Taiwanese Actress Yao Yao Apologises For Owing A Year’s Condo Maintenance Fees & Leaving Parcels In Lobby

Taiwanese actress Yao Yao has been accused of being a bad neighbour after she reportedly defaulted on her condo maintenance fees and inconvenienced the life of fellow residents.

Recently, it was reported that the 33-year-old star had failed to pay a year’s worth of maintenance fees, amounting to approximately NT$49K (S$2,055).

According to reports, Yao Yao currently lives in a 20 sqm luxury apartment which she purchased for 15 million (S$630K) in Taipei’s Xinyi District nine years ago.

She is required to pay NT$4,100 (S$172) for the building’s maintenance every month, which she initially did.

However, over time, Yao Yao fell behind on payments, even though they could easily be done through bank transfer.

The management had to repeatedly send her reminders before she would pay up, and the payments stopped entirely in May last year.

According to reports, the management had issued many official reminders to the actress but to no avail.

It even applied for enforcement through the court last November, only for the legal document to be rejected by Yao Yao, resulting in the order becoming void as it was “not served” to the parties involved.

The management had no choice but to publicly call the actress out by placing a notice in the lift lobby.

The notice stated that a resident named “Guo X Yao” — Yao Yao’s real name is Guo Shu Yao — had accumulated over a year’s worth of unpaid maintenance fees, and has to pay NT$49K (S$2,055) within seven days or the management would once again seek enforcement through legal means.

Yao Yao only cleared her outstanding payments after seeing the notice.

But that was not the only issue the management had with the actress.

Yao Yao apparently also has a habit of purchasing stuff online but did not collect them when they were delivered.

She had left more than 10 big parcels in the lobby for nearly six months before retrieving them.

When the management posted public warnings asking her to remove her items, the actress was captured on CCTV taking the notices down and ripping them up.

The management later informed her that tearing the notices constitutes vandalism or mischief, and told her to remove her items before they took legal action. Only then did Yao Yao retrieve her packages.

The actress has since issued an apology for her behaviour.

Yao Yao explained that due to her busy work schedule and frequent travels, she had “neglected to handle [her] daily affairs properly”.

“But that’s not an excuse and I have reflected on myself and will settle this as soon as possible,” she assured.

Yao Yao then promised to be accountable for herself in future and would ask her family to assist in paying her maintenance fees promptly.

“I’m really sorry for causing trouble to neighbours and the building’s management committee,” she said.