I'm a First Qatar customer and I fully agree with Camelme's experience and with Every Mother who said they should be closed down. I was told the maximum I would pay would be QR50,000 and now I'm looking at over QR130,000.
I have not recieved any written notification from FQ about these fees. The only way I found out about them was through this forum post
and I then called FQ to confirm or deny this post. Their responses to me, and other owners confirm this post. I have asked repeatedly for these fees to be put in writing, but they simply will not do it and now refuse to answer my phone calls or emails. I believe, again through a forum post, that the written fees will be distributed to FQ home owners 3 weeks away, which is then only 2 mths out from completion. 2 months to find more than QR80,000 extra in fees. Again no letter or information from First Qatar.
When it comes to transperancy with their customers, it appears FQ's idea of this concept is to keep people in the dark. They want to blame everyone else for this issue and pass it off as the customers problem. It is clear in their post that they do not see this as their issue or problem, although Qatar Cool disagree completly.
This sort of developer should not be allowed to act or operate this way in Qatar, or anywhere else for that matter, and it is certainly not putting the Pearl project and other reputable developers in a good light. They give the industry in Qatar a bad name.
What is needed is a government body to regulate in these matters, expose companies like this and protect the industry, both professional developers and customers, from things like this. It is companies like this and their actions that ruin it for the professional, honest developers.
First Qatar, transperancy is not a shade of black or grey.
I'm a First Qatar customer and I fully agree with Camelme's experience and with Every Mother who said they should be closed down. I was told the maximum I would pay would be QR50,000 and now I'm looking at over QR130,000.
I have not recieved any written notification from FQ about these fees. The only way I found out about them was through this forum post
http://www.qatarliving.com/node/607474
and I then called FQ to confirm or deny this post. Their responses to me, and other owners confirm this post. I have asked repeatedly for these fees to be put in writing, but they simply will not do it and now refuse to answer my phone calls or emails. I believe, again through a forum post, that the written fees will be distributed to FQ home owners 3 weeks away, which is then only 2 mths out from completion. 2 months to find more than QR80,000 extra in fees. Again no letter or information from First Qatar.
When it comes to transperancy with their customers, it appears FQ's idea of this concept is to keep people in the dark. They want to blame everyone else for this issue and pass it off as the customers problem. It is clear in their post that they do not see this as their issue or problem, although Qatar Cool disagree completly.
This sort of developer should not be allowed to act or operate this way in Qatar, or anywhere else for that matter, and it is certainly not putting the Pearl project and other reputable developers in a good light. They give the industry in Qatar a bad name.
What is needed is a government body to regulate in these matters, expose companies like this and protect the industry, both professional developers and customers, from things like this. It is companies like this and their actions that ruin it for the professional, honest developers.
First Qatar, transperancy is not a shade of black or grey.