Cyberia Smarthomes Residential Card Issue

What is so SMART about Cyberia Smarthomes?

Cyberia Smarthomes is located in Cyberjaya, Selangor, right next to Multimedia University. It consists of 9 towers of condominiums and 2 phases of town houses. It is home for many university students from Multimedia University, Lim Kok Wing University of Creative Technology and Cyberjaya University College of Medical Science. It is also home for those working in Cyberjaya and some of those working in Putrajaya, Sri Kembangan, Serdang and areas surrounding Cyberjaya.

If you have been staying in Cyberia, probably you have said or heard the above phrase many times. What is so smart about this place? In my opinion there’s nothing much so smart about this place accept the smart ass managements.  Prior to the current management, the old management was quite lousy. However, in general they leave the residents here in peace. They are may be slow and inefficient, but they gave little trouble to us, except for the poorly maintained facilities such as street lights and swimming pools. Most of the time, the only problem we have is the security guards who are acting all high and mighty smart ass because they are ‘instructed’ to carry their duty with only the residents safety and interest at heart  (We all know this is bullshit).

Recently, the management had been changed to Raine & Horne something something… and of course the transition wasn’t really smooth. They blamed that the previous management didn’t hand over to them properly and there were rumors that the previous management didn’t didn’t hand over all the files pertaining to the residents here. It had caused the water bills to came late by several months and there were no records on the payment made previously. Those whom had unsettled bills prior to the change  in management had get away with the debt. The deposit collected from the resident cards were also not able to be refunded. Of course people would be angry if they can’t get their deposit back. Who don’t right?

Now, to make the situation worst, they are enforcing a new rule. Those whom enter Cyberia from the small entrance that lead to MMU are assumed to be staying in Cyberia and had been told by the guards that they are required to obtain a resident card or else they will not be able to enter Cyberia. For an MMU student like me, whom had our foundation in Melaka, you will remember Emerald Park and Ixora. You will need the ‘ID card’ to enter into your hostel. That is so because these are hostels. They are run by private and facilities are provided right from the entrance to the bed room. Security guards at the entrance, cctv on the common areas, fully furnished room, maintenance work under the management, just to name a few. Cyberia is a residential area. These properties are obviously owned by owners, which in turn rent it out to tenants whom are staying here. Thus as a tenant, as long we are paying our rental and fulfilling out contract requirement towards the owner, there’s no reason and the management has no rights to disallow us to enjoy the properties that we rented.

I think the management will go super rich if they manage to force everyone to pay for the RM60/year fee and RM100 refundable deposit (provided they don’t ‘run away’ like the previous one). Lets say 5 person/unit, with 12 units/floor, 11 floors/tower (rough estimation coz the top most 2 floors are 2 level penthouse), 3 towers/block and there are 3 blocks in Cyberia Condo, that is almost 6000 residents in Cyberia. haven’t add up those staying in townhouses. 6000 residents means the management will rack in RM360,000/year and RM600,000 deposit initially. That is close to Rm1 million (This does not include those staying in townhouses!!!). Very big figure. With the large pool of money, is there any assurance it will be used properly with on ‘the interest of the residents at heart’? or they will laugh off at how much money they have got? perhaps also ‘run away’ like the rumored previous management? I will not have problem paying for the resident card if they can assure us they will improve the water quality in the swimming pool, upgrade the gym, fix all the broken  lights at the car parks and lit up the parks and the most important of all, treat us as their customers with RESPECT!!! Train all those guards to speak and behave properly.