After the Destruction

Here we are in September and our hallways are still dirty and smelly. Our units are still inundated with cockroaches and ants, and the green areas infront of the units are still ruined. We have no secure main door, no garbage closet, and the work in and around the units continues, usually on Saturdays.

Here are the main issues we have remaining in our buildings:

1) Security: we were supposed to get a new main-door security system. Where is it? Currently there is a door lock, but it is opened by pressing a button only, there is no code entry required, no key needed, nothing. A robber has only to push the button and the door lock releases! So why have it? Is this a security system? We guess this is what HKR considers security. Morons.

2) New hallways: So we endured the "hacking off" demolition in the common areas and hallway for....what? We have new tiles and a brighter wallpaint, but the tile is already stained and dirty and HKR's cleaning staff have not even bothered to clean it. Do they think because it is new tile, and a lighter shade, that they can now save more money by not cleaning it regularly? As usual, calls to "customer service" (yeah right, what a joke, more like "customer torture") produced no results. There was nothing wrong with the concrete walls in our unit, so why were they hacked off? The new walls are the same cheap concrete, will they be hacked off again soon?

3) The "new" mailboxes are a joke. Ours aleady has a broken lock and the material they are made of is cheap and prone to mold. Good job owners/HKR.

4) The green areas around the units are still muddy and ruined.

5) Outside lights not working, paint stains, splashed concrete on our balconies etc. Still there, still ugly, HKR doing nothing.

6) Where are the garbage closets? Why are the old smelly ones still there, but sealed up? We are still required to put our garbage outside in a bin that is usually over-flowing. Still a good breeding ground for rats and roaches.


But anyway, thank goddness the scaffolding is gone!

Though the noise and dirt persists: In our row of units there have been 4 interior renovations since the exterior renovation ended, some buildings are now enduring 2 interior renovations at the same time! That's 3 more months of noise and dirt for those poor residents. Of course all this is allowed by HKR, as the owners are more important than the residents; owners, after HKR themselves, can disrupt the peace of the residents whenever they like, and money hungry as they are, like HKR they have no consideration for residents.... or common sense, or common decency. They just rip it all out as cheaply as possible, which means more insane jackhammer noise, dirt, distruption and shattered lives for the residents of that building.

Yes, jackhammers on Saturday morning again. Cigarette butts and spit in the hallways, etc. etc. The usual cacophany of crap from this "unique DB lifestyle."

So we are still suffering from the usual bullshit, thanks to money-hungry owners who just have to rip out and replace the interiors of their investment flats in the hope of finally being able to rent it
out at the highest rate possible.

Dear Greedy owner:
Did your unit sit empty for 3-6 months with no prospects, then after a HK$250,000-400,000 "complete flat renovation", were you finally able to rent it out for almost what it was supposedly getting pre-97?

Was it a 2 year lease to a young family from overseas, unlikely to renew?

If so, was all of this worth it?

Do the math: you lose fool!!