New Home @ Tanjong Pagar Plaza

Bought a 3-room HDB at Tanjong Pagar Plaza and has been busy refurnishing for the past month. Its only 59sqm, and nearly 40 years old flat. I have to get used to not having an attached toilet, have to be careful that curtains are wind down when i dress up in the room, be really careful with the long and heavy bamboo pole when i tried to dry the clothes under the sun and getting used of the weak water flow when i shower. And o yeah, the lift, corridor.. ha.. so many grumbles, but am now getting used to it and really like the place, our home.

Everything more or less are settled, got our last batch of furniture consist of a 2 door wardrobe and a queen size bed frame, mattress, pillows. This was requested by our tenant cause we leave a room empty so to furnish according to the tenant needs. Like whether the tenant wants to convert it to an office, kid's room or others.

Des and I both like the place, its really convenient and in fact i gain some weight cause there are just so many things or places to eat. Just one advertisement to advertise our unit for viewing on the weekends between 2-4pm, and it was rented out within a 2 hours of viewing. Actually, the day before, 2 prospective viewer came cause they cant make it on Saturday. First was a Japanese man who brought his translator along, second was an Indian PR. The Japanese man did not offer, guess he was not used to the HDB environment, the Indian PR offered 2 times, he really like to rent the place but the price he offered did not match our target.

Next day, 6 different groups came and view the house, almost all offered a price and then 3 groups starts to outbid each other.. almost all of them stayed for one hour plus or throughout. Initially we were worrying about the response and whether can we get out targeted rental rate cause of the slowing down of the property price. Well, it did match our target rental rate, we rented out to a nice Vietnamese lady. In fact, we can even rented out higher cause there is this Canadian guy who came last min, he likes the place but he wants to email the pictures he took to show his wife first and asked us to wait for him. However we decide not to wait for the Canadian guy ans as we feel bad for the other prospective tenants who waited for us to give a ready answer from 2-4pm and what if his wife do not like the place... Before the Canadian guy left, he said to Desmond, actually this unit can even fetch higher than the offer we got. Well, let's not be greedy since it hit our targeted price.

Will update some pictures later on so i can still get to see our house though we may not stay in it.