Buying a house or apartment is a very serious matter. As most of us dump in our entire savings and lock down into a long term loan from the bank just to get the house. Therefore, for such a high commitment, you should be very careful and serious in house selections.
Here are some of the tips that may be useful to you... Remember, Feng Shui is just an aid and the important thing is to find that extra bits of info (Feng Shui related) that implies you have bought a good home... that will make you happy, and thus, staying in this happy home will be very auspicious. If there is anything that you read which is negative... you know, Don't let Feng Shui control your mind, you should be the one that is controlling the Feng Shui... there is always a fix. So, don't feel bad about it.
1. Feng Shui is an aid. Purpose is the No. 1 reason. A home provide you shelter. Where the home located is the next question you want to ask. For example, a lot of people wanted to stay in my estate here, because of Nan Hua Primary School. Another example would be, my friend just move closer to her parents place. So, obviously those reason should be your No. 1 reason why you want to select this place. As it is always makes you feel good. So follow that and be happy about it.
2. Once you decided why you want to stay in a particular area, then, you can start looking for houses or apartments around this area. Go take a look at each house and each home. This is when Feng Shui comes in. If you are the breadwinner of the house, the Feng Shui orientations will follow your Kua Number. For example, I am a East group person, Kua number 3, which has the most auspicious direction in the south. This is where you tell yourself, you will try to find a South Facing house/apartment.
3. So, for me, I always have a compass with me, on my watch or either with my iPhone 3GS.
So, try bring that when you go see houses. Usually the agent may have one compass with them. If you manage to find such house that matches your best direction, congratulations, you have found 1 conversation piece of topic that will follow you for life time. So, in my opinion, finding the right house can creates a lot of such conversations topics. And this will encourage your relationship with your friends and relatives. As you become more talkative and felt proud of yourself, the positive energies/Chi will definitely goes up. And you know, there is no magic in Feng Shui, when your positive spirits is high, everything will seems to be success to you... and that will create a snow ball effect... and add in more conversations topics for you....
4. Next important thing, is to look out from all the windows, balcony. Do you have a nice view? Do you like the view? If yes, you are 50% set. Wait, let's look carefully, is there any small little things that is bothering you? How about that building that has its edge pointing directly to you? It looks like a knife cutting you, will that bother you? will that bother your friends who come and visit you? If you are fine with that? That is ok. If you think in future, you are going to blame any failure to this "Pointing Arrows", then re-think again.
5. Usually, you can never find a perfect house. As all of us know, living in Singapore, each land is worth a lot of money, so, apartments has to be build close to each other, and you cannot avoid all these unpleasant scenes. So, what you do is to collect all these small little things which may be bad, and then list it out later. Ask yourself if you can accept these imperfection or not? For me, if my balcony can see the mountain and see big piece of low floor estates, I will love this place as it has good view. For those imperfections, we will find reasons or "cure" to fix them later.
6. Now comes the most important thing. If you are buying a new house from a newly development estate. Usually you do not need to think about the previous owner. The only thing to think is before they develop this place, what was it before? Please don't buy new home building on a previous cemetery. and so on... Of course, if you really like the estate and you wanted to stay in the high floors, but all high floors are sold out, and the agent says that you are lucky, there is one more left in level 2, please ask yourself again, do you want to compromise this? Always trust your deep feelings and thoughts... not impulse feelings.
7. If you are buying a house or apartment from a previous owners. You want and must ask about the owners history. How many years they stay here. Is there major problems? It is very auspicious to move into a house where the previous owner is very successful. If they are upgrading to another bigger house, that is always a good reason to buy. What if the couple is divorcing and they need to sell this house. Will you get it? For me, I will need to look at his home to find out what went wrong? Recently I was visiting this place, and actually the place is done is a very proper Feng Shui manner. And the agent told me that the owner is very successful business man. But then when I look at his place, WOW, it is very Feng Shui protected. But I felt that something was missing, the warm tone is missing, when you step into the house, it is simple, and cold. But all the Feng Shui element are considered and seems to make sure that the breadwinner of the house to earn big money. But it lacks those warm element where a usual family should have. No wonder the family is broken up. So, you know that this is a scenario where, the owner has believed in making himself successful by following the Feng Shui and family were neglected some how. So, you still have to answer to yourself if you can accept that? If yes, then buy. If no, look elsewhere. The common tips is usually, don't buy house that has people just die, or they have to put it on auction as the previous owner went into bankruptcy, etc.
8. Next thing to cover is to look at the numbers. Do you want to buy No. 24? No, right? So, find a number that you are comfortable with.
9. That's it. Those are the simple things to look for when buying a house. Of course, if you want to cover more Feng Shui staffs, you can always buy any of the Feng Shui books and read about it. But remember, don't get too deep into it, and always finding every flaws you can think of. Feng Shui is to find obvious flaws, big huge flaws. Not finding small little flaws.
10. Once you make a payment, don't look back, and don't regret. And this is a good time to get down to the tedious work of designing the new home. More Feng Shui stuff will start to roll in then...
11. Even if you don't buy the house for staying. You only want to invest and rent out the place. Don't you think a little bit thoughts about Feng Shui can attracts positive tenants?
12. Sometimes, do bargain with the agent and owner. Sometimes do look at your financial capability. If the house truly likes you or you think it belongs to you... that house will find its way to you. Sometimes you will have these feelings and thoughts. If such case happen, then, that house is really auspicious to you.
13. Of course, look into the calender to find out which date is the perfect day to start renovation, sign contract, sign loans, etc. Which ever thing make you feel good, do it. You usually don't buy house during ghost month, etc.
I think that is all for the Feng Shui house that I can think of. I really likes the idea of a house choose its rightful owner. This has happened me. I saw a place, I like the place, and I prepare the 1% option fee cheque on the same night. I told the Agent, this is the price I agreed to pay which is the price he offered. You know, most places in Singapore are co-broker by multiple agents. Then, the next morning, Agent come back to you and tell you there is another party by another Agent, and they are offering 5% more than you. What do you do? Do you top up? or Do you let go. So, I told my agent, I like the house a lot, and a deal is a deal, you cannot increase price after I put down the option cheque. On the same night, the Agent come back, and told me that story about the other bidder, they went to see bank and try loaning the money, and ask owner to give them more time to confirm the loan. But owner finally honor my cheque. And this is where I will tell my friends and relatives all about how this house choose the correct owner. Its a good story to tell, and it is something that makes me happy.
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