Warning To All Owners

This afternoon (2nd September 2012), I assisted an owner of e-Tiara resolve issues with some illegal tenants. The original tenancy agreement was with a student from China who was studying in one of our nearby colleges. The student card below has been blurred for obvious reasons.

The student evidently has great business acumen in that he rented four units in e-Tiara and had sublet his units to other foreign students/nationals. He even walled up the hall of one unit so that an extra room could be created and thereby increase the number of sub tenants. One major issue the JMC would like to bring to owners' attention is that this particular owner had not checked on her unit and left all renting to a property agent - to her peril. When she demanded that the illegal tenants leave, they refused and the matter came to the attention of Meilah and myself.

This afternoon I managed to persuade the last illegal tenant to leave and the unit was handed back to the owner.

 As always the JMC had to be burdened with the task of resolving issues after owners commit mistakes in managing their units. While many owners are very good at managing their units, there are others who still entrust the task to property agents. To the last group - please check on your property from time to time.

The damage to the unit is shown below:

Tai Lung Aik

Chairman JMC 2012 

You can follw this post in the USJ forum at Warning to all apartment/condo owners 

New Security Measure

As we continuously strive to improve our security at eTiara and the latest issues of foreigners causing some security problems by illegally staying in some units, we are registering all visitors who enter eTiara. The registration of visitors who enter by car has already been emplaced. At the suggestion of our security company, we are now registering those who walk into our apartment block. Please cooperate to make their job easier.

AGM 2012 Reminder

To All Owners,

This year's AGM will be held as follows:

         Date  :   Saturday, 29 September 2012
         Time  :  10.00 am
          Place:   Multi-purpose Hall, R-Level

Please remember to submit your proxy forms when your unit has more than one named owner

Refreshments will be served and please be on time

As stake holders your attendance will further enhance our efforts to make e-Tiara a better place to stay and make it a more valuable investment for you. 

Please be informed that:

1.  The quorum for our AGM shall consist of 1/4 of all owners who have paid their maintenance and management charges (designated herein voting members) before 23 September 2012.

2.  If the required quorum is not met within the first half hour after the start of the meeting, voting members who are present shall form the quorum.

3.  All resolutions shall be decided via a show of hands and each voting member is only allowed a single vote.

4.  Joint purchasers will not be allowed to vote, except when nominated as a proxy or are holders of letters of nomination.

5.  If there is a tie during the voting process, the Chairperson shall have the right to cast the deciding vote.

6.  Owners who are absent during the AGM shall be considered to have consented to all decisions made during the meeting.

7.  If an election of a new Joint Management Committee (JMC) is held, proxies or holders of letters of nomination can cast their vote but cannot be appointed to the committee.

Extortion Scam

Just to share with you how creative some crooks are in extorting money from you, They will throw themselves on top of your car bonnet and try to extort money from you for "hurting" them. See the embedded Youtube video below. While the incident did not occur here there could be copycat scams already in the pipeline for some crooks. So beware!

Hari Merdeka ke-55

Blog Material Plagiarized!

Yesterday, on 15 August 2012, the JMC discovered that our blog materials were plagiarized by a student from a private college who used the materials to construct her/his web site. The student's work was posted in one of the college's web page for evaluation purposes by their lecturers.

In the picture above, the college's web page and other students' work have been blurred and the college's name has been removed to protect those concerned, . However, the work of the student has been highlighted for your reference.

The student's work is shown in the following examples below:

This page contains links lifted from our blog 

 This page contains content "Misconduct by African Tenants at L01-12B" which was lifted from our blog in its entirety..including the photos.

 One of the pages with links to "The Management"

 "The Management" list is inaccurate and is not up-to-date.

 Permission has not been obtained to use the JMC's address and phone number 

The JMC has contacted the college and it has promised to remove the web page from the Internet yesterday. But, till today, 16 August 2012, the page can still be viewed, although parts of the web page has been erased, including the contents of the "For Rent" link. 

While we support the efforts by students to improve their skills in their course work, we do not appreciate them lifting materials from our blog and using the name of the JMC in their work without prior permission. It is also not appropriate as the web site could be accessed from the Internet and will cause confusion to our residents as the two web sites contain conflicting materials. The link on "For Rent" will be misconstrued that the JMC is acting as a property agent which is not our role.