Despite currently trying times, Malaysian property surprisingly experience several new housing launches. To make things more weirdo, the asking price seems to be ridiculously-ridiculous! I saw one ads that promote one of Sime Darby’s properties in Subang Jaya area (named Kayangan Putera, USJ Heights) “2-storey super-link house” (26’ x 80’ & B/U area 2,710 sq.ft) for RM800K!
Click here to see the ads yourself.
That make me think, “will that be my dream home?” While driving to Kuantan last weekend for our very-closed friend wedding, abiy & me spend quality time together (while Hafiy & Fahry tido) along the new east-coast highway discussing ‘how our dream home should look like’.
Instead of arguing how the atap should look like (minangkabau or flat modern roof) or how big ruang tamu should be or which Jacuzzi is perfect, we came out with these quick five rules in the quest of searching our ‘ultimate dream home’. If you know any properties that answer all these requirements, pls let us know!
Neighborhood
Our prophet Muhammad once said, “Look at your neighbor before buying a house”. And therefore, this is our main criteria to choose which one will be our dream home. The psychology behind it is probably certain type of people tend to flock together. So that, we can still get the ‘good smell’ even if we don’t used any ‘branded perfume’.
Security will be the main concern then since criminal macam makin banyak je recently. Good neighborhood will at least make us ‘feel safe’, boley tak?
Location
Selangor/ KL area will be our preferred location since we planned to ‘settled down’ here. In decades to come, next-gen adults will be living in the knowledge-based economy. And that opportunity might forced them traveling a lot sharing their knowledge, skills & expertise worldwide; especially if bulk of Malaysian economy still depend on commodities that time.
For that, KL/Selangor will be the best bet for them to at least ‘singgah’ our home while they travel on business trips (from KLIA, ERL, commuter, Putra etc.). We still want to see our kids although they grow ups!
Developer
There are so many ‘project tergendala’ appear in TV every now and then. The economic recession we are currently facing making the matter worse. This “super-failed” housing projects are coming from unknown developer; who only have land but not the expertise of managing projects. They tend to overpay their supplier and so complacent in the beginning of the projects.
We are not one of those brand-conscious people that have a lot of branded stuffs. But when it comes to purchasing a house, we prefer branded developer with super-great track record; hundreds of thousands ringgit at stake here!
Feature
Abiy has ambitious plan to make our dream home as ‘Kampung’ for our siblings. When thinking of it, that plan is not ambitious at all since both of us are anak sulongs. To add the flavor, our parents are also anak sulong (anak second if the first one perempuan)! The idea is to be the “gathering center” during hari raya or family events.
Second to that, we are looking for several rooms too. Hopefully enough to cover our nucleus-family as well as TokMa. Arwah TokPa wants Abiy to stay with TokMa forever instead of typical ‘anak bongsu’ in malay culture. It means that I have to stay with my in laws for rest of my life
Price
Price is definitely an issue, after all we are not one those billionaire or any kind of ‘anak orang kaya’. But we don’t make price tag our the first criteria for reason.
When we put the price tag first, it usually inhibits us from dreaming and thinking big, usually with the popular ‘property advise’ – beli sekarang nanti rumah makin mahal.
We like dreaming of what going to happen to us and let the nice feelings sink in. Once we are back on reality, we’ll start thinking the ‘how to get there’ part. That way, we let our emotion driving our motivation moving forward. Along the process, we enjoyed what we are doing, making it better and get what we want!
So how about you? How’s your dream home looks like?
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