Please take a look at Bandar Botanic Residents Association's (BBRA) membership fees:
One-time registration fee of RM20
+ Yearly subscribtion fee of RM24 (or RM2 per month)
*(the above info & pic are cropped from their blog for your ref...)
The other interesting thing to note is that ... as indicated in their blog, only about 450 out of the 3,000 units of houses (or 15% of the residents) joined the questionable "RA security scheme".
Fortunately most of the residents in Bandar Botanic are not stupid and are not easily fooled by the RA into signing up for any dodgy security scheme.
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Case Study 2 - Bandar Puteri Klang RA (inclusive and fair to all?):
Perhaps the need for the scheme here is more reasonable. The RA here is also more genuine because of several factors:
1) The residence was facing actual problems of roads being damaged by heavy vehicles passing through the neighborhood
2) Noise, pollution and dust as a result of the above
3) Peak hours traffic jams caused by vehicles taking a short-cut through the residence
4) For charging a more reasonable fee of RM50
5) Unobstructed access movements of non-participating residents (do not create problems for others)
6) Inclusive and fair in nature and no deprivations to any parties (respect the rights of others)
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Case Study 3 - All Phases of Bandar Bukit Raja (Jln Singgahsana & Jln Mahligai):
For your info ... these are the fees charged by the RAs here in Bandar Bukit Raja (Nafiri, Geta, Nahara, Cogan, Saron, and Nobat) as below:
Registration Fee of RM50
and Monthly fee of between RM50 - RM100 per month per house
(or a yearly fee of between RM600 - RM1,200) per house
Multiply that by 300 houses = (RM15,000 - RM30,000) per month... or (RM180,000 - RM360,000 p.a.). The estimated net profit is between (RM10,000 - RM25,000) per month per phase... and no wonder 'die die also must do" for them!
Do you think that the RAs here are charging reasonable fees? Do you think that the RAs here are genuine or otherwise? Do you think that the gated scheme here is necessary?
There are no short-cuts here for any heavy vehicles to use and our roads are not damaged by them. There is no traffic congestion at anytime and there is no pollution here. Vehicles simply cannot pass through our roads here to get to somewhere else. You do the math ... and you be the judge!
These houses in Bandar Bukit Raja here are not even certified GnG. The entire neighbourhood here is not under strata title and not private property. Therefore this GnG with proximity /card access cannot be implemented here legally. The RAs must stop bullying the residents into paying and signing up their illegal schemes. Stop the bullying!
(Fyi, Sime Darby Property never told you that you are required to pay the monthly fees here... the perimeter fencing erected by SDP was for added privacy and security. That's all and not meant for anyone to operate a gated community scheme). Actually the silent majority here do not want to pay but do so out of fear and do not want to be inconvenienced by the guards.
It's the same old story ... a small group of people with their selfish agenda took the opportunity to implement GnG scheme for themselves. One day they put up a barricade and stationed a security guard in your neighbourhood ... and then started collecting money from all the residents. They deliberately created inconvenience for the residence to coerce them to join the scheme. No wonder this non-legal 'neighbournood security skim' business is sprouting everywhere.
When are the residents here finally going to wake up?
