Asian couple buys house, accuses Chinese developer of refusing to pay fine!
How would you feel if you moved into a new home and found you couldn't cook or prepare vegetables?
An Asian couple living in Oakland had this problem some time ago.
Narrow corridors are a headache for first-time home buyers.
Thomas Cho and his wife, Sol Yoon, bought a house on Helekino Street in Westgate, West Auckland, in 2021.
The kitchen of the new house should be equipped with gas heating equipment, and gas canisters should be installed on the exterior walls. However, when they moved in, they found that the passage was blocked by a huge water tank, and the passage was only 47 centimeters wide (instead of 60 centimeters), so the staff on the shelves could not push the trolley through, and naturally the 45-kilogram gas canister could not be installed.
Since there were no large gas cylinders, they could only place small gas cylinders on top of the bin.
Despite moving in two years ago, the issue remained unresolved, so Cho took the developer, Kedar Civil Engineering, to court for 16,01704 NOK (this is the amount of compensation that Cho received after consulting the plumber).
In September 2023, the court upheld CHO's claim despite the fact that the construction company had not yet paid the price.
According to the New Zealand Herald, Christy Shaoi Peng, head of Kedar Civil Engineering, said in response to the transfer letter:"If you comply with the court order, we will have to liquidate our company and you will not get a penny. However, we will give you some subsidies to compensate for the inconvenience you have caused us.
Developer: Fully legal and compliant.
In an interview with the New Zealand Herald, Mr Pang said that the cistern was designed according to the engineer's blueprints, otherwise the house would not even have received a Certificate of Compliance (CCC). He said he would not buy the home.
If we don't have an atmospheric cylinder, we can use a small cylinder. The water tank and gas system will work normally, and the customer will not have a problem"。
But Mr. Chow disagreed, explaining that as an ordinary consumer, he did not believe that the operator knew about the gas system and that the corridor was too small. The seller stated at the time that the property was open for business as usual with full licenses and permits.
Jared Guojun Cha, a former construction manager at Peng and Kedar, also learned that he was ordered to pay 30,000 nur to the owner for not pouring concrete for the driveway of the house built by another company.
At the time, the company filed for bankruptcy before it lost money.
Mr. Peng said in an interview some time ago that he reached an agreement with the 2021 landlord after the fact, but in the case of the Cho family, he believes that the company has the right to find a more favorable solution to solve the problem.
In view of the current difficult market and economic conditions, we emphasize that our financial situation makes it difficult for the company to repay in full, which is not a threat, but a reflection of economic reality, and we remain committed to compensating Thomas Cho and Saul Yoon and hopefully avoid bankruptcy"。