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Originally Posted by queenie40something
Hi Tony - your welcome - just wish we could have done more but we were rushed. The meters are individual ones and are pre paid. I enquired about this a while ago as I heard that we had to pay extra for the meters and this is the response I received via Skype
Concerning the handover kindly be informed that every client of Sierra Resort will have to pay upon handover 2,300 LE for water and electricity meters, electricity card which will be recharged with 650 LE, 1000 LE insurance for water to be paid in advance refundable if you sell the apartment. To understand the insurance is if somebody use water and don’t pay for it.... (which is logic). So the total makes 3,950 LE.
I dont really understand the Insurance part of the water?? I was going to get Tarek to clarify this but he wasnt around when we went into the office.
Our apartment is very nearly there. The front door is now locked up which is a good sign. We would not have accepted the keys because this would have meant that we would then have had to pay the above there and then and also the £1500 maintenance fee. The reason we did not is because it was not quite complete eg window in bathroom to be installed and smoke detector. Balcony and railings need finishing and garden landscaping. Also the entrance to the block is not finished along with the landscaping and the pool around our zone. It wont be long though - within a month. Mostafa will soon start furnishing it and he has drawn up a contract to state it will be furnished by 8th August. We have booked to go back Oct but I may nip over for a long week end in August to check everything and if all is complete then hand over the above monies. Mostafa ( he used to work for SRE ) said that he believes there will be an office on the development where we can top up the pre payment cards for the meters. Personally I think this is a much better idea than having a bill. If you rent it out then it can be topped up by the tenant. There does not appear to be any news on the hotel eg what chain has bought it yet. They are still working on the hotel buildings, restaurant etc as well. We were really impressed with the amount of workers on site and they really seemed to be getting stuck into it as opposed to standing around. Through interpreter the site agent said our pool and landscaping will be ready within a month and Paul ( he is a foreman and builds new houses and flats in the UK ) said this will be achieved easily within the month. They were marking out the pool and landscaping on the Zone behind us. They had cleared up our Zone alot from the Sunday til the Thursday to get ready for marking out etc. I imagine now a week down the line it has already moved on and would suspect that the pool has now been concreted. Lynn and Ryan are still out there and were going to make a few more visits so hopefully they will give us another update and some pictures etc.
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very usefull thank you,more questions for the oracle,what will you do about the checking of your unit when completed.we were told we only had 1 month to inspect,and have alterations made which is difficult when we are not given a completion date, to arrange flights.also,we arent keen to pay full maintance figure,when 1) site is not completed,and 2)we have arranged furniture package and believe it should be fully completed untill the furniture package is fully fitted
also with the maint. fee has the late penalty clause been mentioned