Grandma Liu is indeed not young anymore, but she is in good health, her legs and feet are nimble, and she has a good personality, so she is full of energy.
Zhou Yi hurried forward to help the man down, and said with a smile: "What are you doing? Walking up the stairs to exercise?"
"That's not necessary. Walking on a flat surface can also provide exercise."
Although she is old, we can still chat and joke with each other, and she never gets angry.
Grandma Liu took a few breaths, looked at the elevator next to her, and then said to Zhou Yi, "There's no way I can take the stairs. Xiao Zhou, our property management staff are really a rip-off!"
"That's too bad?" Zhou Yi laughed again: "Grandma Liu, isn't it well known that our property management is a scam? You told me about it when I first moved in."
"Hey, did something happen again?"
Why do I feel like I don’t know anything now? Could it be that I have been addicted to the Internet these days?
Grandma Liu shook her head and said, "Don't you know, Xiao Zhou? The property management has already announced in the group chat that the elevator system has been upgraded starting today. Without an elevator card, you can't press that floor."
"Upgraded so quickly?" Zhou Yi said subconsciously, but when he thought about it, it seemed like it had been quite a while.
During this period of time, I was addicted to chatting with Sister Ling online, and time passed so quickly.
Wait, Zhou Yi suddenly realized something and asked hurriedly, "Grandma Liu, I remember the property management said that anyone who registered within three days could get a free elevator card, right?"
"It's three days, so everyone should have registered. Didn't you register during those three days?"
Grandma Liu sighed and said, "I definitely registered. That day, I got up early to register, and they gave me an elevator card."
"But Xiao Zhou, each household only gets one free elevator card!"
"My family consists of just my husband and me. Logically, one elevator card would be enough, but we don't usually go out together. Now we absolutely need this card. Without it, we can't even press the elevator button."
"My family has two people in it, so what do those with larger families have to deal with? We only have one elevator card, and it's impossible to divide it up. Those who live in high-rise buildings need this."
"But I remember the notice from the property management very clearly. Register within three days and you will get a free elevator card." Zhou Yi was even more puzzled. It didn't make sense that you could contradict yourself with the announcement you issued yourself.
"Xiao Zhou, what kind of people are they? Someone went to argue with them, and guess what the property management said? They said you can register within three days and get free elevator cards, but they didn't specify how many they would give out. The default standard is one per household."
"Tell me, what else can we do?" Grandma Liu shook her head.
"Does that mean there's a fee for the second elevator card within a household?" Zhou Yi asked. "But that's normal. Isn't that a twenty-yuan fee for the access card?"
"Of course there's a fee. This elevator card definitely costs money, but the person in the group told me that if I want to apply for it again, it will cost 200 yuan for one elevator card!"
"And it needs to be upgraded every year, and you have to pay for the upgrade, which is two hundred yuan a year. If you don't pay, you won't be able to use the elevator once the system is upgraded."
Grandma Liu said at this point: "Two hundred yuan for an elevator card, isn't that just robbery? Xiao Zhou, if they charged a normal price, we wouldn't say anything. But at this price, it's pure rip-off!"
"And you have to pay it every year. If you don't pay, you can't take the elevator."
After hearing this, Zhou Yi finally understood. It turned out that there was such a hidden meaning in the property management’s notice that day.
In fact, it’s not a big deal if one household can apply for one for free, but the main thing is that the fee is a bit too high.
"For this price, didn't the owners in our community go to negotiate with the property management?" Zhou Yi asked again.
"I've argued with them. Many people have gone to the property management office, but it's no use. They said there's no problem with charging fees, and they even told those who haven't done it yet to hurry up and do it."
"At the time, everyone thought that with so many people looking for him, he wouldn't upgrade the system so quickly, but he actually upgraded it today."
It is definitely useless to simply go to the other party. Having dealt with Manager Xue of the property so many times, he knows very well that for some small matters, as long as you dare to make a fuss, Manager Xue will compromise if he says so.
Even some small amounts of money, such as parking fees and compensation, were given as soon as they were promised.
After all, it's only a few thousand dollars, which is nothing.
But when it comes to something this big...
After all, it’s an entire community, and this is not an access card. If you don’t have an access card, you can wait a little. If there are people coming in and out frequently, you can just follow them.
The elevator card is different. For owners living on higher floors, you cannot return home without it. It can be said to be a necessity of life.
Add to that the annual upgrades required, and that means a ton of money can be made every year.
Can the property management company easily give up such huge benefits?
As for the reason, it’s even simpler. For safety, this reason can defeat everything no matter where it is used!
Our property management company installed this system for safety reasons, and we upgrade the system every year for the safety of you, the owners.
Do you know that our properties have been making little profit or even making losses for years?
I don’t know either. After all, state-owned enterprises undertake various tasks. If there is any emergency, they really have to take action. But what about property management?
They make no money every year, and even suffer losses every year, but they still want to do it and serve the community owners wholeheartedly. Really, Zhou Yi is moved anyway.
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