Quit-rent to be billed to Shah Alam high-rise unit owners

SHAH ALAM (July 25): A briefing was conducted on the new Shah Alam individual quit-rent during a seminar attended by joint management bodies (JMB) and management committees of stratified buildings in Shah Alam. 

Starting June 1, Selangor Land and Mines Department quit-rent charges to the JMB of stratified buildings will be replaced by the individual quit-rent, billed to each unit owner.

Building management will no longer collect quit-rent due, reported The Star. 

Some 200 JMBs, developers's representatives and management committees were briefed at a seminar in Shah Alam yesterday. 

Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) deputy secretary Rosli Bakar said there were 560 strata housing schemes in Shah Alam, with 87,000 units, and the number of issues that were faced in strata buildings had increased from year to year.

Limited parking spaces, high maintenance costs, expensive utility repairs, and poor strata management due to lack of cooperation between management and unit owners, and poor cleanliness were some of the complaints received.

“The complaints we received this year were more than half of last year,” he said to The Star.

To date, it has received 482 complaints this year. The total complaints received by the MBSA's Commissioner of Buildings last year was 632.

MBSA building department head Badrul Hisham Hussain said: “We address complaints on cleanliness and small management issues, but we usually advise residents to forward other complaints to the Strata Management and Housing Tribunal.” 

The briefing encompassed the procedure in filing claims, as well as the role and responsibilities of the Housing and Strata Management Tribunal.