Disappointed with Hiranandani OMR Chennai apartment quality and amenities.
The exterior looks good but faced multiple challenges with apartment quality including poor finishing, visible red marks on Italian marble, misaligned walls causing doors not closing properly which had to be rebuild, missing cables, switches not working, and multiple other basic and critical issues. Hiranandani support team was terrible and had to be chased multiple times to get issues resolved.
No corpus fund was provided to building associations. There were serious gaps in building safety aspects including absence of fire extinguishers provision in high rise buildings, fire pumps not working, water pumps in poor condition, intercoms not working, etc. The STP water treatment doesn’t meet government guidelines, and buildings are spending enormous amount on water consumption from lorry water which is a serious risk for residents. There is no provision for water meters and letter boxes. Part of basement parking is right below central podium, which had a leakage issue and the acidic liquid dropping from it ruined so many cars. The facility is built with beauty aspect but not safety and utility.
The garden and club house is retained by builder leaving very little UDS for apartment owners. At the time of agreement, we signed on club house part without understanding the repercussion. It was one sided agreement with it becoming cash cow for builder. We paid one time large membership fees on the name of lifetime membership when purchasing apartment, and are now forced to pay continuously rising yearly maintenance charges for clubhouse which is neither maintained properly nor has adequate safety mechanisms. If you don’t pay this yearly maintenance charges then your lifetime membership fees will be forfeited.
For an investor, it is certainly not a desirable property as we can still get the apartments in this community in same price as it was sold 5 years back. In addition, the builder already charge you high premium at the time of purchase which automatically makes property valuation low compared to other equally standard apartments.