Shoddy developer who take you for a ride.

Review on Puravankara Windermere, Pallikaranai, Chennai

As with everyone seeing ads( off-. course they were winning awards for best real estate developer, ), I Booked one 2BHK apartment in NOV 2016- By this time they had the structure ready and was promised delivery within 6 Months. They also have an interesting system called CRM- who don't have any clue about what they are doing. there is no connection to customers once they take the money.

After multiple delays out of the blue, they announced possession 2019 May.

Had to follow up for 6 months to have rework done on extremely shoddy work carried out in bathroom fittings and plumbing work.

Improper paintwork- which started to fall off after a year.

After a lot of arguments and deliberations, finally out of frustration I took possession. I was still paying EMI.

Now comes the second strike, to avoid penalty on delays they have some interesting schemes, the come with a calculation in such a way that I have to pay delay charges.

People who jumped and bought anything from these people, please resort to online payment, and track all emails send and received.

Many of the flats have the toilets leaking from the floor above which I fear the most. Most faucets are just kept without the fasteners which fall after 2nd use. I had a hand full of hard cement taken out from the kitchen sink pipe( which I don't have an idea how it ended up there), the gap between the tiles is enough for you to fall to the next level.

They had promised high-quality paint- but most of the powdered stuff falls off after you touch its exterior paint falls off within a year.

Now the interesting part, there was a public road within the gated community which they conveniently hid from us.

And last part of creativity- I have my parking slot in another complex, I have to cross two gates and one public road to park my car. I understand that they want me to stay healthy by jogging or walking to the car parking slot over a km. To my query, they wrote an answer telling we don't have any obligation to provide parking at the customer's convenience

There is also a circus called advanced maintenance which the builder is holding a fair portion of the amount at the time I am writing this review.

Finally, to rub salt in the wound they are providing covered car parking which wasn't an option at the time I bought the flat along with one-year maintenance and other amnesties within the same block at a substantially lesser cost.

Conclusion: Premium charges for pathetic construction, materials and finishing, Open area, park, swimming pool, and other amnesties are a joke and a shocking maintenance charge per month.

Lessons learned: Never go with reputation/adds of the developer, Check ground realties talk to the neighbors. Avoid once sided contracts and look for finished apartments and not under construction. We read a hundred reviews to buy a mobile phone but will jump to buy an apartment without thinking anything that is exactly what these people survive on.

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