general updates as at 3/1/16

hi, first of all Happy New Year to our beloved residents, pray & hope that in the year 2016 we continue to receive God's blessing & favor, as He did for us in the previous years, especially those big projects like water tanks & lift upgrade....:)

there's some updates for our residents,

water tanks, the installation of the new water tanks is at the phase of completion now, so far out of the total 10 water tanks, 9 water tanks already be replaced, the only one water tank which going to be replaced is the blk K ground floor water tank, it should be done in one week's time, after that we will test all these new water tank for a period of time, then call state gov't state technical people to inspect, then once everything confirmed OK, we will organize a thanksgiving party to thank the state gov't for their contribution on the project :):):)

new building supervisor, the new person has reported to work last week, his name is Mr Jasmin, to replace the old supervisor Mr Rahman, the office clerk still remain the same Mr Ishak, the replacement of the supervisor is requested by many of our residents due to certain reason, and we welcome our residents to continue to monitor the office staffs' performance and feedback to us their opinion.

sinking fund, starting January 2016, the office will collect monthly RM10 from every unit for the new sinking fund, this is according to the resolution passed by the residents in the AGM in November, the purpose of the new sinking fund is for our 20% contribution for any big projects in Vista Condo which funded by state gov't by 80%, for residents information, this year we will approach state gov't for another big project, all the main water pipe which channel the water from the roof top water tank all our the residential unit, in total there 16 main water pipe we are planning to change, amounting to few hundred thousand Ringgit, hope that God will grant us this favor....

thanks.

new line up of MC

this is the new line up of MC 2015/16

Chairman : Mr Megam (K-6-8)
Treasurer : Mr Morgan (K-16-3)
Secretary : Mr Tan (J-10-3)

Committee members :
Deva (K-10-4)
Cheng (J-11-6)
Isma (J-16-6)
Poh (J-13-4)
Raman (K-17-5)


Trust that our residents will continue to support the MC committee to do the good job :)

BTW, the blog will continue after Christmas as the admin will be away for holidays :):):)

thanks.

new chairman, new secretary, new treasurer tonight....

tonight the new MC members will meet to decide on the new office bearers, one thing for sure is there will be new chairman, new treasurer & new secretary for the new term, as Cheng, Deva & Selva will would not be holding the said positions as per new ruling in the strata title act.

in the way, the will be new leadership to manage the matter in Vista Condo pertaining to the management & facilities, and we believe that the new leadership will do even better job than the old MC leadership, we also believe that the Vista Condo residents will continue to give their support to the new leadership, so that they will be encouraged & do the good jobs for the benefits of our believed residents.

one last note, for this Vista Condo blog, they may want to decide if this blog will continue to serve our residents, if yes, then they will need to appoint a new admin to write the article, so this may be the last article written the existing admin shall they decide to appoint a new admin :)

thanks.

new MC line up, new Sinking Fund, new Project

AGM was held smoothly on the Saturday evening, started at 8.30pm & ended at abt 10.30pm.

we would like to thank those who made an effort to attend despite of bad weather, but also understand that some residents wanted to attend but can't make it due to various reasons, overall it was a fruitful meeting with our residents.

3 major decisions made during the AGM,

first, there will be collection of RM10 each unit every month starting January 2016 as the new Sinking Fund, the purpose of having this new sinking fund is to get ourselves ready shall state gov't give approval to our future request in those major repair or upgrade on our facilities such as lifts, water tanks, main pipes & building repainting, as you know we need to contribute 20% of the total cost as the state gov't will bear 80% for low medium cost apartment like Vista Condo.

second, the residents also voted to go ahead to apply fund from the state gov't to replace all the main water pipe which channel water from the roof top water tanks to each unit, in total there are 16 main pipes need to be replaced, we estimate the total cost is amounting to about RM400K, so if we obtain the approval to proceed then we can expect state gov't to absorb abt RM320K & we need to get abt RM80K ready, so this is one of the purpose we set up the new Sinking Fund.

third, residents also have chosen new MC committee members, they are J-16-6 (Isma), J-13-4 (Ah Poh), J-10-3 (Tan), J-11-6 (Cheng), K-16-3 (Morgan), K-17-5 (Ramon), K-10-4 (Deva), K-6-8 (Megam), total is 8, the new MC members will meet to decide on the new office bearers, namely chairman, secretary & treasurer, also the unofficial office bearers such as vice chairman, internal auditor & financial controller, we trust that new MC team will do the good job for our beloved residents :)

may God will give more blessing to Vista Condo in the coming years, thanks.

updates as at 21/11/15

some matters to update our beloved residents,

Water Tank Project - the first 2 old water tanks at blk k had been removed completely, the removal of another 2 old water tank at blk J also almost done, according to the main contractor, next week the another group of workers will come in to install the new water tank, 2 for blk k first, then follow by 2 water for blk j, pray & hope that everything will happen smoothly.

AGM - friendly reminder for our residents that the AGM will be held on 28/11/15, 8pm at the foyer, the highlight will be choosing the new MC committee, we welcome residents to nominate the capable peoples to be in the new lineup, off course the existing committee members are still eligible for the election, but 2 of them (Cheng & Deva) cannot be office bearer (chairman, secretary or treasurer) anymore because they have been the office bearer for max 2 term, so this time they can only be an ordinary committee member if chosen.

Passing of lift technician - we wish to express our deepest condolences to the family of one of the lift technician who came to fix our lift problem regularly, Mr Nasir for his passing on Friday morning, in fact many of our residents have seen him in both Blk J & K to settle our lift problem, he & his boss Mr Samsudin have served our lift well all these years, Mr Samsudin is taller & look tougher, Mr Nasir is shorter person out of this two, we feel sad for losing this great person who attended to the lift problem at his level best all this while :(

see you all in the AGM, thanks.

no posting this week

hi,

no posting this week, will continue next week.

thanks.

AGM on 28/11/15

This is to inform our beloved residents that the AGM will be held in the last last Saturday of November, 28/11/15, 8pm at the foyer area.
After half an hour from 8pm, if numbers of residents turn up still not enough to form the quorum, then those who present will automatically form the quorum, which means the AGM will still be held on the same night regardless of the number of residents we have after half an hour.

Few important matters we will discuss with our residents, just like to highlight 2 of them here,

1) New MC committee, some of the committee already serve to the maximum term, and need to give way to the new members, especially those who office as chairman, treasurer & secretary for 2 term, need to give way for other peoples, but wither they are eligible to be elected as ordinary committee member of MC but not holding office bearer position, we will need to check again with the authority.

2) New sinking fund, we will ask residents’ opinion abt the proposal to collect RM10 per month per unit to form the new sinking fund, so that in the future when we approach state gov’t for financial help on those project such as lift upgrade, or main pipe replacement, or repainting of building, etc, we will be ready to pay the 20% of the cost as under the 80%/20% arrangement, the state gov’t will absorb 80% of the total cost but we got to pay the 20% first.

See u guys in the AGM….

Thanks.

have you seen those old water tank?

some residents get the shock when they saw the old water tank panel at the blk K ground floor...

this is just the first water tank which has been dismantled & sent down from the roof top, as at the moment the vendor are dismantling the second unit, rough calculation, to dismantle a water tank took about 4 days, but we expect they will do the faster job in the future as they have gained some good understanding by dismantling the first water tank.

well, the reason of the residents reaction when they saw the old water tank is the condition of the water tank, so dirty, rusted, broken, bad bad bad shape....

imagine some of residents have been drinking the water without filtering it, and this is the main reason we push for the new water tank, we wish it can been done much earlier than now, but the arrangement is beyond our control as we need state gov't to approve & residents' cooperation to pay service charge so that we can pay our 20% of contribution in order to get the work order from the concerned department, we have done our level best and we can only encourage ourselves that the new water tank project is really late but still better than never...

let's learn some precious lesson from this, & we would like to propose to our residents in the coming AGM (will be held on 28/11/15) that RM10 per month will be collected from every unit, to be saved as Vista Sinking Fund, and this Fund will be used for the gov't funded project which based on 80%/20% (gov't pay 80%, residents pay 20%), so that when the gov't approve those project then we can proceed immediately our 20%, so that the project can be started as soon as possible without wasting too much time like water tank project, for information, it took more than half a year for us to get ready of the 20%......

talk about the future project, some of them will be common water pipe for domestic water supply, building repainting, blk j lifts upgrade (blk k lifts already completed 2 years ago), etc.

thanks.

work in progress, and hiccup too....

the water tank project has started since early of this week, the workers have taken abt 2 days to do the piping at the roof top of blk K, the purpose is so that after they dismantle the first 2 water tanks, the water will continue to supply all the unit in blk K.

the new water tank material were shipped in on Wednesday, residents should have noticed those gray color FRP panel laid at the ground floor for few days, on Friday the workers have managed to bring all these material to the roof top, now waiting for the first 2 water tank to be dismantled completely then install the one immediately.

the arrangement will be 2 water tanks from blk k roof top to be dismantled then fix the new water tanks at the same site immediately, after that another 2 water tanks from roof top to be replaced then the last one will be the reservoir at the ground floor. If they have enough manpower then the same process will be running simultaneously at both blk J & K.

well, the small hiccup during the first week of this water tank project.... :(

when the workers release the water from the first 2 water tank at blk K roof top, the water suppose to flow through the drain pipe gutter to the ground floor & dispersed to the main drain, but unfortunately when the water reached the 8th flr, some of that flow into the corridor area & cause small flood, and went to one of the lift as well, the staff immediately get the cleaner to clear the water & called the lift technician to check the lift (even though it still can run), the lift technician report some part in the lift car top is wet & advised to shut down one lift for a day to wait for it to dry, so one lift was out of order from Thursday afternoon to Friday afternoon, but now it's back to normal already.

another incident is when the worker remove the level sensor from the first 2 water tanks, some parts of old wire got bent & eventually caused the contact problem, as the result the pump stop running at the early hour on Friday, and caused water supply interruption for abt half an hour in the Saturday morning, few blk K committee received the complaint at 9am & immediately attended to it & water supply was back at abt 9.30am, on the same day we asked the vendor to check & they have rectified the wiring problem, but we still like to ask our residents to help us to monitor the water pressure in your house, if you feel that the pressure is lower than usual then pls alert the office staff immediately, thanks.

....really pray & hope that no more hiccup again.... :P

thanks.

water tank project starts at October :)

some little updates concerning the water tanks project...

this coming Monday, 19/10/15, 9pm we will be meeting with the water tank vendor at the foyer to finalise the installation schedule for both Blk J & K, total 10 water tanks to be fixed at the roof top & ground floor pump room area.

we were told that the new water tank parts & materials will be arrive this coming week, and according to the proposed schedule of vendor, they can installed few days after arrival of the parts, as they need some times to dismantle the existing water tanks.

but we thought we need to check in detail all the proposal pertaining to the schedule, and our first priority is there should not be any water interruption during the installation process, to ensure this happen, we got to insist that after they have dismantle one water tank, they should immediately install a new one at the same site.

another thing we need some assurance from them is plan B, which means in case of "somethings" happen, then what is their contingency plan, we will try our best to anticipate all the possible situation, and ask them to suggest redemption action shall that thing happen, but of course we hope that there's no surprise (the negative one)

above all, we need God's blessing on the project, let's pray..... :)

thanks.

challenging old facilities matter - main pipe outside your house

after the new water tanks project, what next?

believe that most of the residents will say is building repainting, we can understand that, but if we go by the principle of "safety first", then some old facilities which can post some safety hazard are worth considering too...

one particular area is those main pipes which connect the water from the roof top water tank to the all the unit of Vista Condo, you can notice these main pipe easily, just outside your unit, the big top down pipe next to your PBA meter.

in fact, all these main pipes haven't been changed since the construction of Vista Condo, which means they have reached 20 years of age, and since few years ago, we have been receiving report of these pipe burst or leaking, serious case like water flooded the corridor & resident's house, not so serious one is just caused the floor near the leaked pipe wet.

normally what we did is to get the plumber to tie around the leak area with metal bracket with another layer of plastic-like material to stop the water from flowing out, while this method works but before long other section of the same pipe will have the problem too, in short, the pipes are near to the near of their life span :(

another concern of these main pipes is the inner part of the pipe may have rusted badly, we also worry this may affect the water quality which use by our residents everyday, so for this reason we always encourage residents to install a water filter, at least for the drinking one.

after the water tank project is completed, we will call an EGM for residents to decide what should be the next project which we will approach state gov't to help on the 80/20 basis, by the way we will call an AGM either this month end or early next month, we welcome residents to share with us their suggestion.

thanks.

updates as at 04/10/15

few matters like to update our beloved residents....

1) water tank development, just got some info from vendor that he has ordered the new water ranks & related parts, estimated arrival date is 26/10/15, which is 2 weeks later than we expected, reason being is his own supplier need more time to prepare, we hope that by end of October all the parts will be arrive here safely.

2) rental car park lot, we were informed by management office that still 4 lots available for renting out to our residents, so anyone interested to rent the parking for their 2nd car pls approach management office for that, first come first serve basis, rental is RM50 per month, first payment is 3 months rental in advance. (just in case the management again tell you no lot available, pls email us immediately & we will deal with the matter with no delay)

3) vendor performance, past few months we have changed 3 vendor/company, namely cleaning service, electrician & security guard, we are still observing their performance, meanwhile we would like to ask help from our residents to monitor them too, so that we can take necessary action to help them to do the better job, many thanks in advance for you guys' help on this.

best regards.

water tank work order confirmed!

just like to share with our residents that the work order (inden kerja) for our water tank project is already confirmed & signed by YB Yeoh Soon Hin, which means the work order is officially valid & for this the vendor will get a copy, they should be able to proceed with the necessary arrangement with this official document.

we expect they will soon order those part & material from their own supplier, should take abt 2 weeks according to our last discussion with them, which means parts can be arrived in Penang middle of October, with the parts they will immediately dismantle the existing water tank, in the manner that after one old water tank dismantled, they will immediately replace with the new water at the same location, it takes abt 1 weeks to complete one water tank if weather is good, in order to speed up the whole process, they may want to do for both Blk J & K simultaneously if got sufficient manpower from their company.

so, if everything REALLY REALLY goes smoothly then we can expect the whole to be completed by December, so let's pray & hope for the favorable condition for the work, especially the weather, well, just an advance notice, after the project is done, we will organize a thanksgiving party (just like previously done for main entrance shade & blk k lift upgrade) to the state gov't, and at the same time to ask them for other project funding :)

let's pray for God's favor upon Vista Condo.

beware of rabies!

as some of our vista residents may have already know abt the rabies outbreak, or in layman term mad dog disease, which has caused a big concern in the Northern Malaysia, as so far already some confirmed cases in Penang, Perlis & Kedah.

well, as the state gov't decided to get rid of the stray dogs by killing them, and protested by some animal loving NGO, we will leave it to them to argue abt should (or should not) killing the stray dogs in Penang (abt 2.5K of them!), but some suggestion we will like to present to our residents.

do kindly alert the office or guard on duty if you see any stray dogs hanging around in Vista Condo or the road outside our compound, office number is 019-5730637 & guard house number is 017-4290637, also can contact MPPP at 04-2637000, pls don't try to chase the dogs away by yourselves unnecessarily, but rather pls keep yourselves away from them, especially the children, pls do advice your kids on this too.

(in fact this virus can be passed through cats too, so the same suggestion also applied for the stray cats)

for residents who are keeping dogs & cats in their unit, pls do see your VET for advice, heard that rabies vaccine will be (or perhaps is ready) made available in Penang, so for sake of your own safety, do kindly visit the VET for this.

rabies can be deadly if not treated immediately, let's do our bit to prevent it.

thanks.

general updates as at 12/9/15

hi,

few matters to update our beloved residents,

1) water tank, we have passed our 20% (or RM81,000) for the water tank project to state treasury dept, out of this 81K, 45K is the existing water tank trade price, 15K is interest free loan from the vendor, & another 21K from our management account. we expect the state planning dept will issue the work order in one week's time and thereafter the vendor will start the project. estimation of completion is 3 to 6 month depending the condition of the weather.

2) cleaners, the previous cleaning company have resigned from doing the service in our place due to the fine of the mosquitoes larvae issue, the new company have started their service early September, their job scope is at the same as the previous one, at the moment we are monitoring their job quality, residents do help to feedback us your observation.

3) gutter clips, the vendor has finally completed the project of fixing the new clips on those gutters which needed the new clips, we want to thank our residents especially those who willing to give access
to the vendor for fixing the clips, but as we have asked the office staff to monitor all the gutters in Vista Condo, we also encourage our residents to report to the office as soon as possible if detect any problem concerning the drain pipe gutters.

4) AGM, now we are planning to call an AGM as soon as the audit report is completed, should be somewhere October or November, will keep residents updated concerning this.

thanks.

we see the money now!

yesterday the water tank vendor passed to the office a big cheque, amount RM60k, out of that, RM45k is for the existing water tank trade in, and RM15k an interest free loan for the same project :)

we asked the office to delay no more but bank in the cheque immediately, which they did. we expect the floating days of 2 to 3 days then the money should be made available for us on next Wednesday, then we should quickly issue the banker's cheque amounting to RM81k as our portion of 20% to the state gov't so that they will issue the work order to the water tank to start the project, we hope all these can be done next week, or if not then completed the following week.

honestly we have a very mixed feeling now, at one hand we are excited abt Vista Condo going to have the new water tanks, but at the same time also worry if there's any hiccup during the installation process, which is really beyond our control, so we only can keep reminding the vendor to carry out the project properly & consider all the possible situation, and come out with the contingency plans shall something happen.

vendor's estimation is this project will take abt 3 months if everything goes smoothly, the main factor will be the weather, but as long as the rain is not too heavy then the workers can still do the jobs, so we hope that rain does come to chase away the haze but not too heavy until the water tanks can't be installed :):):)

hope for the best, prepare for the worst, we pray & hope that this project will be completed smoothly so that our residents will enjoy much better water quality soon!

Just back from BERSIH...

guys, no posting this week as admin just back from a rally at KL, then busy to clear some work backlog as few days missing in action due to joining the rally, won't be able to post any article this week, very sorry & will write to our residents again next weekend.

finally, breakthrough for water tank :)

finally, there's a breakthrough concerning the water tank, now we have all the MC bearers (namely chairman, vice chairman, treasurer & secretary) signed on the water tank installation & interest free loan agreements! this is a big step towards the installation of the 10 new water tanks at Vista Condo :)

we have forwarded the signed copies of agreement to the vendor few days ago, he also brought the installer to do the final viewing of the water tank site for their final planning for installing the water tanks, understand from them that the project should be carried out as planned earlier but they may want to suggest some better idea of how to maximize of the volume of the water tank at the ground floor, this will be brought to MC for them to consider.

now we are waiting for the vendor to channel in the money, RM45k for the existing water tank trade in & RM15 interest free loan, we expect the money will come in this coming week, then together with our saving of RM21k, it should make up to RM81k to be deposited into state gov't treasury dept as our part of 20% contribution for the project.

(just to recap, Vista Condo has been recognized by state gov't as LMC (low medium cost apartment) which enjoy the privilege of state gov't financial aid on those major repairing project like change main pipe, lift or water tanks, under the arrangement of 80% - 20%, state gov't give 80% & residents give 20%, as for the water tank project total cost is RM405K, our 20% contribution is RM81K)

we hope the project can be started at the end of September as the vendor need to order the part & material from his own supplier, if everything go smoothly then it may take 3 months to complete the installation, but if the weather not too friendly then need one or two months more...., for whatever situation it may be, MC will try our best to make sure there's no water supply interruption during the installation, really hope for the smooth ride :)

let's pray.....

confirmed deal? false hope?

again, we are given another opportunity to proceed with the water tank project, but will this time we can make it a confirmed deal or just another false hope like early June? where our saving then was sufficient for the project but last minute need to channel the money to replace the concealed under ground bomba pipe due to it's urgency.

after 2 months, now we are again in the right financial position to proceed with this project, and even closer than early June because the 2 agreements (water tank installation agreement & interest-free loan amount RM15K agreement) have been forwarded to us & already signed by most of the MC office bearers, we should wait for one more signature then vendor will channel in the money 60K (45k for advance payment for the old water tanks trade in & 15k for interest free loan) then together with our saving of 21K we should issue the banker's cheq amounting to 81K as 20% contribution from our side for the gov't to issue work order for the vendor to start the project.

after what happened in June where the project failed to proceed, so now we dare not to promise to our residents that the project will definitely start soon, still some uncertainties need to face, like will we get the complete office bearer signature? will all the office bearers agree with project? will there be another last minute urgent repair work need us to spend the money for it first? will gov't still wait for us after so many months after the approval has given? etc etc....

we should know the answer in this coming Sunday evening MC meeting, we do hope signatures will be complete & committee will have full agreement to proceed, shall this happen then we will quickly get the vendor to give us the 60K big cheq for us issue another banker's cheq 81K to the gov't, but will it happens that smoothly? hope so....

let's see.....

defaulters are the culprits!

recently we urge the management office to make sure they will put up the defaulters' list at the notice board, and they did it for 3 consecutive months already.

each time we look at the defaulters list, we thought it's quite disgusting, a bit strong term here, but then if we look the consequences of their irresponsibility in this area, we know that to be called disgusting is too light the term....

especially at the moment when the water tank project need to drag until now due to lack of fund as the result of their not-paying bad behavior, residents need to use those not-so-clean water to bath & wash their clothes & dishes, and even if some of resident don't have the water filter, then they got to drink from this water which may cause health problem, we really feel that it's quite disgusting.

(water tank project should be proceed soon as we have now managed to save enough fund after paid up the bomba pipe project, pending for MC approval this coming meeting)

we don't know what is in their mind, some defaulter actually are staying in Vista Condo too (some just rent their unit out to their tenants), in order to continue to live as debtors, their rather park their vehicle at the roadside but choose not to pay service charge, but when go check their units, you still see few aircond & astro were installed, we are not convinced that they are so poor until can't pay service charge.

we also notice that most of them are having their family members staying with them here in Vista Condo, and they spouse & kids also using the not-so-clean water for washing their stuffs, it's very selfish to let the family members to suffer the consequence of their irresponsibility.

of course it's definitely not fair for the good paymasters, because of the defaulters, they can't enjoy the better condition of the existing facilities, such as lift, water tank, car park, swimming pool, etc, sigh....!

defaulters, when are they going to wake up? at the end they still need to pay the outstanding service charge even with the interest when they sell their house or need to use their car park (or later on when we got enough money to install the lift T&G system), their irresponsible behavior have created harm for everyone, include themselves & their family but benefits nobody.

hope they realize this.

Vista Condo property value

one of the main challenge for the MC is to keep the value of the Vista Condo property to march the market value as other similar apartment in this nearby area.

for the 700 sqft apartment in Bayan Baru & Bayan Lepas area, those low density one can be sold as much as RM350k to RM400k like our neighbor Villa Condo, even Desa 2 also can fetch abt RM380 for the higher floors, but lower floors abt RM300K, Vista Condo at the moment selling in between RM300K & RM330K, which is still higher than many poorly maintained 700 sqft apartment but we can't take things likely or else our value can't catch the market trend.

one thing we are doing now is to keep the number of foreigner hostels as low as possible, we know that it's very hard to get rid of all the hostel, but we manage to keep it below 5 then it should be quite ok, we can't afford to let our apartment to be another flat 88 or those apartment behind the Relau Public Bank, the number of the foreigner hostels is so high until the property value of these apartment are abt 50K to 100K below the market value!

we also pay special attention to the very important facilities, which will affect our day to day living, especially the lifts, water tanks, the pumps, etc. we do notice that some of the apartment in Penang do face the lift problem on the regular basis, and news spread very fast with the help of internet, things such as all the lifts can't function so residents need to climb staircase for many weeks, even months, or water tank leak so badly until many part of corridor or house can't be used...one common abt these apartment is, their property is greatly affect by the malfunctioning of the important facility. our preventive action for the mentioned problem is to make sure our SC collection is sufficient to maintain & improve the existing facilities, and maintain good term with government & insurance agent so that when need them to help us on those major repair then we know where to run to :P

we believe if Vista Condo continue to be well maintained, the value will continue to soar as we are located at the very strategic location, near to industrial zones, shopping places like Queensbay mall/tesco/giant/sunshine, learning institutes & schools, also the 2 bridges, airport, durian haven balik pulau, even travel to town or even northern part of Penang also not even 45 min :)

thanks.

general updates as at 25/7/15

hi,

few updates for our beloved residents,

1) foreigners' hotels: since the RM500 per month for the monthly service has been reinforced, some progress is made, we received report that 2 blk J hostels have moved out in June, and today another 2 more hostels from blk K are moving out too. so the total number of the foreigner's hostels at the moment is 14 unit, we hope that more units will be moved out in the near future and be able to keep the number below 5 unit in total by year end.

concerning those units which still occupied by the foreigner workers, sad to say that until now the landlord are not willing to pay the service charge, but anyway we are not going to compromise on this matter, so next time when the landlord decide to move in or rent it to other peoples who need the parking lot, then they will need to pay the outstanding service charge (RM500 per month) plus the interest, which can be quite sizable as it's started from May 2015.

2) drain pipe gutter clip: past few weeks the vendor managed to fix 18 clips for the gutter, especially those out of shape gutters, the challenge still remain the same as before, ie some house owners either not at home or didn't let the vendors to come in to fix the gutter clip, we want to thank those residents who had let the vendor to use their balcony to fix the new gutter clip, we also hope more cooperation can be given for the safety of all the residents in Vista Condo, at the moment he with the building supervisor are still trying to approach our residents for the project until all the gutters are securely locked at the wall.

3) new water tank: sorry for the delay, as last month the committee decided to give the bomba pipe replacement a higher priority than water tank, due to safety reason, so as more than RM10,000 needed for the bomba pipe replacement, the water tank will need to wait for fund to built up again, we hope that this coming 1 week can collect 12K so that by month end we will have enough money to deposit into gov't account the 20% in order to start the project, we welcome if residents would like to pay few months in advance service charge so that the project can be started as early as possible.

thanks.

no posting this week (Raya Holiday)

hi,

no posting this week as most of the MC members are busy bring family out for holidays, will resume next week.

wish everyone in Vista Condo selamat hari raya & enjoy your holidays.

drive safely.

best regards.

beware of theft!

past few weeks we have received some complaints from residents concerning personal belongings went missing within their compound, in between the main doors & grill doors have gone missing, stolen items mainly are shoes, relatively new & more expensive shoes.

normally after we have heard this kind of complaint, we would try to find out from them roughly what date & time the event took place, and try our best to check the CCTV, but too bad almost every time we couldn't get the culprit because as long as the person(s) don't use the lift after stole the items then there's no way we can get him.

we did come across few incidents that items went missing at the ground floor common areas, and most of the time we can find the thieves & get the CCTV video clip for police to take further action, as most of the ground floor common area are covered by CCTV, but if items gone missing at corridor areas then not much can be done.

in fact according to our experience, most of the cases are committed by our own residents or tenants, we believe after they have stolen the items from residents' main entrance (or corridor), they will use the staircase to go back to their own units, so as the corridors & staircase are the blind spot of CCTV then their cowardly action won't be recorded :(

our advice is, keep those more costly items in the house or inside the shoe rack (make sure the shoe rack is out of reach if someone try to open it out the grill door), because the management can't do much unless we install CCTV at all the corridor but it's impossible at the moment as the cost is very very very high.

let's beware of the thieves, thanks.

next safety project - tighten the gutter clip

after bomba pipe replacement, now we are proceeding to another safety project, to tighten as many as possible Vista Condo new gutter clip.

the gutters are those drain pipe which channeling all the roof top water to the ground floor, all these while we are monitoring them, for these gutter already reached their 20 years of age, few gutters fell in the past, which we have replaced them with the new one, we also replaced some of those about to fall, according to our record, we have fixed at least 5 new gutters since yr2010, and have done 2 times tightening the gutter clip project but not very successful.

the reason we tighten the gutter clips is those clips are old & can no longer hold the gutter to the wall effectively, and if we don't fix the new clips then before long the gutter will be out of shape & increase the risk of falling down when pressure built up, through strong wind & big amount of rain water flowing through it, so to tighten the clip (or putting the new clip) is needed to be done periodically.

so this time, we have received few quotations for the new clips, view the samples, discussed over it, and now have decide to proceed if possible this coming week, but based on the past experience, this going to be a challenge, not because of technical issue, but due to some residents' attitude.

twice in the past we have planned & arranged for the vendor to try to access to the residents' balcony to fix the new clip, but even though with sufficient advance notice, many residents choose not to open the door for our supervisor & vendor to enter their premises to fix the clip at the gutter next to their balcony, and also some of residents went away from their house even tough they told the office they will be at home to wait for vendor to come to their house.... :(

so this time, as we feel that we need to fix the clip especially for those higher risk one (pls note that not all the clip need to be replaced, but only certain clip, for which we will inform the unit owner through notices), we hope our residents will be more cooperative this time, after all this is about the safety benefits of the Vista Condo residents.

thanks.