Our Life Together

There are external companies that help you to do the defects checking these days (everything is possible now). So basically these companies offer a package that consists of 3 inspection trips to your home, which typically costs around $400.  1st Inspection: Identify defective works required and submit the report  2nd Inspection: Joint inspection appointment  3rd Inspection: Conduct the final inspection on the rectification works carried out We felt that it wasnt necessary and decided to carry out the inspection and follow-up by ourselves. I trust my eagle eyes and nitpickiness. I read online that some couples have a long list of items to bring to their new home during defects checking such as ladder, pail, torchlights, broom and what not.  We simply downloaded and printed a sample BTO defects checklist shown below and  brought along together with a few pens and post-it pads. That's all.. 😂 I think we took around 45 min to an hour to check throug...

We were rather disappointed by the first draft of the 3D drawings. The overall look and feel of the drawings were really not what we have envisioned our home to be. We were expecting to confirm the designs of the house before the key collection. However, as we were not satisfied with the 3D drawings, we had to spend time to really re-think and try to salvage the situation.  It would have been perfect if we loved the 3D drawings and just a few days later receive the keys to our home. BUT... since it did not turn out the way that we expected, we decided to meet our ID, talk over it and head down to Hafary again to re-choose some of the tiles.  This time, we headed down to Hafary at Tradehub 21 after he finished doing the on-site inspection and measurements at our new house. Although the Tradehub outlet was smaller than the one that we visited in Eunos, but they still had a rather large selection of tiles for us to choose from.  We first started to look for a r...

The day that we have been waiting for is finally here.. KEY COLLECTION!! 🏠 Our appointment was at 10:15am. We arrived earlier at Toa Payoh HDB Hub to have breakfast at Macdonalds before going to take our queue number.  Dad and grandma arrived while we were waiting for our queue number to be called. When our number was called, we went to the counter to sign all relevant papers, decide on the loan amount, the number of years, the percentage deduction for each person, pay our first conservancy charges, etc..  AND FINALLY..... WE WERE PRESENTED WITH OUR KEYS TO OUR HOME!!! 😍😍 At that moment there were too many things to take in, it didnt feel surreal yet. We went to level 2 of HDB HUB to open our SP account for the utilities. Once that  was settled, we headed straight to our new home to open the doors! 😁 There were so many contractors camping at the void deck of our block.. I guess it was only when we entered the compound and saw our block tha...

Our block PCD was scheduled to be end December 2018. We were expecting to get our keys in mid January 2019, in which the renovation works will be delayed as CNY falls on 5-6 February 2019. BUT....p eople from our block started receiving sms and email from HDB regarding their key collection appointment!  The dates given seemed pretty random but the first lucky couple was going to get their keys on 7th November. Obviously we did not receive anything. 😩 Previously, I emailed our HDB sales officer requesting for early key collection and she assured me that our application will be placed under urgent basis. So I decided to spam her mailbox. 😂 Actually it wasn't that bad. I just emailed her 3 times in a span of 1 week. I was constantly refreshing my mailbox hoping to see a reply.  Lo and behold! We received the sms notification and email on 5th November that we can collect the keys to our new home on 14 November!! 😄😄 Super excited and both of us kept wondering if we were ...