Smile please....😊4 by Rekha Om

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

We are so much used to getting checked by security, at the gate of office, apartments and malls..without that, we r not confident to go anywhere inside…what if someone has placed a bomb in ur pocket without ur knowledge?🤔 Or you are not who you are but someone else in disguise?

So, in independent house even if u have ur own gate,u feel insecure to enter the house without showing identity to someone at the gate 😛

Since we cannot afford a security guard, independent house option was ruled out…

Then comes villas….the gated community houses with security gaurds at the gate..

Thinking of a decent/actual villa?…then don’t think…

You should be a NRI, Business man or a politician to even think of buying one proper villa…

other options are..

a. Your ancestors with great vision has made a lot of property for you, which you can sell and buy a villa…

b. You, ur spouse, ur parents and ur in-laws all are working and pool in money to get you a villa…

c. The mail of winning crores of USD was not a hoax, it is true and u didn’t have heart attack… 😉

None of the above,

But still u r adamant on buying a villa, then let’s see what options we have..

A Row house/villa:

Earlier days there used to something called “Vatara”, (couldn’t find equivalent word in english)

It is contiguous row of houses of let’s say 10 or more houses, with 4 or more bathrooms outside the house which is common to all the houses, i mean houses are attached not bathrooms😬 and this will be within a compound. A gated community!! 😊

Now a days it is called row villas and only difference is 4 bathrooms will be inside each house…. 😛

Imagine the challenge u might face every time to enter ur own house, since it will be so close to each other, one wrong step will take u to a wrong house…

Just imagine u come all tired from work and make all the effort to park your vehicle in reverse[time saving for nextday]and ring the bell just to know u and ur car both are in wrong place… :O

So went back to get help from the property site…

Close to nature type villas:

‘May i help you’ pop-up from the site told me, that they have a very good property within our budget inside Bangalore!!..

for affordable price, close to nature, away from busy life etc etc etc

And when i saw the location map, i was bit confused whether i was looking at banglore map or Karnataka map…

Some 20 villas 100 km away from b’lore, 100% true to their description but only after karnataka be renamed as Bangalore. And you never know the pace with which Bangalore is expanding, one day Karnataka will be renamed as Bangalore…

Real ‘Within your budget’ type villas:

Then there was this another type of villa, which is IN b’lore, not a row house, within our budget…

We went to see with some expectation..

And at the site i asked, why are you showing us the apartment, where are the villas..

He said this is the villa madam!

I was looking at a 3 storey building, which was supposed to be a Villa!!!..

Basement parking, Ground floor kitchen, first floor living room and a bedroom, 2nd floor 2 more bed rooms,

if u still have energy left u can go to terrace also!!! You can even have terrace garden 😛

I asked, ‘where is the lift? ‘

‘We have Madam, but that will come under premium villas!!!!’

Since kitchen and living are in different floors, I was thinking in our family we watch TV while eating food, this bad habit can be corrected going to such a villa , also u will become more organized because u don’t want to run up and down for everything…

But then another thought came to mind, as we grow older, we may get confused whether we want to go up or we want to go down..😜

What if in our old-age we forget where is the kitchen and go to terrace garden instead? then only easy way down is to jump from there 😛

Not just these, there is a hidden surprise also….the maintenance in these villas will be more than the rent which u would be paying for the rented house!!

He showed us some more luxury villas with pools inside etc and he himself said, showing u, just to give u an idea madam as these will not come in your budget !!😬😊. I thought who will clean it, and we wouldn’t have gone for such luxury anyway, still i felt he shouldn’t have been so straight forward 😛

But i am still optimistic….And i still get the hope when i see the pop-up ‘May i help you’ 😉