New House

Woohoo~ Got my first house ever! This is exciting. Cannot post pictures though, BlogSpot is not liking the pictures I have been trying to upload all these times, which is why I have not been blogging as promise (*good excuses).


Been actively looking for "gently" used or new house for a good six months before deciding on a house that we (hubby and I) like. We end up buying a brand new house given that we both are terribly bad at fixing things, and the price of buying a new one is equivalent to buying a "gently" used one. We are better off saving ourselves some troubles down the road, right?


Alas, I have to take my word back. We have to supervise closely at the construction because just our luck that the contractor to build our house is pretty much slacking the whole time. Some of our requests were not carried out as planned, and he is always not around the office, never picks up the call or returns the email. We were complaining, and the completion date has been delayed from mid-November to end of November. The builder has finally decided to change to another contractor, and things have improved drastically, and the completion date has been push back to mid-November, although by then we have already postponed our rental agreement to meet the completion date, and were given three weeks’ notice to the closing date, but our apartment has a policy to give a two months’ notice. Not only that, the very second day we got the key to the house, the A/C stopped working, and the weather is not cooperating either. It was forecast to have a freeze for about a week starting from the day our A/C broke. Thank goodness we have not move in yet.


My experience is, you put the efforts in before you move in for the new house, and you put efforts in after you move in for buying a used house (based on friends' experiences). But in the end, everything will be worth it, because you will have a house you call your own.


We are getting the refrigerator and washer and dryer tomorrow. Can't wait to settle in.


Mood: Glee~


Music:  Shatter Me Featuring Lzzy Hale - Lindsey Stirling