The developer may have representation, but services should be tendered by tenants, at market prices. Ours works very well, they kick out lousy vendors and are always making improvements.

Service charge depends on the number of units, the less the units, the more the cost.

The developer cannot force a home owner to pay service charge or to manage thhe same on their behalf.

The ideal situation is if you buy an apartment, there should be a company set up to own the land and a share in the company should be linked to owning a unit of apartment.

This company should then double up as the management company and control the service delivery to the residents.

You set up a committee that reviews the cost and quality of services the residents wants and agree on the monthly service charge meant to meet the same costs.

Very nice idea, all the buyers of the apartments should own shares in the company giving or buying the services, they should do an audit of services and their costs per month, and then share the cost equally among the share holders, once the developer has sold the units he should not hang around benefitting from the service charges, a security guard is paid 10k, cleaning lady/man 10k, commmon elect and water pm is around 20k so around 50k should be enough for around 20 units.

Nera is currently eyeing to create an owners company, they scheduled a meeting on 11th of this month for owners of Nyayo embakasi be very careful.....open your eyes