When A Choice Is Not A Choice

Do you own a house ? How do you find it before you owned your very first house ? Those staying with parents no need to say lar...Well, I guess none of us would say it's easy. I think finding "the house" of your dream is kinda nonsense. There are always pros and cons on whichever house you are looking. There is no so-called Ultimate House or Perfect House. Yes, Dream House does exists...it's in your dream !

Let's see what's the criteria you need to observe before you can choose the house that really suits you. The criteria here might vary according to your financial background, superstitious, believing, and so on and so forth. Ok, let's have a look.

Top 10 Criteria to be observed for buying a house in Kuching

1. Flood
2. Price
3. Type of house
   
4. Distance from Town/Work
5. Number of years left for land tenure
   
6. Traffic Jam
   
7. Noise
8. Type of soil
9. Superstitious
10. Direction of Sun
    

Flood

For the past few years, Kuching was flooded for a few times. It was during Chinese New Year and it shocked everyone in Kuching. But there are only a few places left that was not flooded. So, they take that opportunity to increase the price of the houses ! Besides that, a lot of Si Bu Kia *cough* *cough* came out and causing the price of the house increased !

Price

Yeah, the price of materials keep increasing and yet nobody can stop this. Newspaper keep saying the price of the house will keep on increasing until the end of September this year. It says 15% more to be increased. That's bad. So, the longer you wait, the more you pay. So, to wait or not to wait ? wait is because we are still saving money ! No money how to buy house !? Another thing is our salary lor, if small salary how to buy ?

Type of house
Double Storey Semi-Detached ? Double Storey Intermediate Terrace ? Double Storey Corner Terrace ? Single Storey Semi-Detached ? Single Storey Intermediate Terrace ? Single Storey Corner Terrace ? Flat ? Apartment ? Condominium or Detached !? @.@!? Depends on your wallet lorr...the thicker wallet you have, the bigger type you choose lor...I think Flat, Apartment and Condominium are not recommended ! alang-alang lih~ I mean if possible don't buy those lar~

Distance from town/work
Distance is quite a problem as well. You just can't afford to pay the petrol and yet the price of the petrol is keep increasing at the same time. Goodness...So, cannot buy too far lor...ok, what's next ?

Number of years left for land tenure
Yes, you can buy a second hand house. Normally it's land tenure left 30 years, the most. By the time you finish paying, your land tenure also ended. duh ?

Traffic Jam
Traffic Jam is not that bad yet as compare to KL(Kuala Lumpur). But there are some places are quite jam in the morning as well as evening. So, are you ready to have KL-liked life at Kuching ? Then might as well go KL ? sigh...

Noise
Noise here represents a couple types of noises. It's either due to your house is too near to shophouses, main road, airport, in the eye of the city...and so on. So, do you mind those sounds ?

Type of soil
Yeah, this would be some group of people's main criteria or vice versa. If the soil is being filled by the developer for not more than 3 years and they started to build your house, you better be careful. Meaning that, it(your house) might cracked after a few years. So, it would be better to buy a hilly land house.

Superstitious
Some people look at "feng shui" and said that your house can not face a church where it's cross actually pointed sharp at your house. Besides this I believe there are more which I never came across. "Pantang this and pantang that". Check if there are cemetery nearby just in case you are scared of "friends" or "companion" during your night sleep.

Direction of Sun
This is quite important as well. As we know Sun rises from east and went down at west. So, make sure your bedroom is not facing west. Otherwise, you will be having an oven room during night time.

So, at the end of the day, NO NEED TO BUY !

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