Sin City Puchong

By Teoh El Sen December 03, 2008 Categories: News/Malay Mail Online



The residents do not want it, but Puchong could soon outstrip Chow Kit for the dubious distinction of being the most infamous red light district in the country.
Residents are furious the authorities have allowed the rapidly growing township to degenerate into a bustling haven for prostitution.
An official of the Subang Jaya Municipal Council, under which Puchong falls, confirmed vice activities have increased.
In recent weeks, the council closed down three vice dens, and it is just the tip of the problem.
"Apparently, prostitutes have moved from the city to Puchong. Prostitution used to be quite rampant in Subang Jaya, but now it seems Puchong has become the hotspot."
In the wake of the hookers have come other vices.
The official said the council was trying to check the vice activity by limiting permits for massage parlours, which usually turned into prostitution dens. To date, 40 permits for traditional massage outlets have been approved.

Councillor Gary Chong, dismayed that Puchong has recently been dubbed a "dirty" area, called for more drastic action against offenders.
"It is getting more serious. There have been a lot of illegal hotels that have been raided and closed down in recent months."
He said such illegal premises were mushrooming fast, citing Bandar Puteri as one of the places when he has found illegal massage parlours operating.

Seputeh MP Teresa Kok also wants sterner action taken.
She highlighted a case of two Chinese nationals who claimed they were forced to become prostitutes but escaped last Sunday after more than a week of being locked up and starved in a house in Taman Mutiara, Puchong.
"These girls, aged 21 and 19, had been deceived into thinking there were legal job opportunities here," said Kok, adding that the pair flew home to China at 4.50pm yesterday.

They had lodged a police report with the help of a local resident who spotted them wandering about after they escaped from their "prison".
Selangor police chief DCP Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar declined comment on the vice problems in Puchong.

Your Rights As A Property Owner

This article in the Sunday Times (30th November'08) is a good read and provides some insight into our local property industry.

Protection Not Guaranteed

Protection Not Guaranteed

The National House Buyers Association (HBA), an apolitical, housebuyers protection organisation is organizing a House Buyers Conference with the theme "Protection Not Guaranteed" for house buyers to confer and share their home acquiring experience.
According to its honorary secretary general, Chang Kim Loong, sweeping legislations to protect home-buyers and to promote home ownership have failed to follow through to ensure adequate protection for each and every homebuyer from stalled, abandoned, defective homes and the peaceful enjoyment of their homes.
"House buyers are never warned about the inadequate protection from buying a yet to be built home and most found out the hard way when things go wrong," he said. "Aggrieved house buyers are made to go from one department to another, resort to the media to highlight their plight, plead to the Prime Minister, seeking intervention of the Minister of Housing & Local Government and his Ministry, for a solution or worse go to court for justice."
This conference will also kick off a on a Malaysian "House Buyers' Bill of Rights". The Bill of Rights seeks to shift the mindset of industry players and decision makers towards pro-house buyers – because a home should have better protection than any other purchase.
The conference is organized by the National House Buyers Association and will be held at Putra World Trade Center (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 6th December, 2008 at 2.30pm. Participation fee is only RM15 per person.
For more information, please call 012 3345676 or 012-2524287 or check out the HBA website at www.hba.org.my

Jazzercise Class In TMP

We are please to inform all residents that starting from the 7th December 2008 (SUNDAY 8.30 AM - 9.30 AM)@ Central Park TMP, JAZZERCISE class will be available for registration on the spot on that day.

Monthly fees @ RM 40.00 and classes will be on every Sunday as mentioned 8.30 AM - 9.30 AM.

Please email here if you are interested providing your name and contact number or call Adeline @ 017 8866888.

Invite your neighbours or friends to join in as all are welcome.

Balairaya JKP Zone 9

As of today Jawatan Kuasa Penduduk Zone 9 has been officially launched. Please click here JKPZONE9 BLOG2U for more information.

JKP consists of residents volunteers from communities under the jurisdiction of the zone and in this case Zone 9 inlcudes:

Taman Mutiara Puchong
Taman Seri Puchong
Taman Perindustrian Puchong (Sek 1, 3, 5, 6)
Lake Edge

For issues related specifically to community grouses and complaints pertaining public amenities or common public area that is in need of maintenance or support to the above mentioned areas kindly forward your email to jkpzone9@gmail.com
You could also post your comments in JKP9 blog pertaining any issues you feel that needs attention or to share information to enable us to serve the community better.

Consider the JKP as a intermediary body between MPSJ and the residents associations/residents in the said zone, where collectively acting as a watchdog to ensure that issues of importance involving the community can be highlighted and resolved efficiently.

Address:
Balai Raya JKP Zone 9 MPSJ
Jalan Seri Puchong 7
Taman Seri Puchong 47100 (47160)
Selangor.

The said balairaya is for community use hence it is available to be used to host private fucntions like weddings,community activities social club gathering etc. Certain rental charge is required and for further information kindly contact:

Cik Rossalina @ 012-2634734 (Pembantu Pentadbir JKP Zone 9)

Fogging Exercise In TMP 6.11.2008

Recently in TMP the fogging exercise was completed to keep the mosquito population at bay temporarily as one of the many measures to maintain the healthy living concept in TMP, do take note that the fogging exercise was initiated and paid for by the RA through the collection of the monthly service fees.
Hence to all contributors, this is only but one of the many costs involved in maintaining TMP. I can also predict not in the distant future that we are required to also do some maintenance work on the perimeter wall fencing i.e. painting the grille and wall itself plus other repairs.
Another recently approved initiative is to have 7 road humps erected in designated areas after careful surveys done of the entire TMP area. This is to discourage the many drivers in TMP whom allegedly speeding very dangerously without any concern that they may one day knock into a child crossing the road to the park or maybe cycling along the roads in TMP.
The RA has opted to go ahead and be proactive in getting things done as MPSJ reply to the RA that they were unable to erect the road humps due to the fact that the said roads handover are yet to be completed (mind you this has been the same reason more than a year ago when the RA first applied to have these road hunps erected for the safety and well being of the residents).
Imagine the duration of time it takes to get things done or for the authority to compel the developer to act in a social responsible manner? Imagine if an accident was to happen in TMP, then what will the reaction be? You tell me?
Imagine if the RA was not formed then what will happen, if the well being was left to the authority and the developer? Hmmmmmmm.............. from all the ding dong they are involved in until today probably status quo.
The next project the RA will like to embark on as planned will be to construct the second entry lane, this is more complicated and the RA is currently pushing hard to get the approval from MPSJ. We have not heard any reply yet from MPSJ as this particular issue requires the regazetting of the said area to be used to carry out the said proposed dual entry lane. Very complicating but the ball is rolling and currently on the MPSJ side of it. The RA is prepared to fork out the amount for the said construction as this is for the benfit of all the residents in TMP but alas still the same old dilemma of waiting for a favourable reply (this proposal was submitted more than a year ago as well).
Stay tuned.........

House Buyer Dilemma in TMP (Phase 3)

This is an email I received today which is of a concern to all house buyers in Malaysia, something we should be aware of and be prepared in the future when dealing with any developer to ask the right questions to ensure that your rights as a house buyer is not easily trampled on and taken for granted and that you have all bases covered before signing any SPA.

Please read and if you know of more such home owners in Taman Mutiara Puchong facing the same predicament then please forward your email to mytmpcommittee@gmail.com as it is logical for these home buyers to get together and get the right representation to allow their grouses be heard by the proper authority that can assist in resolving this thorny issue.

EMAIL EXTRACT OF A VERY CONCERNED HOME BUYER IN TAMAN MUTIARA PUCHONG

Just to bring up an issue regarding my current difficult situation of purchasing the TMP unit. 6 months ago, I sign my SPA in the show room office and yet till now I still not getting my key to renovate my house. When I check with the developer (Interpile), they told me that it is because land office holding the consent of transfer. When I ask them what is the reason where land office holds the approval, they told me they have no idea.

Due to the frustration I personally go to land office to find out the issue, the officer told me that it is because that Interpile does not fulfil the land office requirement – Building Low Cost Houses and this was told to Interpile few months ago. Later when I call Interpile regarding this matter, they told me that they knew this issue and already settle (don’t know how they settle). I also find out that there are about 20 units same situation as me (some have sign SPA more than 9 months ago)

Now I get caught in the middle whereby one end hold the approval and the another end told me the issue has settle. Recently Interpile try to pursue me to change loan financier so that the money can disburse to them without the approval of the consent. I told them I have no problem to change my banker as long as on their end can guarantee the approval of the consent within 1 or 2 years. But at the end they told me they cannot promise me anything, they can only release the key for me to renovate and stay upon banker release the disbursement but no guarantee on the consent approval (which mean money disburse to them but legally the house still not belong to me).

I believe some of the existing resident or owner of TMP house face the same problem (money disburse to developer but till now the title still not charge to owner or banker). Therefore I would like to use your blog to gather some of these owners (who may concern on their title or charge of property) to discuss further.

By the way, I also one of your frequent reader for Voice of TMP.

Thanks and Regards,
Walter Yong

Security Enhancement Exercise Phase 2

The image posted above is the security tag for each household to be displayed prominently and to be placed on the gate. The security tag is only for prompt service fee payee in Taman Mutiara Puchong.

This is a necessary step and truly unavoidable as such a measure will ensure fairness to all the prompt paying residents in Taman Mutiara Puchong. The security personnel will only provide their full service for households displaying such a tag when the exercise is completed. This exercise will be executed soon and will be completed before the end of October 2008. The management office is currently making the necessary preparation to ensure smooth execution and tabulating the necessary data for the purpose of such an exercise.

When the exercise kicks off, volunteers from the RA will visit households whom are prompt payee with the security tags and will attached these tags accordingly, a form will have to be filled providing the management office with the latest data pertaining to the number of cars and their respective registration and further checks on number of access cards etc will be carried out. This is to ensure that the data collected will be used to update the database currently in hand to have the latest and most updated information to ensure that the management office do have in hand the necessary information to carry out their duties to the upmost.

House owners will have to acknowledge the receipt of these tags accordingly when these visits are made to ensure minimum abuse of these tags. These tags are provided free of charge.

The recent access card barring exercise have been successful in ensuring that the majority of the residents in TMP act in a responsible manner and to maintain the security level consistent with a gated and guarded community. There are still a lot more to be desired but small steps are being taken to ensure that the welfare and well being of all law abiding residents will be protected and fairness plus firmness exercised on those that are irresponsible and ignorant.

It is important to note that the majority of incidents of residents not complying with the silk screening of the access cards and car sticker exchange are mainly from tenants due to the fact that their landlords are not making any effort to comply with the terms and conditions stipulated in the DMC they signed during the purchase of the property. Tenants are advised to do the following as observed in many cases elsewhere:

1. Immediately discuss the matter with your landlord and to arrange for the landlord to comply with the silk screening exercise and to purchase the necessary additional access cards for your use but do note that the landlord have the right to impose a deposit fee for these cards and refundable upon expiry of the tenancy provided access cards in good working condition.
2. If the said landlord is not available and not convenient for them to carry out the exercise then please arrange by mutually agreeing that the cost of the service fee be deducted from the next rental payment or mutually agree on a win win formula. Receipts are issued hence there is documentary proof if any disagreement arise.

Other measures the management company will put in place will be a notice board in TMPCC listing all defaulters in TMP with appropriate remarks to highlight status and action taken accordingly. Currently many legal notices have been served already to errant owners and awaiting response before further action is taken.

All residents owners and those owners who rent out their unit whom have neglected their duty by defaulting should really make a conscientious effort to be more caring and responsible to ensure the long term sustainability of the community in TMP.

Selfishness is never a good quality and one should have a broader mindset as more is always achieved when in a "TEAM" - Together Everybody Achieves More".

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