Serving the neighborhood also like doing a charity job..

Keep an eye on the costing of maintenance works,
try to maximum the dollar value from the collections.

You will be dealing many selfish ppl like the owners as well as the other committee members whom has private agenda..

The major costing of a condo management were the water/TNB/security.

Repaint the building is last job to considered becos still got others like lifts maintenance especially when the buildings were nearby 10 years old and above.
Many things are going to breakdown...especially the E&E equipments..they are very costing.

My condo are pratising change the lighting to T5 instead of LED..The costing of LEDs are the most expensive one,we just used it for spot lights.

T5 is more effective in costing& energy saving. They can bring down about 40% from normal TNB bills.

LEDs are expensive 2~3 times but lifeband is slightly 20% higher than T5..

They are serving as a charity workers to the neighborhood...So is FOC

Some condos may have small meeting allowance or office bearer allowance.

We are doing more neighborhood friendly steps to encouraged more owners to get known to their neighborhood.

Announcement /notices are in three languages.Managements or owner meetings also in three languages.

Because many banana ppl using English only to prohibited others languages ppl to take participate so they can doing their own private interest agenda.

The best way is to employed a management company to take over daily jobs instead of JMC/MC,The Committee rules is to monitoring and decision maker.

Many mid or low cost condo/apt get to zero reserve fund problems are due to committees want to cut cost and kick off management company ,they themselves involved in daily jobs by hiring clerks to make the daily collections and supplies payment.
But corruption happened or miss use public funds...left out a lots shits ,they sold out their units..

Bye bye chaos!

Not 100% correct ...you mean reputation property management company also not guarantee.


KJ was wellknow before but they send rubbish ppl to handle your condo and charge you higher rate..

Three of my condo already kicked them off last year after so many times warning issued.

Your guys must beware of KJ. Their service standard getting poorer after the founders sold out their stakes ..

My condo site is paying $5000 management fees +
20K staffs salaries/allowance fixed...any OT fees incurred were bear by the company.

My condo has 7 blocks with 16 floors..Total units is 902. 10 years old.

The management company give us 2 floor desk clerk + 2 executies[account + admin] + 3 handymans + 1 technician + manager.

Many legal and insurance issues involved ,so better outsource to a licensed scurity company to handle.

By the way, our condo is paying $5.30 per hour rate to the company,we deployed 11 guards per sheet.

If you want like the desa park city quality guards ,min rate is,$8~9 per hour.

So our condo security cost is about 40k per month..

My advice

Try to get into committee, if you are new, just keep silent at first ,observed the management office ppl handling the jobs and the others old committee members...

Try to get as much infos and attend the monthly meetings then after about 6 months later,you roughly figure out who is the hantu..and who are helpful ppl.

Many hantu in committee...especially those banana ppl control committee..80% have hantu inside the committee...look after their private pocket not the community interest.

Even you are paying high rate to security company not mean you can what you need most becos they are human being..

So my experience you condo if have budget must also buck up your condo CCTV and door access system...because machines are more trustful than human..also can be traceable.

Nowadays many condo have break in cases...90% are insider job

Hi...

Welcome on board ...sharing infos...

My advise..

Try to be neighborhood friendly ..use 3 languages in condo bulletin notices..

Keep the residents informed , let them getting interest into knowing things JMC are doing.

Very useful link for JMC members

Building and Common Property(Maintenance and Management) Act 2007Act 663
http://www.hba.org.my/laws/building/bcpAct2007.htm

Not exactly..

Hire third party management to handle the daily jobs..
MC/JMC members are not suppose to involve in directly because of interest of conflict issues.

My condo have 7 blocks with about 900 units.
We have one basic swimming pool, tennis court,children playground,multipurpose hall with badminton courts inside.

We paid 5k management fees monthly plus about 23k fixed for staff salary.Staff OT allowances are borne by management agent company.

We are given 1 BM+1Admin+1 A/C+2 front desk clerks+ 1 chief tech+2 handymans.

According to the COB and the law of building and management.

Elected members are maximum 3 years/terms of service.

Although we are facing defict yearly but with give and take consideration.

We are giving out basic 1 month incentive[ purata] + 1 month performance incentive to selected staffs for their 2013 year performance.

We kick out KJ in 2012 Nov due to poor performance and costly staffs allowances.

We are using Focus Management,they are very low profile chinese run management company.But with certain numbers of condos managed so can sharing resources and experience among their sites .