Foreword

The Foreword for the book:

Ever so often, purchasers are unaware of the pitfalls and traps when they buy developer’s properties. When the housing project is abandoned or stalled or its workmanship is shoddy, or when the developer uses sub-standard building materials, purchasers become the innncent victims of these malpractices. Purchasers do not know what to do, who to turn to for help and are left to fend or fight for their own homes against the powerful developers.

To aggravate the situation, purchasers are often left at the mercy of recalcitrant developers who are indifferent to the purchasers’ hardships and sufferings. While purchasers are exposed to the danger of the housing project being abandoned or the developer using poor quality building material or enticing purchaser into their insidious schemes to make quick profits with no sense of accountability for quality housing, the laws and the powers that be seem indifferent to guarantee protection for the purchasers.

Why should purchasers “fight” to protect their homes and the safety of their families living in the homes? Why should purchasers be made to stand alone against rich, powerful and irresponsible developers? Those unfortunate aspirants end up being engulfed in a quagmire of financial nightmare with attending legal complications. Few are able to get out of such situations without serious financial loses.

It is indeed timely that a book of this kind is written. It highlights property purchasers’ plight, rights and risks when buying developers’ properties. It speaks up for and alongside the purchasers. It courageously reveals what purchasers ought to know and do.

It is time for property purchasers to be educated. This book aims to do that. It is truly a wonderful endeavour.

I sincerely congratulate the author for this noble effort.  He is a practicing lawyer, a legal advisor to the National House Buyers Association and a member of the working committee on the coming amendments to the housing development laws in West Malaysia.

Chang Kim Loong AMN

Honourary Secretary General

National House Buyers Association

www.hba.org.my

Through Heaven's Eyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG0a9WFkgzU&feature=related

The lyrics of the music video:

Jethro:
A single thread in a tapestry-
Though its color brightly shine-
Can never see its purpose
In the pattern of the grand design.

And the stone that sits on the very top
Of the mountain's mighty face-
Does it think it's more important
Than the stones that form the base?

So how can you see what your life is worth
Or where your value lies?
You can never see through the eyes of man
You must look at your life,
Look at your life through heaven's eyes.

Lai-la-lai...

A lake of gold in the desert sand
Is less than a cool fresh spring-
And to one lost sheep, a shepherd boy
Is greater than the richest king.

If a man lose ev'rything he owns,
Has he truly lost his worth?
Or is it the beginning
Of a new and brighter birth?

So how do you measure the worth of a man-
In wealth or strength or size?
In how much he gained or how much he gave?
The answer will come,
The answer will come to him who tries
To look at his life through heaven's eyes.

And that's why we share all we have with you,
Though there's little to be found.
When all you've got is nothing,
There's a lot to go around.

No life can escape being blown about
By the winds of change and chance,

And though you never know all the steps,
You must learn to join the dance-
You must learn to join the dance.

Lai-la-lai...

So how do you judge what a man is worth?
By what he builds or buys?

You can never see with your eyes on earth-
Look through heaven's eyes.
Look at your life,
Look at your life,
Look at your life through heaven's eyes!