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My humble salutations at your divine lotus feet Swamiji 🙇‍♀️💐

After making couple of house owners rich we have decided to own a house….

Buying a house/constructing is definitely a life time experience…Because rest of ur life you will be paying the EMI 😛

As soon as I enter any property website, the pop-up comes, ‘how may i help u’

I thought buying a house is so easy, there are so many people to help us!!

So after telling our requirement and our budget they will say, ‘we will get back to u’ and not many have come back after that 😉

Since we have paid rent for both apartment and individual house, we have a fair idea what to look for while buying a house…

And best thing is, to help you with decision, you have free site visits too to model apartment and villas!!

Since it was free, we went to couple of site visits to understand our requirements…

After couple such visits, strangely our requirements have totally changed…..

Let’s site visit apartments first…

To start with, they will have model apartment…this model apartment will always be the highest dimension apartment in their project, which will be out of our budget anyway!!

You will feel u r buying a mansion in a high rise building when u see these model apartments, they make it look really spacious…i think they will have all custom made furniture , which will be small in size!!…and also there will not be doors for any rooms etc…what else they do to make it look bigger God only knows…in reality the actual one will be like cubicles in the office…

If u want to buy a 3bhk, they will have 3 bathrooms cum toilets, why the hell we need 3 bathrooms/toilets for three people?!!

Why do they think everyone will want to empty their bowel at the same time, or bathe at the same time?

Do they have any idea, the monthly maintenance charge includes these bathrooms also?

Maid will ask extra for cleaning these bathrooms, more harpick, freshner etc etc etc…

At least with lesser number of bathrooms, communication increase within family, we will see each others face at least once in a day…we will learn to tolerate, learn to control, we will learn patience, time management, stress management, anger management…may be 100 other things!!

Earlier days there used to be one bathroom and one toilet both were separate…and efficiently used!

And it seems no pooja room!! While that is the one which is needed the most. How else u will ask God to give all the strength to pay back loan when u haven’t given him any accommodation in ur 3 bathroom sorry bedroom house?

Then came lung space, they claim community has 80% lung space…does it mean 20% lung space inside the house and rest outside? should we sleep on the lawn outside to get 80% lung space?

And buying house is pure science…u should know the angle at which SUN passes ur balcony and at what time, to get the optimum sunlight…

Vastu?

Let’s not even go there!  If you have bathroom in all directions where will vastu going to keep is head!

Madam! we have premium apartments also! Said one of the salesperson…which costs just couple of more lakhs!! How to tell him that we are couples struggling to have more lakhs already..

We were curious to know what it is..

Apartments with balconies overlooking the clubhouse having rooftop swimming pool..

What?!

Why the hell would i want to see some people on earth taking bath/swimming? and Paying so much money..

Bathing my son for years and years, and after me bathing years after years, 

i really don’t have any interest to see someone else bathing

And definitely i am not considering my husband’s view in this regard!! 😛

As u go higher and higher floor wise i mean,  the rates also goes high!…again why on earth?

Imagine staying on 20th floor, after paying 20lakhs extra for each raise!! u r already staying in a miniature world and everything outside will also look small and nothing will be clear.. And spending so much ur time in lift!!with 1% lung space and rest perfumes and body odors!!

While buying an apartment, you have to keep in mind, views from ur balcony costs extra, what facing costs extra, which floor extra, everything costs extra…

I am not talking about interiors and registration, that is anyway extra!

So when u see an add, apartment starts with some x lakhs, they are only talking about foundation charges!

I can go on and on about apartments….and what about houses in gated community? may be next time!

By the way we haven’t finalized it yet…any input is most welcome 🙂

PS: This was written few years back when we had started looking to own a house, now we have moved to our own beautiful apartment, ofcourse 3 bedroom with 3bathrooms… I have managed to make some space for bhagwan also keeping interest in mind😅

Hope our search for a beautiful home brought a beautiful smile on your face today🙂