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...

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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!

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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....

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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...

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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.....

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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

CNY - children game

CNY - children game

CNY - Prize giving