faq – Red Cliffs Property

FAQ

FAQ BOOK CONTENTS

What Does Strata Mean and How Does It Work? 1
What is a Share Unit and Why is it Important to a Property Owner? 5
Who Can Make Motions at a Condo Board Meeting? 7
I Hate the Rules Enforced by the JMB! 9
When the Law Stops Short and Falls Silent, What Then? 12
JMB Issued a Trespass Order Banning and Blacklisting Me from Visiting This Condo. Can They Do That? 14
If the Landlord Doesn’t Pay the Maintenance Fee, Are the Tenants’ Rights Affected? 16
What is the Main Essence of Act 663 and Now Strata Management Act 757? 17
How Much to Insure? JMB has been obligated to Rebuild Now under Section 100 of Strata Management Act 757. 19
Living With A Four–legged Friend in a Condo, What Should I Know? 21
Our Condo JMB Treats Themselves to a Night out at the Owners’ Expense! 23
Why Did Our Swimming Pool’s Crystal-clear Water Turn Green Overnight? 25
Outvoted and Unhappy! 27
How Do I Find a Good Property Manager ? 29
Why Aren’t T-shirts Allowed in the Swimming Pool? 30
Condo Cop Gives out Fines Like Nobody’s Business 33
What Can I neither Live With or Without? 35
Do Unsold Car Parks Permanently Belong to the Developer? 37
Stray Cat Problem in Apartment 39
Our JMB is Converting Reserved Land for Hawker Stalls 41
Condo Renovation Blues 43
The Naked Truth 45
Can the JMB Chairman Pay Themselves a Fixed Monthly Allowance of RM 1,500.00? 47
How to Deal with a Stubborn JMB? 48
Why am I Paying for This? 50
Who is Responsible for the Repairs inside My Unit? 52
Bend the Rules - Safety First 53
Is There Any Contradiction of the Strata Management 757 Act Section 22 (2g)? 55
I Have Two Car Parks, One of Which is Never Used. Can I sell One to My Neighbour, Who Wanted to Buy It From Me? 58
Accused of Feeding Stray Cats 60
Who’s Responsible for Common Area Defects, the JMB or the Developer? 62
Is Refusing to Pay Maintenance Fees a Criminal Offense Now? 66
What Will Happen If I Don’t Pay to Comply with A Strata Award? 69
Lift Breakdown Woes 71
How to Survive Getting Stuck in a Lift 76
What is a Lien? 80
What are Fiduciary Responsibilities? 82
What Is Considered Common Property? 85
What is Joint Management Body (JMB) or Management Corporation (MC?) 86
Dysfunctional Monthly JMC Meetings – Can Someone Else Go in My Place? 90
How Long Must Condo Records Be Kept? 91
Domestic Waste Piled Up After CNY Holidays 92
I was accidentally elected as a JMC Member Last Week, should I quit? 94
Overcrowding: Can a Two-Room Apartment House Twelve Adults? 96
Can I Still Have More Than One Proxy at the AGM or EGM After Enforcement of SMA Act 757? 99
How Long Before I Have to Transfer Strata Title Ownership to Avoid Being Fined? 100
Disgruntled Ex JMC Upsetting Condo Unity 104
JMB Making Their Own Rules 106
Former Condo Management Company Reluctant to Release JMB Records and Files 108
Bought This Condominium but It’s Not Legally Mine 110
Can a Power of Attorney Holder Stand for Election as a Council Member of the Management Corporation? 112
What Does Free from Encumbrance Mean, and Why is This Important Clause Included in the Tenancy or SPA Agreement? 115
How to Deal with an Authoritarian JMC Leader? 118
Can JMB Issue Fines Without a Warning First? 122
Dog Defecating in Common Area 123
How to Fight the System 125
What the Nagging Problems Currently Faced by House Buyers? 129
How is the Strata Management Act 757 Section 148 Related to the Issue of DMC? 133
Can a Watchdog Group be Formed and Allowed to sit on top of the MC 135
I am a Newly Elected Chairperson of Condominium in KL; Can I Remain as chairman If I Sell My Property at the end of this year? 137
How to Prepare for Fire Disaster 140
JMB Secretary Regularly Absent from Condo Monthly Committee Meetings 143
How to Remove an Under-performing JMB Chairman? 145
Our Condo Annual Operation Budget was Rejected Outright 147
My JMB Breached Duty of Care, What Can Owners Do? 149
What Problems Will You Face If You Procrastinate When Obtaining Your Strata Title? 150
My Condominium Has Money Left Over in the Operating Maintenance Account. Should the JMB/MC Give It Back to the Owners? 152
If a House Rule and a Bylaw Conflict with Each other, Which One Takes Precedence? 153
How to Make Insurance Claims for the Total Loss of a Building 154
Things to Consider When Electing a Good Leader for the JMB? 146
Waste Separation Problems in High-rise Buildings 159
Daylight Robbery 162
Quarrelsome Residents are Giving Me a Headache 164
Condo Lacks Parking Spaces 166
EGM a Time Bomb Waiting to Explode 168
How to Deal with Uncooperative JMC Members? 170
Can the JMB Levy Two Different Rates for the Maintenance Fee? 177
What Is the Difference between a BMA and a BMF? 173
Is Every Executive Committee Member Personally Liable for Noncompliance? 174
Which Part of SMA 757 Specifically? Lays Out the Penalty? 174
Are Accessories Parcels A Part of the Unit Shares? 176
Is It True that Mosquitoes Can Only Fly Up to Two or Three-Storey High? 177
Can a Person who was Convicted and Fined by a Court Become a Committee Member? 179
Each Owner Has Only One Vote Regardless of How Many Units the Person Owns, right? 181
First AGM Meeting is Over, What Next? 182
Looking for Trouble 184
What Do We Take Over from the Developer and How? 187
Is Fogging Enough to Prevent a Dengue Outbreak? 189
What to Do If a Payment Was Made but It Went Missing? 191
Can an Absent Proprietor be Nominated and Elected as a Management Committee Member? 194
Will the Conversion of an Entire Block? of the Condo into a Hotel Cause Overcrowding? 195
What to Consider in a Budget Wish List? 197
What’ll Happen if the JMB’s Management Accounts aren’t Audited Annually? 200
How Important is Pest Control in a Condo? 202
The JMB Vice Chairman is Also Our Building Manager 205
Can We Remove a JMC Member or Ask Him to Step Down If He is Delinquent on His Maintenance Fees? 206
Turning the Common Area into a Work Area 208