At ur request, sir.
Reposting horizonhills' earlier comment. For those who did not follow e thread, I do not own this post. Cheers
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In reply to East Ledanger: -
1. Safety and security: I havent stayed in my East Ledang house yet but my tenant over there did feedback about this loophole. I am afraid to say that myself a regular traveller to KL, Penang and Singapore in wee hours of the morning, I have personally witnessed guards sleeping at the sub-gate ( The Gateway ) and the main gate leading to the main road at 3am in the morning. My tenant in HH, an expat commented that all the times when he woke up to go for his morning jobs, he saw the guards napping and they dint woke up when he jogged past.
Positively, no major robberies has occurred yet.
2. Stray dogs: East Ledang has many stray dogs. HH has many stray cats. On many occasions my tenants have reported stray cats in the kitchen when he opened the kitchen door at 5am in the morning.
3. Mosquitoes: There are bound to be mozzie in Nusajaya. Hello, this is afterall Malaysia. I made it a point to buy those mozzie plug to deter mozzies from entering the houses.
4. Regular power outages: We have on average two power outages per month. Same in HH. this is afterall Malaysia remember? I had no problems with it since workers like us are usually away at work.. jst that whenver we reach home we will need to become Spiderman to climb into the door and manually fix the outage.
5. Lack of a full time maid (unless you invest under the MM2H scheme): Bear in mind that we Singaporeans cannot function as an employer under Malaysia regulations. My maid not being able to stay in Malaysia is one of the main reasons why I cannot stay permanently in JB. We obviously need a maid as my wife and I were very busy with our work and had no time to seriously entertain the 3 kids.
6. Frequent flooding: So far in HH so good. I mean, ponding occurs but not to the extent of flooding
7. Commute to Singapore: While it has been relatively easy last year to commute to Singapore, traffic has gotten much worse since April 2012. Expect long delays and traffic. Unfortunately, this will only get worse going forward. This I 100% agree with you. Just 5 years back when I returned to JB at 830pm, the Tuas checkpoint officers were chatting outside the booths and the whole place is so deserted that you can hear Bats flying around. Last week 9pm I had to Q almost 100m at Tuas checkpoint. This is very serious and with Woodlands checkpoint being a hopeless case and Tuas becoming super congested, I wont think about travelling to and fro daily. Once a week is still ok.
8. Room for capital appreciation??? Frankly, the capital appreciation in Nusajaya was fantastic in the first 5 years. Currently the prices has staganted. High asking prices has made some houses empty and the owners have moved out or the new buyers are not biting. Many tell me that certain Semis in HH is sold for RM 1.6M for example and they went on to say that a RM 900k profit is realised. Upon checking I then found out that RM 700+K semis are those w.o golf views and much smaller. The RM 1.6M house was earlier bought for over RM 1.2m back in 2008-9 because the size is already huge, much larger than normal golf course facing semis. Not bad still got S$150k profit but clearly not RM 900k as rumoured.
9. General attitude to resolving problems. The mentality in Malaysia is to think positive and pretend there are no problems. When you think *positive, there wont be any problems. Clearly some management in Nusajaya is getting complacent.
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