REHAB and apartment owners
This is in reference to the letter published in The Daily Star on August 10, 2008 from an apartment owner who described his predicament after buying an apartment from one of the very well known builders. As another sufferer, I would like to express my bitter experience on my way to becoming an apartment owner that is being built by a low-profile builder.
I had an agreement with a developer in 2002 that they will hand over the apartment in 2003 and I have to pay taka 16 lakh (excluding the registration fess and others). Firstly, they took taka eight lakh as down payment and they spent the money for other business instead of constructing the apartment. In 2005 they agreed to return my money but before that they wanted me to return the deed of agreement which I refused. Then in 2006 they demanded another seven lakh taka (i.e. I had to pay 23 lakh taka instead of 16 lakh taka as per the agreement) and I paid that money taking loan from my relatives, banks and other sources. At last I could register the apartment at the end 2007 but the developer after taking all this money is not giving electricity yet and my wife and me are spending Tk 20,000/- per month for nothing. Readers may ask why I did not go to court. The answer is that the developers hire more efficient lawyers (with our money!) that we common people cannot afford.
REHAB claim that they are clean and not corrupt, then why are they so critical of the government move? If they are clean and have no intention of cheating people, they should have rather congratulated the government for making such a law.
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