Bayan Villa, Bukit Ikhlas

Purchaser Calvin Leong has updated us on the discussion, here it goes:-

I would like to update about the optional package:

They have finalize the tender for optional package.
- air-cond will be York (forgot to ask what HP)
- the would install the furniture along with handover
- for home automation item, one of the feature is intercom system will not only connect to the guardhouse, it will connect directly to your mobile.
- (I think) they have done the piping for centralize hot water and we just have to source for a water heater and install it (for those who didn’t sign up for optional package 2). Pls don’t take my word for this.

Thanks to Calvin Leong.

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1. Update by Purchaser Au – Oct 30, 2009

Calvin Leong, Au and I met with the Bukit Ikhlas management yesterday. Here is purchaser Au’s update on our discussion:-

Dear all,

Bayan Villa is now in the process of QA/QC the units before handing over to the purchasers. They are actually doing the defect works for us, in maintaining high quality of works carried out by their contractors. Broken or smeared tiles, will be replaced with new ones and be assured that this will be completed soon enough as Bayan Villa has employed sufficient workforce to carry out the task.

I’ve briefly checked on the few units on Wednesday (28 Oct), and found that the workforce is diligently doing the rectification works, and no worries for all of us that the quality is up to the standard. It’s also good that they do it now instead of us finding out and later on filling up the defect work forms when we want to move in.

There will be some news on Sam’s blog about commitment given by Bayan Villa some time from now, but please do give time allowance to update the info on his blog.

Regards,
Au

Thanks to Au.

Dear all,

Below is a list of purchasers who will be attending the meeting:

(1) Sam@Sootho & partner (2)
(3) Wei Yong & partner (4)
(5) Cheah & partner (6)
(7) Lei & brother (8)
(9) Au & partner (10)
(11) Terence & Reene (12)
(13) Jeremy Liau
(14) Calvin leong
(15) Latiff

*Max 15 persons.

By the way, the announcement made here is not good enough to reach you because you do not check it regularily. That’s the reason why I am requesting your contact details so that I can text or call you personally to give you the first hand news and announcement, if there is any.

Regards,

Sam

We did not have a secretary to record the meeting but I can conclude what we have discussed.

Basically the meeting is for us to sit down with the correspondent authorities, to discuss on the issues ahead and the solutions too. The developer have done their very best to make the issues transparent to us, and the local council and Pengarah Jabatan Perancangan Bandar MPSJ have assured us that they are working closely with the developer to make sure all the works are carried out without any problem, to reduce any possible delay during CF application.

The Pengarah, Mr Ismail even asked us to call him or email him directly, to ask him about any submission of plan by the developer and the status of the submission. I would say this comes as something very positive to the purchasers because the local authorities and council are really helping us and the developer.

In my opinion, Bukit Ikhlas developer is a also victim of the delay. They took over the project as the previous owner had difficulty to complete it. In such scenario, the possible outcome would have been the whole project to be abandoned and handed over to the federal government, where the completion is forever, and it will be a real nightmare to the purchasers. Fortunately, the current developer took over the project and are overcoming the obstacles in order to complete the project.

Additionally, the developer reps stated that the only obstacle left now is the access road where a study has been carried out by the professionals, and the proposal of the possible access roads will be submitted to the Pengarah in a couple days. They said multiple meetings with MPSJ had been taken place to get this issue resolved. This has been confirmed and agreed by the Pengarah.

This is the list of those who have confirmed to attend the meeting on Sunday:

- Mr David (Bukit Ikhlas)
- Mr David’s colleague (Bukit Ikhlas)
- Mr Ismail (Pengarah Jabatan Perancangan Bandar, MPSJ)
- Mr Pooi (MPSJ Councillor)
- Sam@Sootho (Purchaser)
- Lei (Purchaser)
- Au (Purchaser)
- Au’s sister-in-law (Purchaser)
- Wei Yong (Purchaser)
- Cha Foo (Purchaser)
- Cheah (Purchaser)

Seriously we need more purchasers to attend the meeting, to show our concern, to let all parties to know that how badly we are in needing our dream house.

Besides,I have thought of a couple questions to throw in the meeting, something like:

‘What else do Bukit Ikhlas need to do and add so that the purchasers can get the CF and move in by end of year 2009?’

Hopefully we can get some tips from the correspondent authorities, and we can offer the ‘tips’ to Bukit Ikhlas on June 16 meeting.

Purchaser Wei Yong has come up with a few concerns which I think all other purchasers would have wanted to know the answer:

1. Why is there a sudden requirements to add new road, why this wasn’t mentioned
when the project started?

2. What is the expected timeline for BI to complete the new roads?

3. Who will be involved in the building of the road? Is it going to be BI alone or another group of contractors that will be deployed. If new contractor, does that means it will goes through another round of project tendering again?

4. Is there anything else that BI still need to do other then the additional roads? We don’t want to get new surprises again in the next 3 months when there is suddenly new requirements needs to be meet.

Wei Yong also stated that he had gone to the show room recently and noticed that all the TNB cables were still sitting near the hill there. He was wondering why those had not been installed to all the units if the expected delivery was actually June 2009.

Thankfully, Kenneth from Bukit Ikhlas has answered Wei Yong’s questions but we need to clarify it in the meeting on Sunday. I will post up Kenneth’s reply to Wei Yong after this entry.

Hello all,

Please be informed that there is a meeting to be held on June 14, 2009 (Sunday) 12:30pm at the balai in Taman Universiti Indah. Together with us are the local councilor Mr Pooi, Pengarah Mr Ismail from Jabatan Perancangan Bandar of MPSJ, and you, the purchasers.

FAQ:
1. When is the meeting?
- June 14, 2009 (Sunday), 12:30pm.

2. Where will it be held?
- The balai in Taman Universiti Indah

3. Where is the balai?
- The balai is located opposite to Caltex petrol station in Taman U. Indah. (next to Playing field or Sek Keb Taman U. Indah)

4. Where is Taman Universiti Indah?
- Please refer to http://bayan-villa.blogspot.com/2009/06/bukit-ikhlas-satelite-map.html for the exact location.

5. Who and what parties will be attending?
- Mr Ismail of MPSJ, Mr Pooi of the local councilor, and the purchasers whoever can make it, the more the merrier.

6. Why isn’t a rep from Bukit Ikhlas attending?
- Probably the Singaporean bosses are coming over on Tuesday, so they prefer to meet on Tuesday instead. But Tuesday is quite impossible to most of the purchasers as we have to go to work to earn a penny to serve the monthly bank loan interest. I am still working on getting Mr David of Bukit Ikhlas to join us on Sunday. Anyway, I will definitely meet them up on Tuesday and if you can make it too, please join me.

7. What to prepare?
- Any questions and doubts about Bukit Ikhlas project development, do not forget to bring along your brain too.

8. What kind of questions can be asked on Sunday?
- E.g., when is the opening of the interchange to Putrajaya-KL highway, how many access roads are there when we get the CF and where are the access roads, something like that.

9. How much is the entrance?
- Free of charge

10. So far, anyone from the purchasers will be attending?
- Yes, Ms Lei, Mr Au and his sister-in-law, and I have confirmed our attendance for the Sunday meeting.

Last but not least, I hope those who met up in the last meeting such as Tai, Rachel and husband, Ewyong and gf, and others are joining us on this Sunday. I’d appreciate if you can email your contact number to me at sootho AT streamyx DOT com for communicating purpose.

Regards,

Sam
Purchaser (Bayan Villa, Bukti Ikhlas)

Lei has called YB and this is her update:

Dear all,

Wish to call a meeting with all the parties (local council, developer and house buyers), tentatively on 14/06/09 (Sunday) at 11am, venue: to be confirmed, hope BI allows us to meet at BI office.

I have called YB on this, he needs to check on his schedule and will revert to us. Not able to get Mr. Poi and I will try on tomorrow, will keep everyone update.

Mr. David, not sure if you are OK with the day and time, we do really hope every parties sit in to iron out the issues, since common objective — to complete project soonest possible and get CF issuance.

Thanks & regards,
Lei