we find 10 cars, then deduction will be RM200! then abt the committee's safety, we only can look to God for protection.

i'm personally quite confident with the plan, simply bcoz i hv seen majority of residents do like to see the problem of car park, SC, facilities, etc to be solved, & they are agreeable to the plan, & at the moment we r sharing the vision to as many residents as we can, hope that they can see the points too.

tough, but exciting task, huh?

cheng/JMB

2nd AGM, Vista Resident is boss!

the most special & significant thing abt the 2nd AGM is the Vista resident are given all the right to decide all the item brought up during the AGM, and, this should be the way the thing goes!

no longer management or JMB to give direction & residents just to follow, but this time residents are really the only boss for Vista condo; JMB & management's roles are to make sure that all the decisions made by residents will be carried out properly!

so, small decision like removing swimming pool grill, chopping tree, swim wear, or big ones like car sticker, new car park, service charge, all these decided by residents, we r encouraged to see many residents voice out their opinions on each item been discussed, i must say all the suggestion r constructive!

next thing to be happened, implementation of solution of various problem brought up during AGM, we can foresee tough challenge ahead, especially some defaulter will feel the pain to pay their outstanding fee, & residents who used to park their 2nd car in the compound may not allowed to do it anymore, etc...

but, we hv confident that when Vista residents are united, place common good above individual one, then our future will be bright, & we know that, it's happening now....we really can feel it during the AGM.

let's work together, making Vista a better place for living.

cheng/JMB

development concerning car park

we have painted the parking lot according to the existing arrangement, to our pleasant surprise, total is 280 lot! it's more than enough for our residents!

but why do we still have not enough parking lot? it's really sadden us when come to know that some residents who hv paid their service charge promptly still don't hv a permanent lot!

of course every resident know where is the problem, many vista residents do park 2 or more cars in the building compound, strangely some of them are holding 2 access card (touch n' go), & others are doing do the hand-scanning, just wave to the guard & the barrier will be opened!

this AGM we are going to deal with this! we must insist that every unit only will hv 1 car to be allowed to come in, with the condition that the service charge must be paid up to date! we wil suggest to use the car sticker & the guard will only allow cars with sticker to enter.

abt the guard, we will make sure that they will strictly follow this instruction, no sticker no entry, or else we will serve them notice of warning, if repeat again then we wil give them a boot!

we wil also like to surprise our resident abt 25 new lots....., the detail of the plan wil need u to come to AGM to find out.....see u there!

cheng/JMB

2nd AGM, pls do attend

2nd AGM is fixed on 27/5/09, 8pm at the Vista foyer, time really fly, it has been a year since we selected the JMB in the 1st AGM.

a lot of changes took place in the past 12 months, some of the significant 1 like changing the managing agent & other contractors...in fact we changed all the contractors! and right now we are monitoring their performance so pls do give us ur feedback too.

some of the other things are not as visual as these, but equally important, like repairing the water tanks & main pipes, generator, thorough cleaning of swimming pool, repainting the car park lot, replacing the capacitors in switch room, etc, in fact we plan to do more than this, but restricted by our financial position.

this coming AGM we will like to make few major decision together with the residents, especially the car park, there are some suggestions from the committee & residents of how to overcome parking lot shortage problem, let's discuss in d AGM & get the best option of that!

See ya.
Cheng/JMB

Oops! some hiccups!

10 days after new vendors took over in various jobs, basically things are moving ok, but...but...but, got to admit that, some hiccups here & there, they r :

1) swimming pool : we didn't expect the chemical cleaning will take more than 10 days! vendor just told us that if weather is good & they can clean the pool according to their schedule, then it will be re-oponed on 13/5 instead of 15/5.

2) staircase lighting : some of the lights at the staircase at both J & K block are ON & OFF at the wrong timing, we are at the moment trying to check which timers are controlling these lights, the electrician from the old management seems not very keen to help us in this area, well, no problem, we just need few more days' time to get our own technical guy to find out.

3) cleaning : we forgot to tell the cleaners that they need to "wash" the rubbish rooms of every floor after they hv remove the rubbish, but after sitting down with their boss, we believe they r following the instruction now...

4) security : some residents r not too comfortable to see many peoples like to gather around the guard post, thought they r outsiders, actually these r our residents, 1 of them is our committee member whose overseeing the security, another 1 is K block resident who just like to help up there.

also, there may be some other things JMB r not aware of, so pls do inform us if know any of that.

thanks.

cheng/JMB

new beginning with new Vista vendors

Residents will notice some new faces at the management office, security post, even the cleaners, lift technicians, pest control, and very soon u also can see new electrician for the gen set & swimming pool maintenance, and perhaps the only one remain unchanged is the car barrier vendor, which we think the service still ok so far.

after 2 months of interview & JMB discussion, we hope we had gotten the right contractors for various area, but of course only time can tell if JMB had made the right decisions concerning these. So feel free to feedback to us if residents have discover any vendor not performing up to the mark!

the management office have extended the office hour to 9pm (Mon-Fri only) from May onward, hope this will bring convenient to resident for paying service charge & making maintenance request. we will be soon register a hotline (mobile #) for the building supervisor, so that residents can call him even without dropping by the office, pls wait for the announcement.

up to this point, we haven't got the decision for the swimming pool & gen set vendor, but it should be decided by latest 1st week of May'09, so pls bear with us at the moment if the swimming pool is a bit dirty.....

cheng/JMB

water tanks repair update

we would like to share the good news with u that JMB have completed the repair work for the 3 water tanks according to the planned schedule, the total cost is RM4200. On top of that, we also spent another RM400 to repair the leak at the bomba water tank, we r expecting the next water bill will see RM1500 less than previous months!

for block-J residents who usually pass by the common area in between pump room & swimming pool, u will notice the dirty water (i called it tea-O water) on the floor has gone! that water was one leaked from the bomba water tank at the pump room, and it happened for pass few years, and now as we hv repaired the water tank, we will not need to suffer the sore-eye by looking at the tea-O everyday!

i attached photos here for you to see the different with & without tea-O water...guess which 1 is b4 repair & after repair...

cheng/JMB

hooray! new office is ready now!

JMB is excited abt the new office, it started operating on 20/4/09, a simple setting but nice environment for resident to pay their service charge & lodge complaint concerning maintenance matters.

JMB will be using the office for the meeting as well, at the moment we meet on every wednesday nite 9.30pm, feel free to drop by to give us some words of encouragement & ur suggestions of how to "make Vista Condo a better place for living".

the office hour is 9am to 6pm, lunch break 1pm to 2pm. but starting from May, we will extend office hour to 9pm, as many resident only come home after 6pm in the normal working day. (saturday is 9am to 1pm).

We will have 1 full time clerk to collect service charge during working hour, & 1 building supervisor who will oversee the performance of our facilities, cleaning service, security....

i would like to personally thank the JMB committee make this temporary office available, especially Teh for painting the door & wall, put up the new netting, Jeffery for getting aircond & other electrical item fixed, also Lim, Soon, Arman helping in painting the wall, we got to really thank God for all the committee member in JMB, their commitment in various areas are just fantastic!

cheng/JMB

Generator scandal!!!

It was power failure on 9/4/2009 (Thursday) night 11.40pm. Under normal circumstance, the back up generator should power up the lifts (J & K) and the lights at common areas, but it didn’t happen….

The JMB found out our Generator change-over panel had NOT been serviced for over years! Look at the picture, the ants have even built their fortress, as high as 2 feet tall, 2 inches thick! This caused short-circuit & the generator couldn’t functioning when we needed it the most!

But we were told by the management that the contractor have serviced the generator regularly, Vista resident are paying RM500.00 per month for generator & electrical service! Another evident of irresponsible act!

water tank, 1 fixed, 2 to go.

the plumber has came on last wednesday, labored a few hours at block-K rooftop, get our water tank fixed, the result was good so far, & the cost is RM1800.

now we r going for the other 2 water tank at block-K & block-J pump room respectively. plumber willing to give us special rate for these 2 tanks, abt RM1200 each (perhaps ground floor work is easier). he was the one who installed the water tank for Vista Condo when the project started 15 yrs ago, he may feel obliged not to charge too much for his old customer... :P

we hope to get these repair work completed b4 end of April, then by saving the water bill abt RM1000 per month, we will recover the repair cost in abt 5 months' time. (some1 actually told me the leakage may reach abt RM1500 per month!)

other development, JMB will get the car park line re-painted by the end of April, will number all the parking lot starting 001 to 275, then in May we will ask all resident to register their parking lot, strictly 1 lot per unit. the condition for car park registration is that resident got to clear the service charge, but for resident who can't settle outstanding bill now, we will allow installment, they just need to sign the repayment agreement in order to enjoy the parking facility.

feel free to drop by the notice board, we have just posted the cashflow of March there, this is to update our residents abt the account.

thanks.
cheng/JMB

more major leakings discovered!

now we r all the more convinced that we should terminate awan setia, & in fact we should hv done it many years ago.

we hv just recently done the inspection on the common facility, the water tank, pump, TNB room, telekom room, lift motor room....., to our shocking, there r 3 mojor leaks at our water tanks (1 at block-K rooftop, 1 at block-K ground floor, 1 at block-J ground floor).

from the stain we saw at the leaking area, these problem should hv been there easily few years, how bad these leak? each tank's leak is abt 5x of the water flow out from the water tape of ur kitchen, this could easily wasted our residents' money perhaps more than RM1000 per month!

we should blame awan setia for did not bother to fix it, but we hv found something even worse! some maintenance guy (in the past) found the leak at the water tank of block-J ground floor pump room, instead of fixing it, he just hacked a hole at the wall of the pump room, so that the water leaked from the water tank will flow into the common drain!!! what a irresponsible attitude & action they show!!!

we r at the moment fixing the water tank at roof top of block-K, cost abt RM2000, the another 2 water tanks need to be fixed soon, most probably another RM4000, JMB hv to find way to get RM6000 to fix these problem, we r crossing our figure praying that there's no other major repair work needed....

and as for this irresponsible management agent, we should hv terminated them much earlier on....

cheng/jmb

immediate action to be expected, soon.... : )

we felt that 2 common facility issues needed to be attended now..

1) the water tank at block-K, the leaking is actually quite bad! it have been there easily few month already. there are 4 water tanks supporting block-K currently, the one on top of the 20th floor unit 3&4 is leaking badly, i guess every month we hv wasted more than RM400 for the leakage.

plumber will come next week to fix it, wil cost us a couple of thousands...., some residents from block-K upper floor had complained to the management abt the problem since last year, but no action taken. sigh, typical way of them when dealing with complaint.

2) we wil make the grassy abandoned ground at the end of block-K to be more feasible as car park, we plan to put some debris or even to cement/tar it, then to draw the proper line so that residents who do not hv parking lot can make use of that. we hv counted, more than 15 cars can be parked there with proper plan.

it should be done in april, the cost......depend on what material we are going to use, of course ideal one is to cement, let's check our service charge collection first, hehe :P

since last EGM some residents hv approached JMB with many excellent idea of improving car park, security, office location, facility...we are greatly encouraged! just many of these ideas only can be put into action after new managing agent take over in May'09, simply bcoz men power & proper plan/supervisory are needed. we are also inviting residents to be in the commitee to oversee these plans, do u like to be part of the team to serve the Vista residents?

thanks.

cheng/JMB

and now....discount for defaulter!

another good deal is on the way, for those who like to settle their old debts, they will enjoy remarkable discount on the interest!

we r talking abt if they pay their previous year outstanding fee (maintenance fee, insurance, quit rent, etc) b4 May'09, then 30% discount on the interest will be given, then 25% for those pay b4 June'09, 20% for b4 July'09, 15% b4 Aug'09 & 10% b4 Sept'09.

note that discount is on the interest, but not principle value, or else it will not be fair for those who hv been paying promptly all these years.

how abt if residents like to settle the old debts but not in the financial position to pay up all in this few months? well, we would like to make it easy for them to pay in installment manner, RM100 per month, we hv checked around & it seems not too burdensome for average income group. (but no discount will be given for this)

all they need to do now, just bring the receipt of last paym't, go to the collection booth at the foyer, fill in the repayment form b4 May'09, and start paying according to agreement.

what happen if defaulter choose not to pay? they r in the danger of losing the car parking lot, then if they continue to display non-cooperative attitude, they will be served warrant of attachment, it will ended up some of their asset be sold by city council to clear the debt, we hope this would not happen in Vista...

cheng/JMB

special discount for early maintenance fee paym't

the deal is really really good! If u hv some spared money in hand & plan to save them in bank, then u should take a good look on this offer!

1) 5% discount for those pay 3 months in advance (save RM15)

2) 10% for 6 months in advance (save RM60)

3) RM200 discount for pay 12 months in advance!!!

The rates are much higher than the interest rate any bank can offer now!!! The only condition is u must have no outstanding maintenance fee of previous months.

(I plan to pay 12 months in advance, which will save me RM200, abt 16% discount, compare to the FD abt 3%, wow! what a different!)

Remember, the temporary collection booth is at the foyer, in front of Vista swimming pool, I also attach some photo from the 1st day collection.

Thanks! Cheng/JMB

busy time - transition

for this 2 month (March & April), Joint management commitee, or in short form, JMC are working round the clock for the management transition, smooth one, hopefully.

we are having board meeting at least once a week, wednesday nite 9.30pm to finalize few things, such as temporary office, new contract for lift, housekeeping, security, pest control & etc, also cracking our mind to find way to improve car parking system & other facility....huge task! u actually can see almost every nite few JMC are gathering at the foyer, not for chit-chating, but discussing over these matters, we r thankful for their zeal & commitment!

our hope is like yours, the better future for Vista condo, like our vision slogan, "making vista a better place for living", we believe residents are making a 1st big step towards this by changing the current managing agent, which have long been regarded as inefficient, ineffective & irresponsible!

no one can guarantee that the new managing agent will be better one compare to the existing one, but new system will provide Vista residents the better way to monitor their performance, we are planning more dialogue/meeting in between resident & managing agent, also, residents will be given more authority over the matter in Vista.

our appeal to you, very soon we will enlarge our committee, pls join us when be approached, or if we don't spot u, feel free to volunteer yourself, after all it take everybody's effort to make Vista a better place for living.

Cheng/JMB

EGM major decision!

abt 80 purchasers turned up in the EGM (59 of them came early & registered, the rest came after meeting started), few major decision were made during the meeting, ya, major one...

JMB did expect residents will vote to terminate the managing agent, awan setia, but we did not expect out of the 59 qualified voters, 58 choose to give them a boot! it really show clearly how bad the impression the Vista resident have for awan setia. from the feedback of the residents, the main reason was poor management of residents' fund & maintenance of our facility.

residents have warned awan setia some time ago to improve their performance (last EGM in Oct'08), or else will be booted out. we did see some slight improvement in the 1st 2 months, in term of responsiveness & quality of work, unfortunately in the last 2 months, things back to square one, the 2 lift broke down at K-block is the last straw on the camel's back!

now we are talking to 3 managing agents for their proposal, most likely we will go with the company which are small one, abt RM5,300 managing fee per month. they will provide 2 workers (1 handy man & 1 clerk) for 9am to 5pm, another person from 5pm to 9pm, mainly for collection of maintenance fee, but also be able to attend to the emergency facility matter.

we do hope the new managing agent will perform better than awan setia, as they will be closely monitored by Vista residents, another reason is the communication will be better as the office will be in the Vista compound, resident can drop by any time to see them for various matter.

at the same time the JMB also appoaching security, cleaning, fogging, lift & other contractors for the new & better contract, if any1 of u can help us in this area, pls contact us or write to our email, vistajmb@gmail.com, u can even volunteer to be our commitee (carpark, security, miantenance/facility, fund management, community project), trust that ur contribution will bless the Vista residents.

let's work together, making Vista the better place for living.....

cheng/JMB

2nd Vista EGM (25/2/09)

The coming EGM will be significant one! first time in Vista history residents will have right to pick their preferred managing agent! JMB have been approaching few management company to send in their proposal, which will be presented to the residents on the EGM night for them to consider.

Pls do help us to spread the words around, encourage your fellow Vista residents to attend the meeting, we will discuss some other important matters, like painting of building, maintenance fee, & we believe on the night some residents will bring some good insight of how to make Vista a better place for living.

See u all.

Cheng/JMB

CNY Party

We would like to express our utmost thanks for those who hv joined the pary, we hope u hv enjoyed much the food, the fun, the game...but most importantly, we hope u hv established deeper relationship with ur fellow Vista residents, for this is the main purpose of the gathering. Here are some photos for ur viewing pleasure.....

CNY - Registration

CNY - Crowd

CNY - Crowd

CNY - eating orange

CNY - eating orange