Small House To Slightly Bigger House, From Little Saving To Alot Of Loans

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Decided to start this T-blog to see what I have achieved so far..

My story started after I told hubby "lets sell our house and buy a bigger house so that we can stay together with his mum, grandma & sister"..daring move..I have 3 kids and staying just next block to my in-laws..every sat i will bring my kids to in-law house while my hubby went to work(hubby grandma loves the kids). And we noticed that ususally the kids is around she will not have much complain abt have headaches, etc..so to cut the story short, i told him every weekend also go over sometime i just wanna stay home also cant, so might as well stay together.

We are not rich to buy landed..so I think i will forever be HDB taitai...I told him we will have an EM..at least there a floor different if i need to cool down...lol planning for the worst..

I plan to have the room at first floor be grandma & maid room..maid will slp with her so that if she need to use the toilet, theres someone to help her..and she need not have to go up and down the stairs..i intend to convert 2nd bedroom to MBR and i will take that room..while MIL, SIL and my daughter can have MBR..my 2 boys will have bed room 3..I was thinking how perfect was my plan..so after discuss with hubby here's his first reply.."Dont complain to me next time if your quarrel with my mum".. and we started looking around for an EM..

MIL love yishun alot and will not move out of there..to be exact..she love Khatib..so we started looking around..in property guru...NO EM AT KHATIB for sale for months...mil still dont wanna view any em out of khatib not even those near to Yishun MRT...than there's 1 for sale just opposit her block..is at 2nd floor, the agent bring us there..condition was soso..but as we stay at that area..we notice the house have morning and even sun..is a nono to us..and the other unit was asking a sky high cov of 130k..sigh so we waited..finally after abt 1mth plus to 2mths..we saw another unit at khatib up for sale..this time round the location was gd..somewhere near MRT..mid floor..and so we went for the viewing..both me and hubby love that place on first viewing..but COV also high..so we ask agent to arrange for a 2nd viewing for MIL (if she said no den we dont buy since COV so high)...she and SIL went for viewing with my kids..and everyone like that place..my MIl was very comfortable with that place...so we negotiated with the seller and manage to bring down 2k..COV 63k..now think back still feel superb heartpain..

so after signing, we sold our 4rm urgently and COV was not as expected..and now i am left with tight budget to try to renovate the house..will be getting my keys in mid- Dec..

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step 2 after signing 1st appt..

1. get a fengshui shi for the house (7 pax in the house hopefully fs can help to enhance the harmony)
   
2. get quote for renovation (will only do 3 toilets and some touch up)
   
3. wait for 2nd appt
   

done with FS..manage to get one that is within my budget (remember im officially broke after getting an EM) - $480 for whole house audit plus individual person analysis (superb worth..report was 43pages) will meet FSM on sunday to go thru it..

quotation, gotten afew..lowest was 12k highest 30k...so far have 2 contractor in mind..will provide more detail when finalise.

[Sygnur 0]

Congrats on owning an EM... It's a bold move and im impressed by ur good intention( making ur mum in law happy). It will be a challenge but im sure u'll be able to pull it through...

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Floor plan

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Some pics of the house, taken by my agents

living room

kitchen will not be doing much since is still looks oki but will be relaminating some area

[salseraritz 0]

Some pics of the house, taken by my agents

living room

kitchen will not be doing much since is still looks oki but will be relaminating some area

Oh wow...congrats in getting this unit...still looking good.. flooring grilles windows stairs and kitchen in good condition lucky u... and yes..

Looks like u got a nice & cooling location... greenery..

And have to agree with Sygnur ...impressed that u have interest to accomodate for ur in

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tv console.. I really dislike this but due to budget constrain we will keep it and see what we can do on it

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Yes indeed the house condition was quite gd thus we'll only doing the toilets, piping and bedroom.. The water piping can see leaking and corrosion..

[andrina 0]

Wow! Congrats for Finding such a nice unit! U will save a lot of renovation costs!! Looking forward to ur updates!

[cleong 1]

It appears to be on a relatively low floor - you may wish to select laminates and paint colours, even furniture that contribute to a light an airy effect, as the low floor/greenery will filter out some of the daylight into the house.

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Can't wait to meet up with my fsm tomorrow.. I received a call from him to go thru some items as I was very anxious to know what's in the report but he tried all his way still can't get the 66mb report to be uploaded or send to me.. Anyway from what he said on the phone earlier somehow most of the thing he said abt me, my kids and hubby are quite exact.. Like my characters career luck, my hubby and no1 not close, my little boy being hard to control and lazy, etc.. He mention the house was not really gd as in is earth element and too much of it plus my family members might affect promotion or advancement.. Hopefully tomorrow he will advise us some solution..

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My plan for the house.. To renovate 3 toilets and convert bedrm 2 to another Mbr

[myrick88 0]

Hi,

Possible to share with me your fsm contact as I am looking for one too.

Thanks.

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Can't wait to meet up with my fsm tomorrow.. I received a call from him to go thru some items as I was very anxious to know what's in the report but he tried all his way still can't get the 66mb report to be uploaded or send to me.. Anyway from what he said on the phone earlier somehow most of the thing he said abt me, my kids and hubby are quite exact.. Like my characters career luck, my hubby and no1 not close, my little boy being hard to control and lazy, etc.. He mention the house was not really gd as in is earth element and too much of it plus my family members might affect promotion or advancement.. Hopefully tomorrow he will advise us some solution..

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Pmed u

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Design for my louver door