I was interested to buy a unit(as investment) about 6 months ago. After reading so much mixed comments on this forum, I decided to see things with my own eyes before judging.
Therefore, I acted as buyer and make appt with SA to survey their completed project in Kuchai Lama(Arte Kuchai Lama).
OMGGGGGGGGGG. Let me just explain this in details on why you SHOULD NOT purchase property from this developer(pls excuse my bad english):
1) Upon entering the condo, I saw a bunch of *ahem*foreigner girls dressed improperly walking out from the guard house.
Let's be frank here, I'm 200% sure they are prostitutes who reside in Arte Kuchai Lama.
Who would want to purchase a RM800k-RM1.2m condo when ur neighbours could be them?
2) Once entered, I'm met by a rather weird looking lobby(with all the funny poor quality 'artsy' decoration).
Since the lobby wasn't enclosed, the surrounding was pretty dirty with all the dust and stain on those artsy plastic chairs and coffee tables.
They did not even try to clean up the place at all based on my observation.
This project is ready to stay for at least 6 months from my visiting date and they didn't even bother to sweep the goddamn floor? Terrible terrible upkeep.
3) SA did a brief orientation of the condo facilities. The swimming pool was mediocre and the gym room was worse than my college gym room.
Function room was huge but nothing to shout about. RM0.25 psf is fucking ripoff for such limited facilities.
Let's not mention about cleanliness too. Everything is either dusty or with algae stains.
4) SUPER SUPER SUPER ugly and dirty corridor that looks exactly like a low-cost flat corridor.
They don't even have an emergency DOOR. Just emergency staircase with NO DOOR. Just like those high school staircase LOOOOOOL.
5) Inside the unit. HUGE ASS living room. Tiny kitchen. Parquet flooring for ALL THE ROOMS.
LMAOOOOO the huge PAPAN that block half of your balcony view. OMG that's really sad and it's not removable too.
So many mini decoration holes on the papan imagine cleaning them during CNY. HUAT AHHHHHHHHH~~
Conclusion: TBH, I could go on forever debating reasons for not buying Nusmetro projects but I'm gonna cut it short.
They have terrible management.
They don't care about upkeeping the condo.
They don't even care who is renting the condo(many chickens).
Their art concept/facade is nice on the brochure but not in the reality.
If only they use GOOD QUALITY material, things could look a whole lot different.
Basically, you think you are buying an apple, but the end product you are getting is a banana. A rotten banana.
This MIGHT happen to Arte Mont Kiara.
Cheers