PURAVANKARA : Another name for thugs

Review On Puravankara Builders, Bangalore

I too'am one of those hapless beings who fell into a trap called " Purva reveria" promoted by Puravankara Projects in airport road in Marathahalli, Bangalore.

As had been mentioned earlier by other victims their energetic marketing team played me in too. If you are planning to buy from Purva then please decide after reading below:

When you make your intentions known to one of the marketeers, you would be followed by them as wolves. From 7:30 am to 9:30 pm you would get calls about the apartments being sold as hotcakes and any further delay on your part would make you loose the privilege of being a Purva owner.

Finally you fall prey to their promises and pay in the cheque, and start dreaming about the possible day that you would enter your house.

This is when the real fun starts.

1. As had been told by one of our friends here, purva cleverly delays sending the demand letter

to the bank, triggering a delay in your payment schedule. You suddenly get a letter stating that

"delayed payments would attract interests". Now after reading the other reviews

I realize that this is a planned ploy to meet the "known" delay in completion.

1. Then you would be sent a notice that if you need to make any modifications to the house "it is now" or else never. Here too, purva sees opportunities to mint money. Even ten rupees from your pocket, if it is suckable, they will suck. Just to change the switch point a feet above the

designated place, they would charge you 7000 bugs. You will slowly start to feel uneasy now.

1. Then finally you some how make the payments since the completion date is approaching.  You call them up and they give you false progress reports over the phone. In one of the calls they would say, it is already completed Sir, upon digging further, they would say that a model apartment in another block is done and you can have a look, yours would be a ditto of it. And it would take just fifteen more days to finish it off. No, you would start to become a bit uneasier.

   
   




2. Thinking that within fifteen days your house would be complete, you would commit to your current owner that you would be vacating the house by such and such date. He would start searching for a new tenant, so on and so forth. After 15 days you find your apartment/ flat to be in the same state as before. You call after sales, they don’t pick up the phone. This would anger you now. After 15 attempts the Great Mr.After sales manager would come on line and he is the epitome of politeness, I tell you. All that he doesn’t do is bite you. After a hello sir, he starts barking, you bang him right and left and cut the call. You start to feel depressed straight away, and in the corner of your heart you get a feeling that this had been a bad choice.

   
   




3. After lot of such, over the phone, in person fighting your house would be brought to shape in a hurried manner. You go to the house after office, in twilight and are somewhat happy that your barking are yielding something, but while driving back you realize …the flat is done, but where are the lifts?, where are the stairs?, Construction is still going on and people are moving around with helmets, forget the car park, what about electrical connections?, what about drinking water?, Damn it, by this time you would be so mad that you would have jumped a signal and a few auto men and yellow boards would have cursed you.

   
   




4. After this, registration of the houses would start and you would need to sign off with the builder that your house is in “as promised” condition. You take your wife and parents to the house on the weekend in daylight and now you would be pissed off. The tiles would be laid hook and crook, doors when closed will struck shut and you need 2 to pull it open, then the glass windows will be full of cement and white paint. Nothing is proper. You feel extremely depressed by now. You go and complain to the Great Mr. After sales manager, again another fifteen days!. You are fed up with it and decide to go about the registration and call the same manager and ask him to send you a “to do list” or ”to pay list”. He gives you a list of “to Pay”. This would contain miscellaneous component, which he says is bribe to BDA.( this component is in 5 figures!). By this time you are torn and your house owner and you are not in talking terms for the frequent change in plans.

   
   




5. Finally you pay all of it up and then get in the house, coughing and scratching amidst all the dust and fear of something falling on your head but you wouldn’t be able to keep up with rising rent and EMI. You use the bathroom and the water wouldn’t drain out, the slope of the floor is in the opposite direction!. You call the electrician to fit the fans, you open the socket and you don’t find any connecting wires inside atall, you also realize that the ceiling height is shorter than normal, then the glass doors wouldn’t lock properly for the walls are crooked. The electrical supply is through Gensets and you switch on your PC and the geyser, it trips.You would open the tap one day and you find red colored soot coming out.

   
   

You call up the support staff and again “ FIFTEEN DAYS”. I don’t have words to define your state now.

1. You meet one of the Puravankaras( Girish or Ravi)while he is on an onsite visit and tell him all your vows, instead of giving you solutions, he would ask you what was the rate / sq ft you paid .you say 2245 he replies back, talk to marketing and they would take it for 3000. You feel as if you are eating shxx and also wonder if these people eat currency notes for lunch!.

   
   




2. As a perfect jolt, you hear that the lift in a particular block has had a free fall from 9th floor to the 3rd floor with a person inside it.!. You would agree that the house is in no way complete with the current status as compared to the promised date of completion. You go and ask for compensation ….not another fifteen days… you would be said that you had missed your payments on a few occasions and defaulters are not eligible.

   
   

As an icing on the cake, your friend would visit your place, with his family and his wife would claim that it has started to look as a resort as promised, by looking at the palms that they had planted near the compounds!. You will be searching for an answer and give a wry smile with an ”Yes”……. Purva wins!.

Think over.

People might think that by disclosing this I would be undervaluing the property. I don’t care, when I myself had been so undervalued. What remains of my “dream” house? To hell with it.

I realise that I have bought the house from Thugs.

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