Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Reality Bites

For last couple of months, we have been working on a project, To find a suitable and good residential apartment for ourselves within the budget and with all facilities, good builder, good interiors, good fixtures and good building maintenance, which has a fantastic view from the balcony, where the apartment gets good sunlight during the winters also and which has good landscaping for our kids to play and a few other things.

I guess, this is the same checklist everybody must be having while looking for their nest in this wide wide world. We also had the same wish list few weeks ago. Slowly and steadily, things kept getting cut off from this list and we were soon compromising on almost everything. We were getting expensive flats, with no interiors done, just bare flats, that too for exorbitant cost, at least some of them. They would say it is 1450 sq ft super area, but actually the flats covered area would be less than 800 sq ft.Phew.

Initially when we started, for the first time, we finally had gone ahead and spoken to a few property agents and they were now showing us the flats. A couple of them, which we saw initially, were good, on the ground floor and with good air and sunlight. We immediately liked both of them and started talking about them. Ha, they only wanted 11 out of 35 as white, rest they wanted in cash.Heart broken, we tried this or that, but they were adament. We had to let go of those deals.

For long then, we were going through the see, like dislike, see round for many builders and floors.