Claiming process started

As I said before, the construction progress to our house is very slow. According to the agreement, the project will finish by June 2011. As we saw the progress development at whole Kuantan area, never cross in our mind the project will finish on that date. So we make an assumption based on our naked eye. My husband expectation is about December 2011 but for me the earliest date is June 2012 to finish the project. But our expectation is wrong, the project that should be done by June 2011 is finish on December 2012. One half years extra delay time just for 22 semi-D houses. By that time I had labour already for my second baby. Can you imagine I buy the house 3 years before the finish date? On that time my child is only Harraz 8 months.

Not only that, we have to wait for Certificate of Fitness (CF) for almost 4 months before getting the key. At last we got the key on 1st April 2013. By that time my husband and I have made a calculation to claim of the delay time but we don’t know the process. So we start to see the lawyer to do the claiming progress but nothing happen because on that time there’s only a clerk on the office so we didn’t see the lawyer. So we just wait and wait. We never ask the developer about the claim but I did ask to the developer’s clerk “Did any of my neighbours do a claim to the house?” But the clerk refused to say and she said “no one ask for that”. I don’t know why I trust her so much but we planned to manage out house first then after that will do the claim.

The letter

 So we continue to do defect work, grill assemble, painting and etc. Maybe ALLAH is with us, something happen because the clerk give us the wrong key for the sliding door. One day we are going to the developer office to change the key, there’s our neighbours asking about the claim. My husband and I just hearing what they say, they seem angry to the developer because they did the claim already for a month before but didn’t get the money yet. So I ask one of my neighbours about the process. Then the MGS’s teacher teaches me how to do it. Actually the process is very simple, we just write a letter to the developer and ask how much claim by using simple calculation. After know how to do then we proceed the claim. Mr Ha (developer) ask us not to claim because he said the project are not profitable to them because the contactor cheat on them. But this time I would not trust them anymore.

We give a month to ourselves getting the claim without pushing the developer. After a month later I ask my husband to ask our neighbour either they get the claim already or not. You know they got the claim already and they said we have to push the developer if want the money. So my husband and I rotate call the clerk to give her headache..haha. What a surprise, after a week we get the money but she ask for a discount. Then we give about RM 1500 discount from total claim. So finally we get RM10,136.80 total claim. Finally I feels 3 years waiting is payable..hehe.

So for my opinion if your house is late completion, you are allowed to do a claim because it's your right as a buyer. What we do to the money is SECRET..haha.