I as one of the hopeful housebuyer along with some 2000 people attended the balloting for the Rimbayu CHIMES launch on March 1st at Holiday Villa in Subang Jaya. While the process of balloting looked very orderly and professionally done, I am extremely dissapointed with the number of allocated units.

There were easily 500 houses in this first phase of 22x75 and 24x75 double storey terrace houses. I understand from a friend that IJM land already did they internal balloting among their staff for 60 units 2 weeks ago. If so, there should be at least 400 houses to be balloted (if say the directors took houses for themselves as well). I along with many other balloters were shocked that they stopped at 118 houses only. They say the rest is for bumiputra allocation. This does not make sense at all! How can there be 70% allocated for bumiputra? I think company insiders have booked in blocks leaving very few to be openly balloted for the hopefulls spending their weekend bringing their RM10,000 bank drafts.

This to me is un-ethical of a company to do this. Why do balloting when you have only 20% of the houses to be sold while the rest have been booked by the insiders? Bad on IJM Land!