We are moving to our new home

….in 2012! Today we signed the Sale & Purchase agreement (which was almost as thick as half a ream of paper) and sorted out our home loan application. The whole process of buying this new house was quite a breeze—over a course of 3 weeks *gasp*.

Week 1

Check out new and current launches in Kota Kemuning. We really like this place for 2 reasons; one, to be close to my parents and two, the township is very well planned. There’s a beautiful lake for recreation and the commercial centre serves our daily requirements. A private hospital is being built and soon we’ll have a hypermarket in our vicinity! We have been living here in our very first property we purchased together (a 750sqf walk-up apartment) and have been loving it since!

Week 2

So we picked up some sales brochures the week before and presented our favoured property to father-in-law. We’re presenting it to him because he is generously contributing RM 100,000 for our new home! So, it is only appropriate for him to know what property we intend to purchase. The brochures didn’t help FIL visualize what we were actually interested in, so we decided to arrange for him to pop by and see the show unit himself.

Week 3

Parents-in-law came by Kota Kemuning and checked out the model house in the showroom. Minutes later we drove to the site of the construction to see the real deal. FIL’s face showed signs of approval. But still we weren’t sure if we needed to inject more “unique points” about the house to “sell” it to him. We got back to the car and asked if we should go for lunch, and thought we’d probably have another couple of weeks to think about it. It was then FIL said, “Let’s go book it now before it’s all gone!”

There and then in less than 3 hours we placed our booking! Swoosh, it happened so fast it felt unreal. Just like the same feeling we felt when my pregnancy test kit turned out positive. For a moment we were dumbfounded. We got ourselves a house we loved, in record time!

So what did we decide on? We purchased a unit in the Lagoon Villas, the latest addition to the Kota Kemuning family. With only a 125 units, the villas are really  duplex townhouses—imagine a double storey house above another double storey house. Without your own garden *phew* and we park our cars below our unit in the basement. This low density 4-storey townhouse comes with a lift (for those lazy moments) and is facing a beautifully landscaped garden and lagoon. It is a gated and guarded community including CCTV and intercom facilities with the guardhouse, a huge playground for the kids, a multi purpose hall for your parties, sports & recreational facilities and even a non-golf membership to the Kota Permai Golf Club.

Our new home is almost triple the size of our current apartment, at 1900sqf. It has 4 bedrooms and 3 baths, an ok-sized kitchen and yard and 2 store rooms. The quality of the interior is quite premium, and we won’t have to do much renovations once we get the keys to our house. We are also very happy that we don’t have to bother about a garden (cos we can’t even keep a cactus alive, seriously), or worry about having to paint the exterior of our house every couple of years. We even have covered parking wahoo!

So for the above we are paying a grand sum of RM 367,800! Date of completion is estimated by September 2012. Here are some illustrations of the Lagoon Villas and its interior layout:

The good thing about the 3 year wait is that we won’t have to kelam kabut with Muffin’s arrival and we’ll have more time to save. We’re SO looking forward to moving in!