Nam

Not me but I saw a notice on the lobby yesterday.
Saying last week, we have large number of car breaking in our complex.  The most recent one is on Sunday afternoon.

OH, and we have property crime NOT because WE are CHINESE.

I don't live in Richmond and the highrise residents are mix races with mostly Caucasian.

Nam

It seems apartment is the hot spot for car breaking..
Perhaps, too many resident and it's hard to say if a stranger is a suspicious person or not.

Nam

Gum, don't blame everything on the cops.
Sometimes, I feel sorry for the cops in Canada.

They got critized for everything.  A cop that busted a criminal house, and the criminals can get away due to privacy act.  A cop are not advised to use gun, then use taser.  And using taser will get critized.
Sooner or later, if cops use stick, it will be too dangerous for the general public.

If I'm in the police force, I will try to follow the book so that I won't get critized ....

Nam

I think what happen to apartment car breaking is..
people always in a rush to leave the parking lot and don't wait for the gate to shut.

Nam

I'm not sure about the high raise part as I live in the town house unit.

Our side only have one gate and high rise building have two if I didn't remember wrong.  The first gate is for visitor parking then the second gate is for resident.

When I first moved into this complex, it was pretty quiet and peaceful.
The past years, the original buyers slowly move out... and more younger couple or family move in... and troubles start raising... which quite annoying...

Our back door of  parking lot was broken in December 2008.
And storage unit was broken as well last year.  Our whole complex is line up with electronic lock.  However, people still manage to use tool to break the solid lock outside and cut all locks in the storage.

For all town house units, I think all units are equip with security alarm as well.  Honestly, I don't think it help much....

Nam

原帖由 布小熊 於 2009-2-17 16:22 發表
our building actually upgraded all the outside locks (from the default ones put in by the developer) so that they are harder to cut/break.
i am so far pretty happy w/ the strata and property manageme ...

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Which management company you guys are using?

We switch to a different company now since the management company we used was appointed by the developer.  And they done pretty much NOTHING at all..except collecting our $$$ monthly.... and... we never seen the building manager in person... The only way we can communicate with him is via e-mail ONLY.

[ 本帖最後由 Nam 於 2009-2-17 16:46 編輯 ]

Nam

Well, the on-site manager is good.  A very hard working Chinese couple but the higher management suck so bad.   All the facility has to done through him but we never see him in person...and he "prefer" to be contact via e-mail (or I should say nobody has his # at all). ....

Well, we ditch the old management by ending their contract 6 months earlier... and the council sign with a different management company.  Basically, all works was done by the strata council. Including shopping for contractor and lining up with different services.  The old management just sit there and collect $.

ai... so many $$$ wasted on too many things (not all management fault gei, part of the high rise resident fault too), those money could have spend on security facility..