I am interested to know what does the JMB of your condo do when they are faced with stubborn, stingy and inconsiderate owners not wanting to pay up outstanding maintenance fees?

it is the responsibility of every owner to pay your maintenance fee as promptly as possible. why is it so hard when nowadays you can even bank in the fee?
the management at the condo where im living have tirelessly reminded owners to pay the fee and they seem to be so inconsiderate even when their names are published on the board! Now TNB has cut the electricity supply to the condo and people are not able to use the lifts as well. It is so unfair to punish people who are promptly paying their fees just because of some of these super inconsiderate and stingy owners!! why buy a property if you cant afford paying for it to be maintained!

For those of you reading this post and who is an owner of a condo/apartment unit, I really do hope that you are paying up your fees especially if you are renting out your unit, it doesn't mean that you can ignore and be so inconsiderate of the well being of others in the place you own and be warned that any bad impression on your property can effect buyers interest.. especially in today's economic climate, you can dream on to try to sell your property if you are contributing towards its bad upkeep.

What condo is this?
Same here, i hate owners who don't pay their maintenance fees.

The problem is some fail to understand what community living is all about to be ready to live in stratified properties.

http://www.agc.gov.my/Akta/Vol.%207/Act%20318.pdf

Recovery of sums due
53. (1) Where a sum becomes recoverable by the management
corporation from a proprietor by virtue of paragraph 43(2)(a),
subsection 45(5) or (5A) and subsection 52(2), the management
corporation may serve on the proprietor a written notice requesting
payment of the sum due within such period, which shall not be less
than two weeks from the date of service of the notice, as may be
specified in the notice.Strata Titles 59
(2) If at the end of the period specified in the notice under
subsection (1) the sum or part of the sum due remains unpaid, the
management corporation may serve on the proprietor a written
notice demanding payment of the sum due within two weeks from
the date of service of the notice; and if upon expiry of the said
period, the sum due still remains unpaid, the management corporation
may file a summons in any court of competent jurisdiction for the
recovery of the said sum or, in addition or as an alternative to
recovery under this section, resort to recovery under section 53A.

Which condo?

Cut the water supply to those units which have not paid up in 3 months.

No need to get into grandmother story.

The JMB can forcibly enter the premise to seize the asset in the property to recover such arrears.
But some procedure must be strictly followed.

I am really surprised that many condos do not use this tool. This is already practiced successfully in some of the condo management, so it's not a fiction.

This post has been edited by puchongite: Feb 27 2015, 08:51 AM

Malaysia law useless, this is why..

I don't think it has anything to do with Malaysia law.

It's more like Malaysian attitude.

The law has already provided condo management the legal right to recover the money. But to be able to actually recover the money is a painful and costly operation.

Now TNB has cut the electricity supply to the condo and people are not able to use the lifts as well.

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wah... so serious..

I am also facing the same problem at my place. The best part is, the maintenance fee is the lowest i have seen... only RM110 per month. And the services my apartment provide, is really good and safety is excellent. No break ins and so on. And yet, there is almost RM800,000 payment due from owners. Its also a low density apartment and yet these owners don't take responsibility.

Are all condo's water supply handled by management? Cause my apartment is handled directly by syabas. water bill is also by syabas.

But I wonder why many don't use this? Could it be there's no mandate from the residents themselves to initiate legal proceedings? After all, we're talking about quite a sum of legal fees & it's coming out from the resident's coffers.

Malaysia laws are quite ok.
It is the enforcement that is lacking and public apathy due to our world-class education system.
Actually there is nothing much can be done if somebody does not want to pay maintenance fees.
The legal process is lengthy and arduous and tortuous

I look at this, it's still the condo management's fault for letting the cancer to grow into last stage.

Should have nipped the problem at it's bud.

Are you an owner also?

the management also need to be in fault with, they should act and not wait until the electricity being disconnected at the cost of the residents that provide prompt payment. If this happens often, i think even the prompt payers would just ignore paying. In the end the management is dysfunctional.

Exactly. It's the fault of the management !

Might be got people in the management taking kopi-O money and causes relaxed execution.

Fit to become a grandmother story teller but not fit to be a condo management.

Are you in the JMB as well? To be frankly honest, it is the mentality of the people that live in the condo. Some people that live in condo have the mentality that they are living in landed property where they dont think that their action would affect people which are sharing the facilities.

Plus, it is not entirely the fault of the management if countless reminders have been sent to the owner such as calls, official letter from the management plus even legal action if maintenance fees are not paid for more than 3 months. The next step from the management if they dont a choice is to switch off the water supply to the unit.

This is not only happening at those mid cost apartment but even at high end condo/apartment because my dad is currently managing a condo which has a resale value of RM850k onwards. Thus, I believe if these owner can afford property at these prices but not paying the monthly maintenance fees of RM500/month for example