Argh! Selling and Buying houses is so taxing
Selling house:
- Look for agents
- Allow potential buyers to view my house
- Receive cheque from potential buyer
- Ton of paperworks to settle
- Allow HDB staff to view my house
- Then the waiting game begin:
- 1st appointment about 1 1/2 months later (Great, DH not in town, need to look for lawyer to issue power of attorney letter)
- 2nd appointment, 4 weeks after first appointment
- Apply leave to attend 1st and 2nd appointment
- More paperwork to settle
- Handover keys and officially sold house
Buying house:
- Called agents to view houses
- Ideal house, ask Fengshui master to give 2nd opinion
- Issue cheque to seller
- Ton of paperworks to settle
- Look for Banker to issue home loan
- Transfer money to bank
- More paperwork to settle and issue another cheque
- The waiting game begin:
- 1st and 2nd appointment, pay more money and more paperworks to settle
- Again, have to apply leave
- Receive keys from seller and officially own the house
Renovation:
- Get Fengshui master to look at floorplan
- Look for ideal interior designer (ID)
- Get quotations from IDs
- Apply for renovation loan from bank
- Before renovation start, Fengshui master to decide where to hack
- Apply for more leave to make sure contractor doing a good job
- Renovationn complete, more cleaning
- Look for the prefect "Guan Yin", bring it to temple for praying ceremony
- Fengshui master to advice move-in procedure
- Furniture move in
- Finally officially move in and to plan for house warming party
Ok, what do we learn from here:
- Don't be too harsh and jump into buying a house. Make sure is it 'worth' buying, if not will end up like us, selling and buying a new ones.
- Fengshui is very important
After all these efforts put in, that's what I called dream home!
- Look for agents
- Allow potential buyers to view my house
- Receive cheque from potential buyer
- Ton of paperworks to settle
- Allow HDB staff to view my house
- Then the waiting game begin:
- 1st appointment about 1 1/2 months later (Great, DH not in town, need to look for lawyer to issue power of attorney letter)
- 2nd appointment, 4 weeks after first appointment
- Apply leave to attend 1st and 2nd appointment
- More paperwork to settle
- Handover keys and officially sold house
Buying house:
- Called agents to view houses
- Ideal house, ask Fengshui master to give 2nd opinion
- Issue cheque to seller
- Ton of paperworks to settle
- Look for Banker to issue home loan
- Transfer money to bank
- More paperwork to settle and issue another cheque
- The waiting game begin:
- 1st and 2nd appointment, pay more money and more paperworks to settle
- Again, have to apply leave
- Receive keys from seller and officially own the house
Renovation:
- Get Fengshui master to look at floorplan
- Look for ideal interior designer (ID)
- Get quotations from IDs
- Apply for renovation loan from bank
- Before renovation start, Fengshui master to decide where to hack
- Apply for more leave to make sure contractor doing a good job
- Renovationn complete, more cleaning
- Look for the prefect "Guan Yin", bring it to temple for praying ceremony
- Fengshui master to advice move-in procedure
- Furniture move in
- Finally officially move in and to plan for house warming party
Ok, what do we learn from here:
- Don't be too harsh and jump into buying a house. Make sure is it 'worth' buying, if not will end up like us, selling and buying a new ones.
- Fengshui is very important
After all these efforts put in, that's what I called dream home!
posted by Dor at 11:32 AM
2 Comments:
sounds like a headache, but it will be worth it in the end.
Sounds like alot of work! Normally, it will eb good to get a good recommendation to a responsible and experienced housing agent, who will help you sell and buy the house, as well as recommend you to reliable and good renovators. Good housing agents know the basic fengshui and will advise you on that! How do I know? My mom is one, and I hear her talk about these stuff all the time. Hehe.. Anyway, hope everything goes smoothly for you now. =)
Btw, that halter top is really cute! I never knew Knitty had such a pattern.
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