Dear Sirs
We have formed an apartment owners welfare assoctaion in Hyderabad.
We are having 12 flats and only. Two owners are staying in the said apartment ( one owner will be 6 months in India and 6 months in USA) I am the only one resident permenantly staying in the complex.
I am the secretary of the association and there are issues and non agreement in the meeting in fixing the maintenance expenditure in maintaining harmony of the complex. We used to maintain the monthly maintenance charges with a logic and rationale from time to time and have decided certain formulae in fixing the fixed charges and variable charges
Recently one tenant purchased an apartment and was known to the association only after registration and not officially inducted in the association committee.
As a tenant he is most irregular and never used to pay the maintenance charges in time and with a great difficulty with the intervention of others/his owner maintenance used to be paid.
I had an overseas assignment and we had a meeting and asked this tenant ( now owner) to handle the maintenance as a care taker. In the meeting, the fixed charges were raised from Rs.700/- pm to Rs.1000/- pm without any rationale.
Initially I had signed and realized this is against facts and informed the members immediately in the meeting ( verbally) and later communicated to all in writing that Rs.800/- can only be fixed with rationale and facts and will be paying Rs.800/- only.
Since then I am paying only Rs.800/- pm and was accepted for a couple of months. Later it was declined to accept and paid the amount ( 3-4 months ) in the association account with an intimation to the president and in writing in the maintenance register.
All through the months, I am writing in the register to convene a meeting again with all the members present to decide futher course of action. I had also indicated till such time, I will be paying Rs.800/- only. No meeting was convened a long as I am in india. I moved ( alone) from Hyderabad on an overseas assigment and now not available in India.
My wife and son are staying alone in the said apartment and my son is attending the intermediate final year examinations. Now the care taker is harrasing my family by disconnecting the water supplies to my apartment and locked the approcah. We broke the gates as there is no drop of water at home and diisconnected the water supply to the care taker and locked the gates.
With a lot of altercation, a meeting was convened without full forum in my absence ( my wife attended the meeting) and my wife raised all the issues. But no one had gone through the rationale and facts and asked to maintain Rs.1000/- for which my wife and my self ( through skyoe/telephone) rejected the proposal and agreed only for Rs.800/- pm ( fixed) + variable expenses ( Rs/Liter water consumption). Even we have told in the meeting that we are not going to pay the back log amount unless the discussion takes place with rationale and logic.
There is no mental peace to me and family and tried to approach police station to register a complaint. I would like to seek an opinion from experts in my next step if the harrasment continues further to me and my family.
Regards
Ramky
