Thursday 6 January 2022, Day 98 of Level 1, birthday of Alex von Ulmenstein and Mullerie Taljaard 🌹🌹
Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏
#grateful for a beautiful 27 C degree day, making Camps Bay very busy, with a very strong late afternoon South Easter, meaning it will be even warmer tomorrow; for a birthday call to my Alex, starting to plan his visit to Cape Town in 15 days ❤️; for preparing for my client meetings this afternoon; for a successful visit to the Civic Center, to renew my car license, but annoyed that one has to enter from the back of the building without any signage, and answer numerous questions just to be allowed in, for being able to jump the queue of persons who had waited for 90 minutes into the red Continue reading →
The Sweet Service Award goes to Sandak-Lewin and its CEO Carl Smit, for his very surprising but welcome acceptance of my request that his company not increase its management fee to our apartment block by more than the CPI of 4%, having taken 10% increases from us in the past three years, without permission from us as Trustees. Mr Smit has not been very professional to me in the past, in his response when I have written to him about the poor service we receive from his Portfolio Manager Greg Anderson since he took over our apartment block two years ago, not ever having set foot in it, and being very poor in responding to emails, or in actioning maintenance issues!