thickbie

searching for the right home...part 2

Finally last week (Saturday), we get a chance to see 2 corner unit flats around rivervale and compassvale area. One of them is just opposite Rivervale plaza, which is convenient because the place has NTUC and a food court and I kinda like that fact. But the flat is quite bare and basic which means we have to do a lot of renovaiton. It is also not quite as near to the MRT station as we would've wanted it to be but there's an LRT station about 5 min away...

The second flat we saw was totally different ! It has a more spacious living room because hte owner has done quite a big renovation. Downside is that the renovation that the owner has done does not suit our taste. Personally I think it looks a bit "chee-na" and oldies. So we are in the same position here, that is need to revamp whole house. And worse, we'll have to hack a lot of in built stuff, plus the marble flooring which we really really dislike. But this unit is only 10-15 min away from MRT (walkable) and it has a priviate so called foyer which you can use ! Sigh, so much confusion...

After viewing the 2 houses, we told our agent what we would still consider the 2 units we just saw but we definitely now prefer a corner unit. And we wanted to see some more units since we saw from Classifieds there's some more corner units being put on the market.

Finally our agent arrange to view 4 more house on Monday, after work...sigh, tired tired tired. To make story short, out of the 4 house we really like 1 house which has a so called private area and spacious living room. It also has marble flooring for living room and parquet flooring for bedrooms (yeay !), another thing we kinda like the built in wardrobe that they have made...it's big and really not oldies at all..
So we told our agent we wanted to go for second viewing and that he'll arrange for the following Saturday (which is yesterday)...

So yesterday we did 2nd viewing for 2 units, one which we really like, the other one is the flat was totally renovated but didn't suit our taste. After a second look, the obvious thing comes to our mind. We want the parquet flooring unit ! Yeay....so we decided on that and ask our agent to bargain for us. We are now still in the midst of bargaining (haven't heard from the other side now...) a bit worried, but just pray that things pull through for us....

posted by thickbie @ 11:53 PM