Friday, September 07, 2012

House hunting in Singapore


So where was I? Ummm....ah, the agents. I was told that I should have a one-to-one relationship with the agents- meaning I should just stick to one agent and not flirt around. But you know me, if there is rule to flout, I will flout it. Plus I was getting impatient with the agent I had chosen - he kept sending me lists of properties I was not even remotely interested in. So I started straying around and calling up agents after agents after agents. We just had about a week left in the serviced apartment and I was beginning to wonder if it had been a good idea to have moved here. Office time was spent mooning over listin gs - I spent hours gazing at pictures of condos and landed houses knowing I could never afford to live in them but hey, a girl can dream, can't she? I saw the ad for this apartment and thought since we have nothing better to do we might as well have a look at it. So I called up the agent, fixed an appointment and off we went. The agent was a plump nice looking lady who showed us around. We did like the place but thought we should have a look at other options as well before finally signing our fate. But boy, the lady was persuasive and aggressive...I thought if we ask her to reduce the price she just might back off so we quoted a price that we thought the owner would refuse. She got on the phone with the landlady and after an animated conversation, she told us that our offer was accepted!
.......(to self)-->should I continue?