Tamper Marks

We observed some weird tamper marks on the windows in the living room. I certainly hope nobody's trying to be funny and break into the house. I don't think it was here when we did the house inspection. So everyone, be extra careful as well. Happy Chinese New Year!

One of the rivet was missing.

Ideas and More Ideas

Snapshots of some real houses with renovation done.



Changed the grill of the 3rd bedroom:





Look at how a ramp was done from the back gate:






Some houses extended the front door. My personal opinion, not much additional space gained.





This balcony caught my attention. The entrance was a glass door, which looked like a window.

Stairs from the master room to the balcony (another house).

I have tabulated the details I got from the site supervisor. Refer to it at your own risk ya :)


Not many people have moved in. Maybe around 6-7 houses..

There are a lot of Malay food around, not too bad coz we love Nasi Goreng Kampung & Tom Yam. Need to scout around for nice Chinese food, and the nearest place to get fresh vege & fish since the market is quite some distance away.

Renovation

This is the quotation from our renovator. Will not be translating it to English as I'm not very good in reading Chinese myself.
Any comments? Expensive? It's almost 18% of our house price. Sweat.

Tiles

Any of the readers have the code for Palmyra tiles? Living Room, Kitchen, Maid's room, Upstairs? If yes, pls share. Thanks.

15th Dec 2011:
Thanks to reader "WW":
1) Kitchen wall tiles - 300x300mm ceramic tiles Guocerra K926A
2) Porch - 300x300mm Homo. tiles Guocerra DRF01
3) Bedroom - 600x600mm Guocerra YMP6305

Frustrated with Hong Leong

When we bought Palmyra last time, I told hubby to get the EON Bank loan coz I was lazy to check out the other option - AmBank. It is one of the worst decision I've made regarding $$ so far.

We do not know how to read/ interpret the monthly statement sent (that with hubby being a finance buff and myself, oklah, A1 in Prinsip Akaun). The way the debit & credit are tabulated, it shows a forever increasing or stagnant loan amount! The online banking transaction summary is worst, and even the bank's personnel himself acknowledging that.

We paid 2 visits to Hong Leong Bayan Baru, there was no one knowleadgeble to advice us and the branch manager was not in for me to vent my frustration. We went again today, and what the customer service managed to help us was to call a loan officer and we spent 15 mins talking on the phone. Talking about numbers over the phone is not effective! At the end of the conversation, the loan officer said she will call us back to clarify (which luckily they did call!). Apparently the Bayan Baru branch is focused on business banking now, and all home loans are handled in Auto City branch!

Next regarding the Hong Leong MSiG Insurance which the bank bought insurance on behalf of us. The insurance cert had hubby's name wrong, and when we told the branch that this is their problem as the submitted the name wrongly (we did not fill in any form), the officer said he will follow up and call us back. 3 weeks has passed, no call. We enquired on this again today and we were told to write official letter to ask for ammendment.

I never had any problem with my current OCBC homeloan.

Frustrated frustrated frustrated. Is this just the beginning?