Keppel Land

2010-07-23T08:09:00.000-07:00

This is regarding the Elita Promenade apartment complex, a joint venture between Keppel Land and Puravankara. Project execution is completely under Keppel Land.

This project has been horribly delayed. Moreover their attention to quality is ever diminishing. We had bought a 3BHK apartment in A10 block of this apartment complex. We were given notice of handover on May 18 2010 after months of chasing Keppel's management. It took them more than a month to fix their shoddy quality of work. But the trouble did not end and seems like its never going to.

There have been numerous leakage problems in our apartment and they have been fixing them. Although its appreciable that they are fixing the problems, why are these problems happening in first place? Another problem is that management indiscriminately turns deaf ears to newly discovered issues. We are less than a week away moving into our apartment and there are still unfixed leakage issues. Funniest part is when we enquire about the status of the issue, Keppel management says "Its in progress, this is all we are hearing from our contractors, so cant say more". I wonder what value Keppel brand is adding here. Isn't it the very Keppel brand for which we have paid so much money?

Pictures below show the magnitude of leakage issues.

Above image shows the leakage in the corner of kitchen. Kitchen shelves have been already fixed, I wonder who is going to pay if the leakage damages the shelves?

Above image is of bathroom ceiling from where the water is literally trickling down.

And above is the result of trickling water from bathroom ceiling.

This image shows the wet patch in the wall in one of the bedrooms. Our wardrobe is supposed to come on this wall. The work is stalled due to above leakage.

Disgusted and appalled by the situation this is what I have written to Keppel management.

Dear Mr Collin,

We are less than a week from moving into our apartment and the leakage issues have not yet been fixed. Worst part is we are finding new leakages just before we are getting ready to move. Our woodwork is getting delayed and we are really getting worried about all the plight we will have to go through after we move in. To add to this Mr Madhu says "Work is in progress. This is all we are hearing from our contractors.", "We are not able to get the work done by the date committed". Kudos to your level of professionalism!!!

You can see some pictures here {link to this blog}. Are you guys waiting for this to be published in Singapore press? A reply with baseless assurance is not going to work. I seek detailed explanation and action.

Regards,

Lets see what they have to say...

This is just one of the issues with one of their 1500 apartments. Isn't Keppel Land cheating people?

Arrival of new member in my family

2007-02-25T14:41:00.000-08:00

Name: Suhaani Agarwal
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 2/23/2007 00:15 (PST)

This has been the most wonderful experience in my life, I can't describe it in words. Looking at her serene face, beautiful smile (I haven't successfully captured her smile yet, but yes, she does smile already) and deep eyes I wonder if there is anything else that can even match this experience.

Nidhi (her mom) and Suhaani are both doing fine. First day was very comfortable, we were all very excited and could hardly get any sleep. Suhaani was asleep most of the times. I couldn't stop looking at her, placed comfortably in my arms. By evening we had given the good news to most of our friends and relatives. Our parents and siblings were excited, Nidhi's parents became grand parents for the first time.

Night of 2/23 did not go so well, Suhaani was a little cranky. After trying hard for about 3 hours to pacify her we had to seek nurse's help, luckily we were in hospital that night. As a result we managed to get a couple hours sleep. I am otherwise a very deep sleeper and sleep at a stretch, I said to myself "Well, that won't be possible anymore, at least until Suhaani does not grow big enough to have a regular sleep cycle". But still, after all those crazy moments of trying to calm her when I finally see her quite and happy I say to myself "It is all worth it".

We came home the afternoon of 2/24 and tried to catch up on our lost sleep of two days. Nidhi's mom is with us and she has been a great help throughout, we sure could not have managed everything by ourselves. Here comes the night of 2/24 and Suhaani repeats her act, this time no possibility of seeking help from nurse, which was good in a way as we have to learn to understand her. And yes, we did manage to put her back to sleep after about 3 hours.

It is afternoon of 2/25 while I am writing this blog. Although I did manage to sleep better, it was no way close to sound sleep. So I will try to catch up with my sleep again after uploading some pictures. Nidhi has been sleeping much less compared to me so I can't really complain, but still.

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Keppel Land

Arrival of new member in my family