It's A Long Process - I

The selling of our previous home & the buying of the new place were a long one that took exactly 7 months.

14 Jun 09, we sold our first home. Gave up my new job to concentrate on the packing... it's for my health too.

29 Aug, we moved out. Most of our stuff went to the warehouse, mum to sis' while hubby & I went to Aunt GS. We're totally not used to it & felt so insecured at the thought of being homeless. That's when we realised that we've taken for granted what we'd been enjoying - our own home.

13 Sept, we moved from Aunt GS' to Bishan. The week before that we're busy cleaning up the room and getting all necessary items for the few months' stay. We really thank God for the provision. We didn't need to pay rent, not even utilities and could stay there for as long as we wanted to. It's a very different experience for me... it's the 1st time I lived under the same roof with a few different individuals.

Since early July when the OTP was signed, we'd been visiting ID firms to get quotes. All in all, we'd met 6 of them and each came back with a quote that's way over our budget. All of them said the same - we had expensive taste. We actually banked on Anthony, who's the ID for our first home. We paid so little then (minor works though - false ceiling in living+feature wall in living+L-box in MBR+some additional lighting points @ only $1.6K). We got in touch with him even before we bought the new place. Just at that time, he came out to set up his own company & promised to give us a very good price. We obviously had a very different expectation of "a good price". So we're extremely disappointed to be quoted a price that's even higher than the rest of the IDs! Actually we needed more of a contractor than interior designer since we've got our own ideas to do up the place. However, it's just so difficult to find 1... we're in such a desperate state that we contemplated the thought of not renovating our place (ie. not moving in 1st) till we got enough money. We're just not willing to give up the ID ideas we'd for our new home.

Then the last ID, J (he's also the 7th we approached), was actually introduced by our property agent, just when we're about to give up. He's a very nice man.. very honest and accomodative. We're so glad & relieved to have found him as his price was the lowest & it's also the only 1 that's not too far from our budget. Thank God!

Mid Nov, we got our keys & we brought him to our new place for a site visit.