Well... its time to take a philosophical view on house hunting? this is what I enjoyed today... while checking out the three potential houses, I got to also do the following around the neighbourhoods... (1) Walked some trails on the nature reserve at Mac Ritchie, (2) Checked out a HDB area called Ghim Moh and found a nice community center with activities for the kids and yoga and cooking for olivia. (3) Found Saddle Club, a children's horsey riding place and free manure!! the essential bit to my organic garden and worm farm, I am already receiving orders to build vege gardens and plan to charge an arm and leg.
So have now looked at over 30 houses...
House 1: Experience is to no trust landlords that tarik harga or buy time or take their time as they hold us up and then dump us for a better offer. Nice house, nice garden and trees, not so nice was the one strange room and the PMs residence with the Gurkhas nearby.
House 2: Someone outbid us. Actually am glad we didn't get it, its too big to maintain, unfortunately another one has come up but the bidding etc process will take us to end march.
House 3: is quite perfect... nice older house, nice land, nice pool, near a nice club... nice wife landlord but husband wants 20% more than our budget. House not rented for a year but I guess they are rich enough.
House 4: Got snapped up before we could try and bid as we failed on house 3.
House 5: Near Holland Village and our favourite restaurant (where loren took me on first date and proposed a year later), bid with them now... has big big park outside for the kids, not so much land but decent, near Ghim Moh so I have a chinese dr, wet market, chinese dispensary, hawker food, Ulu Pandan Community Center, all close by.
House 6: considering.... its like a merge of our taiwan house (big basement for billard table, wine cellar, nature reserve just behind) and SA (large toilets...), nice owner but in Upper Thomson. Weekdays will still take me 30mins to get the kids to school and its huge, like 10,000 sq ft (who needs so much space?). The guests have their own outhouse with living room and small kitchen (and will never leave). There is rooms we will never use? First time I have seen a dining room that will make our dining table look tiny and even loren's throne chair! Oh and the top floor has a laundry chute down to the laundry room (huge). Kitchen is huge, everything is huge, wonder if I"ll lose the kids? Apparently we may have snakes and monkeys as visitors too but nothing our dogs can't take care of...
House 7: Not bad but should not be the budget we pay, could be lower, small park nearby, Bukit Timah living.
So... lets see what tomorrow brings, there is another older house like a black and white to view, Maybe news on House 5 will also be positive?
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