When you decide to buy a house
for your self in another city which is not your hometown you know what is up
for you – long conversations with builders, weekends and weekends of house
hunting, increasing your budget from where ever you can manage to compromising
on what eventually buy. Since I have done that not so long ago things are
afresh in my mind.
Me and my wife had set to out
check prospective homes for we had decided to move in to our own home – an
apartment which will be just ours, no tension of rent, landlord, separate rules
for tenants etc. We wanted to be the landlords for a change!
But we were met with several
builders, brokers who promised something else and showed something else. We
were looking for a spacious apartment and not a match box like one since this
would be our home for a good period of time – but we were surprised to see the
size of apartments which were advertised as 1900-2000 sq ft and looked like not
more than 1400-1500 sq ft.
I can’t even count how many
apartments we had checked. In every corner of the city may be. The ones we
liked little bit were not favorable for distance or amenities, something or
the other always came up. I was losing hope. I had given up for some time.
Thought of not wasting any more weekend over this. I was actually getting frustrated. But my
wife held her cool. She declared, till we are satisfied 90% with the house we’ll
not buy anything random and waste money. Now when you are buying a property in Bangalore
you know how much you have to shell out.
She kept looking at property ads,
visited property fairs, went through online ads without letting me know all the
hassles. We finally arrived one day to check an apartment in a huge complex. I
was initially wary of staying with 1000 more families. But frankly when we
stepped inside the apartment it was bliss. It was a ready apartment and just
like what we had wanted – peaceful, serene, private, large balconies, large
rooms, airy and spacious. And more technically – clear titles, reputed builder,
hassle free bank loan from nationalized bank. Without wasting any more time we
simply picked it up.
We built our own home sweet home
with baby steps. Getting the interiors done, getting our own furniture and
electrical appliances. Our apartment today has turned into a home today – home sweet
home. A home that I will cherish for life. A home that both of us have built up
with lot of love and affection.
It is true, you need to believe
in your heart you will get what you want – it feels my home sweet home has
always been in our destiny.
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