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

Proper Perimeter Wall Fence Structure For Gated Development

Above are pictures taken at Desa Villa at Taman Desa (near Desa Water Park) of the gated and guarded housing development. The above perimeter wall fence surrounds the entire community which comprises less than 100 units of houses. The wall fence covers a big area of about at least 3/4 of the area of the wall fence area of Taman Mutiara Puchong. All of the gated and guarded housing development surveyed comprises of a very well structured, high and secured perimeter wall fence that is almost impossible to scale because of the height and the enhance security features as shown above.

This is the standard of a perimeter wall fence observed by most developers in Malaysia and how come Malton Bhd did not erect a perimeter wall fence that is supposedly safe and one that will keep intruders out? Currently if anyone was to pay us a visit and take one look at the perimeter wall fence, I can definitely expect a cynical smile or even laughter in disbelief by all. Why? Well because TMP perimeter wall fence is way below par when compared to others and so scalable and lowly erected that you will look at it in dismay and to ponder........what idiot could have done so? It is seriously the joke of Puchong, Selangor and definitely to the addage of "Malaysia Boleh".

Please refer to the previous posts for images of the perimeter wall fence of TMP.