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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/23/2009 Posts: 8,083 Location: Enk are Nyirobi
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hardwood wrote:sparkly wrote:mkenyan wrote:MugundaMan wrote:Liv wrote:hardwood wrote:mkenyan wrote:NewMoney wrote:MugundaMan wrote:hardwood wrote:MugundaMan wrote:Mara oooo service charge; who paid and did not pay. Then there is always those three or four that go "on strike" and refuse to pay service charge. What will you do to make them pay - nada. Well, you can break their legs.... https://www.standardmedi...776901_1250943521670271
Quote:Ms Nyawira suffered a broken leg due to alleged harassment by some of her neighbours, who she claims have been harassing her after she refused to part with Sh2,500 every month for security. “I was recently attacked by some of my neighbours just because I told them that I could not contribute Sh2,500 every month for security. The neighbourhood management has now instructed the watchmen not to open the main gate for me,” said Nyawira. The mother of three said she was attacked by six men and women from her neighbourhood late last year after she refused to pay. Nyawira is now forced to open the gate for herself with her broken leg, regardless of whether it is raining or not since the guards have been instructed not to open the gate for her or her family.   Quote:Nyawira is now forced to open the gate for herself with her broken leg, regardless of whether it is raining or not since the guards have been instructed not to open the gate for her or her family. I do not agree with the violence meted on her but I 100% agree with the soft punishment of forcing her to open the gate herself since amekataa security fee. But imagine if these are the sorts of shidas you get in a gated community in membley, imagine the types of shidas you will get in apartment complexes in Lavi or Kilimani with 100+ units! You may find 30% have refused to pay and you have to resort to jambazi tactics to force them. Not worth the headache at all. Better to own your own boundaries and land and beautiful maisonette and live in total peace under the sun that gnash teeth with terrible neighbours who you are stuck with on the same mother title for life! True, some neighbours in any gated community whether it is in DC or in the inner city will refuse to pay the service charge. I know a friend who joined hands with neighbours in Athiriver to gate their compounds together and agreed to contribute 1k per month for the shared guard, well he told me some don't pay and the problem is they don't have a management team so the stress trickles down to the ones paying. In places like Kilimani, and Lavington, the headache is always outsourced to a management team contracted by the owners, as long as you pay your share, you will never need to know what commotion is going on if any. Can you imagine how stressed that lady's neighbours had to be to the extent of hurting her??? Life is too short for that kind of drama When Nairobi finally reaches DC, you will also be forced to start paying for service charges as well so that your shared amenities in the neighbourhood can be properly maintained, otherwise the place will deteriorate into a slum and an easy target for petty thieves. You can never escape service charges in fact, you should be very happy to pay it since it offers some guarantees which improve the quality of your life. new apartments and gated town houses in lavington, kile etc nowadays add a clause in their lease that if you don't pay service charge despite notice then you lose the apartment/town house. Whaaaat? How do you lose your 15m apartment due to some 10k petty cash? What if I opt not to be a member of the residents association and instead decide to employ some ferocious moran to stand at my door 24/7 at 7k each month for my security? Or employ no one and leave everything to the almighty and His guardian angels? There is a clause that an owner of an apartment also has 1 share in the company which owns the plot of land where the apartments are built. When you come to selling your apartment or anything that requires charging of the property. The directors of the company will not sign or facilitate before you've paid all the service charges. Why trouble yourself opening the gate for yourself or disposing the garbage yourself.... And eventually these service charges will be paid? Exactly. The perils of "service charge" in the apartment complex set ups that some of these ferras are touting as "better" than buying and building in DC Maanchap! these are mostly services that you would still need whether you have an apartment in lavington or a house deep into kajiado. the only difference is that in the shared service scenario you pay less than if you were alone. it is a pretty simple thing but most people are a little dense to think beyond, 'i am not paying rent again to a house i have already bought.' try having even a stand alone house in kilimani/kileleshwa/lavington without security and tell us just how many times you would have break ins and thefts. @Mugundaman is very clueless for someone who claims to buy and develop real estate. The guy is a troll. I thought apartment owners are issued title deeds under the sectional properties act and not some piece of paper saying they own 1 share in the building. Why buy a property without a title deed, a property you cant sell unless your neighbours give you authority? You get title to your apartment plus a share in the management company which owns/ manages the common areas. Even estates like Komarock, Buruburu, South B etc have management companies but because owners don't contribute the service charges and enforce byelaws, the estates went to the dogs. Life is short. Live passionately.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 1/8/2018 Posts: 2,212 Location: DC (Dustbowl County)
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Liv wrote:
@hardwood, you do research on many things here and you are very impressive.... Why don't you get information online on what exactly someone gets when they buy an apartment? Getting apartment title lease is not enough.... What would happen if all the apartment owners got the title to the apartment and the developer who sold the apartments to them then sold the mother land title to someone else who demands you remove your apartment from his land?
@Mugundaman, my point on service service was that for apartments in kilimani and lavington there is no saying that you won't pay.... One day you will need to sell your apartment or have a charge in it.... If you've not been paying, you will be denied service and you will have to eventually pay. But these are shared costs for security, cleaning, garbage collection gardenning, common area painting etc.
If you have built on your own plot....you incur more to get these services than those who live in the apartments.
Liv, Hakuna disagreement Kabisa with what you are saying. Sparkles and mkenyan are disputing what you are saying. The issue is not how high the cost of service charge is (does Mugundaman care whether his cost of garbage collection and security is higher than an apartment owners? Of course not). The issue is that disputes are literally inbuilt into these sorts of ownership profiles (apartments especially) because to think 100 different people will all faithfully work together bila disputes over service charge is a pipe dream. Owning ones own property without those encumbrances of being tied to cantankerous Ferras like Sparkles and mkenyan who may refuse to pay service charge at any time is something I would joyfully pay 10 times the service charge to experience alone in the comfortable boundaries of my beautiful 1/4 acre!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/23/2009 Posts: 8,083 Location: Enk are Nyirobi
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MugundaMan wrote:Liv wrote:
@hardwood, you do research on many things here and you are very impressive.... Why don't you get information online on what exactly someone gets when they buy an apartment? Getting apartment title lease is not enough.... What would happen if all the apartment owners got the title to the apartment and the developer who sold the apartments to them then sold the mother land title to someone else who demands you remove your apartment from his land?
@Mugundaman, my point on service service was that for apartments in kilimani and lavington there is no saying that you won't pay.... One day you will need to sell your apartment or have a charge in it.... If you've not been paying, you will be denied service and you will have to eventually pay. But these are shared costs for security, cleaning, garbage collection gardenning, common area painting etc.
If you have built on your own plot....you incur more to get these services than those who live in the apartments.
Liv, Hakuna disagreement Kabisa with what you are saying. Sparkles and mkenyan are disputing what you are saying. The issue is not how high the cost of service charge is (does Mugundaman care whether his cost of garbage collection and security is higher than an apartment owners? Of course not). The issue is that disputes are literally inbuilt into these sorts of ownership profiles (apartments especially) because to think 100 different people will all faithfully work together bila disputes over service charge is a pipe dream. Owning ones own property without those encumbrances of being tied to cantankerous Ferras like Sparkles and mkenyan who may refuse to pay service charge at any time is something I would joyfully pay 10 times the service charge to experience alone in the comfortable boundaries of my beautiful 1/4 acre! You will not be alone, you will enjoy with thugs. Home owners are forced to abandon their stand alone suburban houses, go back to rent in towns. https://www.google.com/a...asAMP-6q6yuj/index.html
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Life is short. Live passionately.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 1/8/2018 Posts: 2,212 Location: DC (Dustbowl County)
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DC is not for weaklings like you papa. Those security challenges in Bondeni, Ngong and Nalepo from Waaaaay back in 2013/2014 were solved kitaaaaaambo. Ask my friend Reuben Matthews on the ground if y'all don't believe me. Those in Nyeri need to move en mass to DC where the face of Kenya lives peacefully nywee bila stress yoyote. DC is Kenya's most peaceful and secure county and I know that pains you bitterly . Pole Sana!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/23/2009 Posts: 8,083 Location: Enk are Nyirobi
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MugundaMan wrote: DC is not for weaklings like you papa. Those security challenges in Bondeni, Ngong and Nalepo from Waaaaay back in 2013/2014 were solved kitaaaaaambo. Ask my friend Reuben Matthews on the ground if y'all don't believe me. Those in Nyeri need to move en mass to DC where the face of Kenya lives peacefully nywee bila stress yoyote. DC is Kenya's most peaceful and secure county and I know that pains you bitterly . Pole Sana! I have an issue with such language, which is totally irrevant and uncalled for on the subject matter. Life is short. Live passionately.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/18/2011 Posts: 12,069 Location: Kianjokoma
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sparkly wrote:MugundaMan wrote: DC is not for weaklings like you papa. Those security challenges in Bondeni, Ngong and Nalepo from Waaaaay back in 2013/2014 were solved kitaaaaaambo. Ask my friend Reuben Matthews on the ground if y'all don't believe me. Those in Nyeri need to move en mass to DC where the face of Kenya lives peacefully nywee bila stress yoyote. DC is Kenya's most peaceful and secure county and I know that pains you bitterly . Pole Sana! I have an issue with such language, which is totally irrevant and uncalled for on the subject matter. Yeah, try keep it civil & mature mugundaman, we are following...
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/1/2009 Posts: 273
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Lolest! wrote:sparkly wrote:MugundaMan wrote: DC is not for weaklings like you papa. Those security challenges in Bondeni, Ngong and Nalepo from Waaaaay back in 2013/2014 were solved kitaaaaaambo. Ask my friend Reuben Matthews on the ground if y'all don't believe me. Those in Nyeri need to move en mass to DC where the face of Kenya lives peacefully nywee bila stress yoyote. DC is Kenya's most peaceful and secure county and I know that pains you bitterly . Pole Sana! I have an issue with such language, which is totally irrevant and uncalled for on the subject matter. Yeah, try keep it civil & mature mugundaman, we are following... Good luck trying to get him to be civil. When I tried a few weeks back, he called me some rather disagreeable names that i do not wish to repeat here.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 1/8/2018 Posts: 2,212 Location: DC (Dustbowl County)
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Rank: Member Joined: 3/1/2019 Posts: 170 Location: Nairobi
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If you were smart enough you would realize that truth is relative. Nothing is absolute in this universe. Whatever works for you does not necessarily work for the rest of the world. Think about it. You are a classic case of "Dunning–Kruger effect".
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Rank: Elder Joined: 1/8/2018 Posts: 2,212 Location: DC (Dustbowl County)
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NewMoney wrote:If you were smart enough you would realize that truth is relative. Nothing is absolute in this universe. Whatever works for you does not necessarily work for the rest of the world. Think about it. You are a classic case of "Dunning–Kruger effect". With all due respect this is unfiltered nonsense.Can we go back to the substantive issues; the discussion about 1/8ths and whether being stuck with 100 property owners on the same mother title is "better" than buying a plot and building in DC?
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