Telaga Emas - Our Nemesis

20th February 2010
It has been months when we heard the news that nearby to our beloved building, Vista Bay, there will be a new apartment coming up. The new soft launch was done a few days after Chinese New Year 2010 and this news hit us really bad although, we can't really do anything as we can't stop development from happening.

With this launch, it has proven that AirMas Group is actually creating issue for people living in Vista Bay especially the one who is going to face them everyday. From the information I got from the sales guy at AirMas, the building is actually parallel with Vista Bay building and also, its pretty near to each other with only 50 feet(this fact was given to me by salesman) of space between these 2 buildings. So near and yet, they were given approval to build in that allocated space..... pretty weird don't you think?

Anyhow, with the small place, they are planning to build a building which will be the home to 144 owners (at the very least) with the space smaller then the one we have in Vista Bay although each unit build up area is bigger compare to us (relative to Type A in Vista Bay). Basically, they have 3 types of parcel although they claim to have only 2 types which is Corner Unit and Standard Unit. Corner Unit will have a build up area of 1336 sqft while Standard Unit will have 1330 sqft which has 6 sqft space of difference. Another type of unit which I saw is the one which is at the corner but the shape of a triangle that is around 1250 sqft in size (You can see the layout in Diagram 2.... Unit 16).

Diagram 2	Diagram 3

Car parks will be basically placed inside the building itself as no car park will be allocated at the roofless area. In another word, all the car parks are allocated under the parcels. Ground floor as well as 1st floor of the building will be car parks and 2nd floor onwards till 10th floors will be parcels with each floors has 16 units/parcels and 2 lifts servicing all of them. Even with 2 lifts servicing 11 units in Vista Bay, I still don't think enough, imagine what you guys are going to face when you have 16 units on each floors.

(Below are my perspective/opinion on the new place)
Pros
1) Location is very strategic as it is built on the area at the heart of Butterworth.
2) Spacious ranging from 1250 sqft to 1336 sqft.
3) Price is quite reasonable with the starting price tag from RM195,000 till RM220,000
4) Maintenance fee is claimed to be around RM0.10 per sqft (same as Vista Bay)
5) Air-con compressor on the balcony has an allocated hidden area from public view.

Cons
1) Shared Toilet do not have any window.
2) 2nd room's window is facing air-well
3) Sea view apartment will be from 8th floor onwards where else the floors below would either no sea view or partial sea view only
4) Each unit will be allocated only one car park and if an owner would like to have extra car park, only on first come first serve basis.
5) 4th room is actually allocated at the outer part of the parcel which is at the drying yard
6) No rooftop court yard.
7) Another view of the building is facing another building (Vista Bay).
8) Not many car parks for cars parked outside of the fence.
9) The apartment is too near to Vista Bay (50 feet from building to building).
10) Too many units sharing 2 lifts.
11) For people who believe in Feng Shui, a home is divided into 9 areas (boxes/rectangles) and toilet is not allowed to be located inside box no 5(middle box) and this Telaga Emas design, well, the toilet is in the middle box.

This Telaga Emas is projected to finish in the year of 2013 which is another 3 years away and if any of you guys think this is a short period..... think again.

If you guys have your own view on this new place, do type your comment here.

Thanx