Saturday, June 15, 2013
Location Location Location ....
If you ever talk to real-estate agent, he will tell you location is everything. For us to move to outer suburbs (even 10km) there has to be something. After wasting many weekends wondering up and down in new estates, it was evident for us the new subdivisions are all about future (at least in the brochures) whereas the present, is an arid dusty playground for big machines. We had no plans to be the pioneer who first settled in the suburb.
So we shift the focused to the suburbs which are at the final of the development stage. We thought there is a good chance of “getting what we see”.
After countless hours again in real-estate websites and many weekends driving pass by the shortlisted blocks, at last we found **The Block**.
It was one of few blocks used as the car park of the old display village. The block was close enough to the main road and more importantly it was nicely overlooking a small lake. The block is bit less than 600 square meters and had a bigger front about 30m.
Both of us were pretty pleased with this. After negotiating with the real-estate agents, we managed bring down the price to a value which we didn’t feel like getting ripped off. Unless you push them harder you don’t know what you can get. Since we were serious about buying this, we threw everything we got and managed to bring down further.
It was a satisfying effort I should say, when you buy the chance of waking up to this scenery every day.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
To build or not to build... thats the biggest question.....
Every man should build a house, plant a tree, and have a son - Agatha Cristie (The Man from the Sea). That wasn't the only good reason for us to start thinking of building our own dream, after spending more than half of our life time (if we ever hit 70) seeing others as our dreams.
It wasn’t that we were lazy or our lack of imagination, probably we didn’t see it as a priority until one day it occurred to us that our home has shrunk because of the growing family.
Centrally there was no urgency what so ever, for us to run around looking for houses, we want to take our time. After few discussions over tea we decided, yep this time we are going to build our own dream home. This is after shifting from one continent to another and living in six different homes.
We first thought of knocking down the house we lived in, which was build thirty years ago, surrounding modest houses which are probably same age as ours. This is very convenient in every possible way, which is close to a major shopping complex, schools, Universities Trains and is walking distance from the tram. But as my wife correctly point out, what’s the point of looking out the window of your newly build house and see the remnants of dreams dreamt 30 year ago. It should be now and we should feel the present. So we are heading to outer suburbs where we can smell “present” in the air.
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