Still not paid for late delivery compensation
The Malay Mail 19/9/2005

KUALA LUMPUR-Owners of Daisy Apartment in Subang Perdana at Shah Alam, Selangor, not only
had to wait three years for late delivery of their units, they had to wait for almost another year
for compensation from the developer.

The 500 owners were unable to move into their apartment units in 2000, so they filed late delivery claims for three years with the Housing and Local Government Ministry’s Housing Tribunal which, on
Oct 14 last year, awarded between RM10,000 to RM25,000 to each owner.

The developer was ordered to make payment within 14 days of the judgement, but the owners are still waiting for their compensation amounting to about RM5 million.

"We hope our compensation will be paid to us before Hari Raya," said Daisy Apartment’s Action Committee head Muhamad Nizam Senin at a Press conference held over the weekend near their apartment and which was attended by about 90 owners.

Nizam said they bought the apartments at more than RM80,000 each and the project involving two medium-rise blocks started in 1997 and was to be completed in 2000.

"We could not move in until Dec 2003," he said.

Early this year, the developer verbally offered to pay 50 per cent of the claims awarded by the Tribunal and to settle it in the form of deductions of the estimated RM40 monthly maintenance fees over several years.

"Most of us turned down the offer, and only about 20 per cent of the 500 owners accepted," said Nizam.

In March this year, the Ministry’s enforcement division issued a notice to the developer to pay up the compensation or face a fine of RM5,000 or two years jail, or both, but the notice was ignored and no action was taken.

"The Tribunal has advised us to appoint a lawyer to get the compensation from the developer but to do so would incur more cost," said Action Committee member Azaman Amad.

"We are appealing to the authorities to advise the developer to pay up what is due to us." The Daisy Apartment owners are also being assisted by the National Consumer Complaints Centre.