laguna33p I have no issue with that however if that is the building owners intentions then they should be made clear and late payers penalized with early on time payment rewarded.
Instead we seem to be paying homage to the lowest denominator ....
The problem we all have is that there is no transparency and no accountability and last of all no independent auditing.
This will not take place until such time that there are enough residents residing in the International City for nakheel to sit up and take notice. This is what happened with other projects in Dubai such as The Springs or Marina Project.
I was listening to The Australian CEO of Nakheel being interviewed on the Dubai Radio program business breakfast Dubai Eye 103.8 this morning about the Palm and he was addressing the question that lots of complaints had filed into Nakheel about the project "Juimerah Islands" because of shoddy workmanship, no communication, late delivery , etc and his response was that they had learned from this and were treating customers differently now.These were teething problems....
Well after I had spilled my tea on the floor and wiped up the mess I wish I had been given the opportunity to voice directly my complaints to the CEO of nakheel over the International City and what was one of Nakheels first projects because what we have here is major Root Canal work required forget about teething problems....
I am going to make another cup of tea
Sorry have to edit this and add the following...The Charges are trumped up Charges
laguna33p designed to Maxamise Nakheels Profit . Firstly they have taken the stand that Fees must be paid 12 months in advance not quarterly which is the norm in Australia. I understand that Nakheel are proberly going to follow the Australian Body Corp management guidelines for Apartments and adapt them as necessary having sent a team down to Australia last year to investigate this. Sorry Nakheel and the Building Owners just got greedy. Nakheel do not have any concern for apartment owners, just try ringing them, they will only deal Building Owners and then The Building Owner keeps giving you the run around!...Im getting dizzy