Last year was 2016, and leading up to 2016, we spent since 2012 living in apartments. Its now 2017 and long overdue for a new post but here it goes.
But before I give this story away, we had rented apartments for a total of 4 years. We lived in 2 apartments, and now we live with our parents. So while we were searching for a Home, here are the places where we lived.
The first one was called Amaya Saujana. our first nest. Had to be a little more extravagant as we just got married and wanted all that it had to offer. Beautiful place. Pleasant experience coming home no matter how late after work. I mean come on, 1808 sq. ft. Was aweome. A little more cash, for a lot more luxury
2012 - 2014. Amaya Saujana . Credits from the website below
http://www.amayasaujana.com/
.....and the other One Soho. A little less cash for a lot less luxury.
One Soho was a shit apartment with a crappy management, inferior fixtures and fittings, and had overall a cheap vibe. Well I guess thats why it was favored by college students and young families.
(We did this so I could save 6,000 a year, but in actual fact was really not worth the extras got at Amaya Saujana from a basketball court, tennis court, Olympic size swimming pool, 2 car parks, Japanese goods sold everywhere from the other apartment convenient stores, I mean it had the full works !
Where crack heads become junkies. Yes the apartment looked like this pretty much when we just moved into it. Looks like Cheras huh. Its also the same layout as our unit.
Basically, we moved into something that looks like it was built in Cheras. What a mistake. But I enjoyed the view though on the 14th Floor. Our Landlord Ms. Angie in the end turned out to be a real bitch who charged us for cleaning fees when we left but didnt even flush the toilet before we moved in.
Angie Ng, you bitch.
This unit above is probably a floor below our original unit.
The first night we slept there, I swear we slept on our couches because the place was butt ugly, needed a clean, and there was dust everywhere. The horrible fluorescent Cheras looking lights felt as though I was at a whore house.
I correct myself, whore houses in Amsterdam look better. Now I stand correct.
On our first night, the place was so fucked up, we were just postponing returning back to our unit by having more beers and drinks during dinner.
We even didnt want to be in the apartment because it felt shitty. (ever gone through this experience ?)
The very next day, we went to Ikea, bought 3 cheap stand lamps, bought all warm bulbs, and replaced all fluorescent bulbs to warm lights.
We took it from Cheras, back to some standards and made it look like this.
With no curtains, it was warm, but it gave us more light. Plus we were not at home in the day time anyway so it didnt matter.
We removed Angies shitty curtains that didnt give us the view of the highway, and installed warm lights, this made the 780 square foot place feel larger with light. This is what we did with the place
2014 - 2016 One Soho. Interesting times, just to save 6000 a year so it could be added to buying our home one day. Not the best of Images, but we changed this place from a whore house to a decent looking place. Many drinks, friends, parties were held here too.
Well this is what we had lived in before moving in October 2016 back with our parents as we just cant juggle the funds to live out anymore till our home is finished. So now you know what we had, and have to do to buy a Home.
Moving on, in the process of 4 years, we occasionally fished around at looking at our first home. Now being in Malaysia, this of course is a very personal purchase as this isn't a House. Its a Home. So looking for a Home will be a different scenario than the many Multi Millionaires during this 2017 crisis who had invested into purchasing Houses for Investment.
We looked at various places during these 4 years and man, while doing this, there were a few moments where being hasty should not be one of your traits of purchasing a home. Unless you are one of those House Investors. Sorry, I dont roll around owning 2, 3 , 25 houses. I am not rich. So when we looked for homes, we decided on a few factors ::
1. Grass or a compound / lawn
2. Landed Property. Fuck Apartments
3. A place where our kids one day could run around in the lawn
4. A place where we had enough land to grow and cultivate our own food on our lawn
5. A place where we could have 2 Dobermans to run around in
6. Triangulated within my wifes work place, my work place and our parents *** Very important. Have this balance in your life.
By looking around we looked at :
1. Setia Eco Park
2. Setia Alam
3. Laman Glenmarie
4. Section 11 PJ
5. SS3 Petaling Jaya
6. Denai Alam
All this took a period of 4 years fishing around before we decided to look at
Where we settled on was SS3 in Petaling Jaya.
But let me break it down to you dudes about these locations and what you could expect. All by the way, are run by shitty greedy unworthy agents who would sell their soul for a dime.
1. SETIA ECO PARK "Where all the cheapest crooks and liars live"
Setia Eco Park seems to carry itself with a self esteemed profile of luxury living, being gated and guarded and having a peaceful suburban community next to the NKVE. Thats how it paints itself to be.
Let me tell you, all home owners who live here are greedy as fuck and still believe in a utopia that selling someone short to a sucker is the way to go. That too without being able to have any class or standards.
We first saw a home for 1.45 million that was willing to be traded in hands. This owner still advertised even when another new owner had put in a deposit. The owner was basically looking to fish for the best offer without being truthful. If you are so called "priveleged" to enter this utopia called Setia Eco Park, nothing runs directly or honestly.
These are people who cant event put 2 words of English together but know how to con you. Take for instance, you will see homes for sale in Eco Park, and while you call the advertised number mentioned, turns out its the neighbor advertising for the house for sale. WTF ? Talk about high society people living here. Agents must be fuckin rich huh ? Where do property agents really live ? Setia Eco Park
Another agent advertised a piece of property for 1.8 and the owner wanted 2.1. Why the fuck do agents waste their own time and yours too ? And those new phases that advertise having solar powered facilities for your home, well good luck. You thought that was an investment to your property ? You cant sell it back to the government now. The whole place is one big scam of being tangled in lies.
Good luck to you House Buyers, not home owners. Plus, who the fuck wants to live there just because you have a mall ? You cant walk down to the street and pick up any food without having to drive out. And your security ? Pffft,
You want luxury living that still gets robbed even when its gated and guarded ? Try Sierramas. Still gets robbed. Good luck Eco Park with you your Mall and Giant being your companion forever. Gated and Guarded my arse.
2. SETIA ALAM "Where we are the Spin Offs of where the crooks and liars live"
Took one look at it, comes without the painted Utopia of being gated and guarded. Also being out of the way like Eco Park, with more humble crooks. Fuck it
3. LAMAN GLENMARIE "Love traffic Lights ?"
Good luck with the traffic lights that take 300 seconds before the lights turn green for 45 seconds or so. Newly developed, but really, do you really want to be stuck in a jam for all your life.
4. SECTION 11 PJ "Nice, but leasehold. I wont fight for your rights if one day the renewable 100 years more gets terminated"
The house above is the exact same home she fell head over for. It still hurts me today that when she found something she loves so much, that I had to walk away from
This was the hardest to let go for my wife, we found a single storey cottage looking bungalow going for 1.56 million.
However it was Leasehold.
Perfect in almost every sense for a young couple like us. Being central to PJ, Bangsar, Highways and almost everywhere you need to go.
But heres the thing folks.
While shitty agents will tempt you saying "Leasehold whut, but can renew wor for another 100 years". Do you know what the terms are with renewing a leasehold land in Petaling Jaya is ?
It means that YOU sign an agreement with the Selangor State to ensure that the title gets passed down ONLY to your inheritance. This was Introduced by the Opposition for these terms.
Now what if the government shifts hands again ? Then what ? Back to normal leasehold for your balance of 40 years left ? For the difference of RM150k more for something Freehold, its not worth the risk.
Dont be stupid. But if you want to buy a House for "Invesment Wor" why dont you then fucking use your own money for purchasing it instead. Agents need to shut up here in Malaysia and stop telling potential buyers what to do.
And your agent ? Well will she be there with a Pitchfork fighting for your rights if the government changes hands again and disregards the current renewable lease ? Go fuck yourself. Your agent would have whacked your cash anyway
5. SS3 "Always Freehold, but needs an injection of new blood"
I grew up here. Its centralized, its near to everything. I could walk to the pub, chinese shop, basketball court, ATM and playground within 200 meters. Try that Eco Park. Plus the wife works in Publika, I work in Klang, my parents are in SS3 and hers are in Sungai Buloh. So its well balanced centrally.
The other options were SS4, which has a dead vibe like nothing had moved since 1998. The air is stale. SS1 has too narrow roads, and has a ghostly vibe.
SS7, out of reach. Its like living in India, extremely poor or very rich.
6. DENAI ALAM "Because we love more tolls, highways and roads"
If youre drunk, good luck going home with Uber or Grab. Especially if youre drinking in Bangsar and heading home. Enjoy the long ride home, but just make sure to have a bag with you always. And wind down the mirror a little if you do pull over to sleep in your car. No one wants to wake up in their car with alcohol breath right ?
Flat tyre on the way home from KL? Good luck on the highway.
Cheap, affordable, cheesy nice, but at the same time, its too far in the middle of nowhere. It was a consideration but then again the houses too looked like a set meal from McDonalds.
The same houses from Setia Eco Park, Setia Alam, Laman Glenmarie and Denai Alam share the same fucking gene pool of Big Mac burgers with fries whether you order it from Alor Star or Tanjung Pelepasan.
Why the fuck do houses look like shit. They all have the same boxy look with accents of either brown, beige, grey and shit.
Now hang on a sec, do you realise that all these houses put together could have come from the same fucking stock of DNA ? Look ! Its the same gene pool !
They all look boring and the same. From Cheras to Puchong, Gombak to Setia Alam. Look ! You cant tell where these houses are from :
Built with no passion, soul-less, butt ugly.
And they are now growing bigger too, 3.5 and 4 storeys even. Just How Cheras likes it.
Theres no way of really telling them apart from where they are from.
Long and short, the search went down to SS3.
Why ?
Well it met our criteria well. We took our time and our hard earned money and were not about to buy a House. We were going to buy a Home.
Its important that you Triangulate yourself with work, family and other facilities.
Its important that you have a balance in your life for your spouse and you to where the both of you work and where your parents are.
In our circumstance, we had to find something centralised.
This is where Location, Location, Location as they say comes in
And SS3 Petaling Jaya is where we would find our Home
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