To sell or not to sell our pty
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LOLMum:
can i just check to see if you (not necessarily you but also friends) have any problems with neighbours wrt simple and silly issues like parking on the road, leaves from neighbours' trees in your area etc....
Hi LOLMum,
Could not resist replying to your question about problems encountered in landed properties.
From my limited 2-years stay in a private estate (after living in flats most of my life and then some in condos) this is what I observe happens in my estate:
1. There is a corner terrace opposite my place which was rented out to house reformed ex-prisoners and they ran a house-removal service so sometimes got truck parked outside. This was quite short-lived though and subsequently, house was rented out to students.
2. The rubbish disposal and recycling is serious business. You must make sure all food/detergent/shampoo cartons, bottles, glass, containers, garden waste, daily kitchen waste are all packed into respective plastic bags and dispose accordingly to the collection schedule. I have never flattened so many cartons, wash and kept so much \"rubbish\" in my home in my life!
3. Parking - usually people who know will not park directly outside your house. But comes weekend it is difficult whole place so crowded cars are everywhere. Compounding the headache is that in recent years, house prices shot up so much that space is so precious. People no longer seem willing to build front lodge to park their own cars, preferring to park their car out on public grounds!
4. Own territory - yes, quite sensitive in such areas that even if neighbours' house plants grow over to our garden or front porch, I don't like it. Likewise we make sure we trim our plants so that it won't over-hang to the other side. Rubbish bins and recycling bins are kept out in front. Waste collectors thought the untidy recycling bin of our neighbour belongs to us and scolded us. We told them it is not ours. When we highlight to our neighbour, the lady was not too happy. But still must be cordial or else it is difficult for long-term stay. It is my own opinion that private property owners somehow seemed to take such things very much more to heart. There is no sharing concept at all. Anything \"infringed\" you will get black faces and remembered for years.
5. Last but not the least and I am most surprised by how often this occurs! Our place is right in front of a junction and you will be surprised by how often cars will \"stand off\" each other refusing to give way to each other! They use their head-lights to \"stare down\" each other, horning away, refusing to give way on a SLOPE (whatever happens to the rules in the highway code?). You know how roads are often very narrow with only 2 lanes up and down but one side will be all parked with cars leaving only one lane for BOTH sides of traffic right? So very often 2 cars will come opposite each other, got stuck in the middle and that is when such \"stare down\" happens lor.
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For me, it is because my kids are still young that is why I prefer a place with facilities like a children's playground and swimming pool. God knows what life savers those facilities are for me these few years.
Unfortunately, in Singapore, even living in landed estates, it can be pretty claustrophobic as the roads are narrow with cars parked along them and bins outside every unit. You look out of your window you see your neighbour across the road. Well might be the same for strata. For my place now, I look out of my windows, I see greenery.
Chances are if we go for landed, be it strata or not, we will be looking at a semi-d or corner terrace. Don't quite like terraces as they tend to be rather narrow as well. -
DesertWind:
:yikes: . so you have 3 rubbish bins outside your house.
2. The rubbish disposal and recycling is serious business. You must make sure all food/detergent/shampoo cartons, bottles, glass, containers, garden waste, daily kitchen waste are all packed into respective plastic bags and dispose accordingly to the collection schedule. I have never flattened so many cartons, wash and kept so much \"rubbish\" in my home in my life!
but that's fine with me cos' i am used to doing that. never thought this is serious matter for landed houses.
i once had problems driving out of a friend's house cos' the 2 way road is very narrow. the car that was parked outside though not breaking the law was blocking the way. so no choice but to ask the neighbour to move the car to let me out. -
Funz:
definitely go for semi d or corner terrace unless the terrace is selling at dirt cheap price.
Chances are if we go for landed, be it strata or not, we will be looking at a semi-d or corner terrace. Don't quite like terraces as they tend to be rather narrow as well.
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Funz:
For me, it is because my kids are still young that is why I prefer a place with facilities like a children's playground and swimming pool.
When we were in a condo, we don't really appreciate the pool and facilities at resort whenever we go for hols. It's like... no big deal you get it downstairs. But now that we are in a landed, we've different feeling about going to a resort with nice pool. In fact, it's one of the items to look forward to. -
MMM:
Funz:
For me, it is because my kids are still young that is why I prefer a place with facilities like a children's playground and swimming pool.
When we were in a condo, we don't really appreciate the pool and facilities at resort whenever we go for hols. It's like... no big deal you get it downstairs. But now that we are in a landed, we've different feeling about going to a resort with nice pool. In fact, it's one of the items to look forward to.
Which is exactly how I feel. My mum will tell me, been a long time since we last booked and spend a weekend at a chalet or bungalow. I told her get our relatives to gather at my place better. All the facilities are there for you to use with a fully functioning kitchen as well. On top of that, we sleep in comfort for the night instead of in some strange bed. I have 4 rooms, pick one. Haha. -
LOLMum:
definitely go for semi d or corner terrace unless the terrace is selling at dirt cheap price.Funz:
Chances are if we go for landed, be it strata or not, we will be looking at a semi-d or corner terrace. Don't quite like terraces as they tend to be rather narrow as well.
Terrace selling dirt cheap? Buy, renovate and sell, not gonna move in. -
I heard usually after moving into a condo, you will use the facilities in the beginning but after a while, nobody really uses it. So for older condos, the facilities can be not very well-used. Any truth to that? I was thinking of buying a new condo but thinking that the facilities would be super crowded. Maybe if I got a condo that was about 3-4 years old, the excitement of using the facilities would have died down and so the swimming pool would not be so crowded?
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Hi ccgoh
Whether the swimming pool is crowded or not depends to a large extent on the number of units in the condo. If you buy a 1,000 unit condo, you can be sure that the swimming pool will be pretty crowded most of the time. On the other hand, the swimming pool in a 100 unit condo should not be too crowded. The downside is that the maintenance fee for the 100 unit condo will be proportionately higher as fewer units are paying for use of the facilities. -
ccgoh:
I heard usually after moving into a condo, you will use the facilities in the beginning but after a while, nobody really uses it. So for older condos, the facilities can be not very well-used. Any truth to that?
This is true to some extend. But newly moved in residents will always use the facilities... for a while. Most condo pools and gyms are used by the same few regulars. In ours where there is a sizeable expat population, everything is very well utilised. So if you walk out during the 5-6pm time slot, lots of people and their kids are outdoors and having fun.
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