Home improvements 2017

It has been 1.5 years since we shifted
Apart from constantly shifting our current furniture
every few months because im trying to find the 'correct' style for the home
we finally decided it is time
we can buy new furniture...
well i think it was me deciding more than husband..
haha

The first to change was the wardrobe
it started when we went to ikea
to look for new sofas
and noticed how our current wardrobe looks like for hobbits
because its so low (1.8m)
compared to all the proper wardrobes on display (2.0+m)
So we decided a taller wardrobe will increase storage place
and make use of our high celining (3m)
We order something with all the accersories from IKEA
and unexpectedly spenr 12hours (!!!)
dismantling the old wardrobe
and fixing the new one...
I never knew ikea can take so long
or we are just bad?

The mirror cupbord used to be the height of our old wardrobe.
At least now we dont feel like our wardrobe is for hobbits
but feel totally like we are hobbits compared to the new wardrobe.

Back to the original story,

why we went ikea..

Apart from i want eat at ikea and buiy random things

we wanted to check out the sofas.

The problem of our 2 seater sofa was it's too short

well, when we first arrive in this apartment,

we noticed that the living room is not in a regular shape,

so the previous owner managed to put a tiny sofa in a corner

that seems to add more space for the room.

We spent so much time searching for the perfect sofa 

that could fit into that tiny corner 

and we finally did with a 1.50m sofa..

Problem is after a while,

i start to feel the sofa is too short.

Its fine for 2 person seated

but i cant even lie fully solo.

After complaining for 1 year,

i think is time to reshuffle the room 

and get a longer sofa!

Husband hesitated on buying sofa online

since he felt the previous one was exp and uncomfy

and also he is unsure how a bigger sofa will be in ouir living room.

Long story short,

i saw online a longer sofa online

i liked the simple look and 'transformer' style

and persuaded him to buy it 

for him, the sofa is cheaper than our previous,

so it may be more uncomy

and he feels that we dont need the transformer style etcs

well, he is constantly the procastinator....

And guess who is the happy one with the new sofa?

The old sofa has been transfered to the bed room zen corner

and suddenly i feel we are quite ready to invite people to come

or any one from Singapore want to come sleepover???

Tidying and housekeeping

I was never a neat and tidy kid.

I know I was good at hiding things,

such as dump everything into the drawer

and pretend all is neat and tidy,

concept of out of sight, out of mind!

Apart from my mum's OCD influence,

I think my sister is also quite a neat freak.

As we shared a wardrobe for a big part of our lives,

i remembered that her part will be so neat

and mine is in a big mess

and how she would constantly tell me how to fold the tshirt,

that the logo are all in the side side and direction, haha.

Crazy enough, as i grew older, 

i became kind of a neat freak,

I think it started when i started working,

i love to keep my working desk free of clutter

and everything in order.

I think is due to the work stress,

having uncluttered workdesk always feels good?

At home, I still do have the 'dump everything into drawer" mind,

and once in a blue moon i will pack them well

for the process to be repeated, neat-messy-net-messy...

Since i have moved quite often in my last few years in SIngapore,

I think i picked up skills to organize my stuff in limited storage,

to dump things easily and know how to recognize my esstentials.

Our new home has more storage places than before,

at times i still have my "dump everything into xyz"

but overall, on the surface it looks well organised,

please dont open my drawers! Haha..

i still tried my best to fully use my packing and throwing abilities,

but it doesnt help when i can define husband as a hoarder, haha.

It can be so hard to convince him to donate an old tourist tshirt,

that he cant fit in now, was a gift from somebody,

and looks really ugly - i dont appreciate touristy tshirt style, opps!

When we shifted, we cleared quite a lot of husband's style,

or i try to contain them eg plan to make tshirt quilt,

but having extra storage space and a basement storeroom,

seems to give us both more excuses to hoard stuff!

1 of the way i  tried to maximise storage space,

is to turn roll up the tshirts into the drawer in our entrance.

Husband was amazed and proud

that i recalled him showing people the tshirt drawer,

yes, quite a strange thing to show to visitors...

Although i dont think is the best way to keep tshirts wrinkle-free,

it takes much less space than normal folding method.

Few days ago, husband and his colleagues went talking about the Konmari,

her famous ways of organising home and how she even wrote books on it!

After looking at some photos,

husband told them that our tshirts and rolled 

and is similar to konmari's method!

All the colleagues were impressed that i was following konmari,

but truth is what i did was not konmari's style,

She folds the tshirts instead of rolling them etcs.

and lot more about gratitude towards your stuffs... 

More about konmari:

http://www.marthastewart.com/1106009/konmari-trendy-new-organizing-method

Anyway, husband came home and asked me whether i was following konmari.

I was sure that i dont know who she is,

after googling, i realised i read about her in a blog that i followed!

But i didnt really check out what she was doing...

I started trying to google for more information of her methods,

but it seems what i can find online for free is the standard minimum stuff,

So i got inspired,

I tried to clear my very full wardrobe,

which became fuller because im starting to try get more working clothes,

and was proud to manage to get rid of some clothes

that i was always thinking "Someday I will wear it"...

Then i went crazy and decided to pack the overflowing socks drawer

that were full of socks rolled up in pairs

and always threatening to overflood when i open/close te drawer.

I tried my best to follow konmari's method for socks,

and to my suprise, we dont have so much socks as i imagined!

It was so full just because everything is messed up...

I did managed to threw away some socks 

that dont bring me joy

because they were uncomfortable, very old

or constantly giving me problems when i wore them.

Woohoo!

I was telling husband that i should really do more konmari's style at home,

I think i should buy the book!

Husband thinks that he should never told me about konmari

because i started this "I want declutter mission"

and he will definitely be involved in time to come.

He tried hard today, 

i was allowed to remove 3 tshirts from the drawer

to the box of tshirt for quilt,

well, a tiny good try ya?

I guess if i buy the book and start full force on implementing it at home,

husband will start a forum on how much he hate konmari, haha...

Side note:

At covert garden london,

we visited a nice old toy shop

and bought a vintage looking paper theatre at 20pounds?

We finally set ourselves to complete it today,

and i think it looks really great!

Okay, OCD me put a piece of cling wrap around the threatre,

in hope that less dust will accumulate...

Summer home improvement - 2

being unemployed and constantly watching french tv programmes 
about people searching for homes
lead to more improvements at home!
The interesting thing is i found a website - ikea hacks
where people changed ikea items
so i copied some ideas
but im definitely not as handy as most of them..

first, i bought a ikea photo frames holder at 5€
and installed it above the bathroom sink
instead of cluttering the sink
the holder now supports all the stuffs
and it looks good!

Next, I don't know is it a french or angmo thing,
husband loves the idea of a curiousity cabinet to display things in our Small living room!
Our living room is so small that i wasnt sure of the need add more stuffs to it
and such cabinets can really look messy and clutter of nonsense,
which doesnt please the OCD in me...
Most of such cabinets are really big wooden ones 
That are expensive and we dont have the space...

Although our living room is small,
we are lucky to have high ceilings,
and it is important to ultise high ceilings to lengthen the room
- some gurus in home improvements wrote that.
So why not?

we thought to shift the bookshelf from the bedroom
which currently acts as a divider for the bed and sewing corner.
after we unload everything and shifted the bookshelf to the living,
i felt it didnt match the living room.
To make things worse,
without the divider in our bedroom,
the bedroom seems smaller! 
And we needed for new ideas to buy a divider again...
so in the end, we decided to shift the bookshelf back and load evcerything again, haha

While i spend hours to search for the perfect cabinet to buy online,

looking through ikea hacks for ideas

and we even went to the flea market to search..

Its really too expensive or takes up too much space...

At least we managed to find an old iron and old medicine glass containers from the flea market,

so it wasn't a wasted trip

especially when i love to visit flea markets!

In the end, while browsing through ikea hacks,

i saw some storage ideas and decided to buy 2 metal shelves at 10€ each,

which i think if 1 day we dont use them in the living room,

we can store stuff in our terrace or in the cave..

I tried my best to arrange things well to prevent messiness

and for now, i think it looks nice.

We definitely still can buy some cool stuff to display 

or longer stuff to use the tall walls,

but for now, they look great and surprisingly doesnt make the room smaller.

I also cleared out the stuff from the kitch storage shelves

and suddenly i have so much storage place in the kitchen 

that i wondered along with husband why i felt there was a lack of storage place 

I guess there are still plenty to do

since is our apprtment and not a rented place,

but i think we need to be creative to spend less money on stuff...

Here i come, ikea hacks...

Therapeutic house chores

I think i inherited some OCD genes from my mum
Although im not as extreme as she is
I do have my steps and procedures to follow
with regards to house chores and cleaning
which i think becomes more obvious in our new apartment.

And i will become upset when husband didnt do it my way, opps
I remembered when i was suffering from my lungs infections
I had to force myself to look away when husband was hanging the laundry
because it was not my way, haha
Yes, lying and feeling all weak and still worry about the laundry....

I always find laundry hanging very therapeutic
it just takes my mind off
while im choosing the type of hangers to use,
the way to hang or seeing everything done

The other therapeutic chore for me is washing the dishes
we are probably the rare few in paris that doesnt have a dish washer machine
we dont have the space for it and i truly like washing dishes..
From a full sink of dirty dishes
to all cleaned and tucked away
What a sense of satisfaction!

My latest therapeutic chore is ironing!
I cant remember the last time i ironed something
And husband normally just wore shirts unironed for work
I guess my mum's method to hang dry the shirts helped them to look less crumbled
Recentlt husband decided to invest in new shirts
i had to iron the new shirts to remove the packing lines
and i got hooked, I ironed all his existing shirts and polo tees!

Im not sure whether ill find all these chores therapeutic when im working full time or have a kid
but for now im a dedicated or crazy housewife...

The icon of misfortune

I have been a fan of running man for the longest time
and i managed to influence the husband to like it too
Since each character has their own persona,
husband's favorite is Lee kwang soo
also known as the icon of betrayer and misfortune.

Ever since we moved into the new appartment,

I think husband became an icon of misfortune.

For examples:

He reminded me 248574745x to be careful of the key to the backdoor lock

As it is the only key we have for that lock and its quite fragile,

and he managed to break it.

He tried to open the bottle with a cutter

and end up making a tiny hole on the kitchen top.

He wanted to cover the bathroom tiles before he put some mastic on the floor

he mistaken double sided tape for masking tape

and end up having a hard time removing the tape from the tiles

He seems to have a bad magic finger to break something in new home.

He hates it when i say this bceuase he thinks it brings him bad luck

but well, i guess you become what you like in life, no?

haha

We finally shifted!

After the seem-forever wait to shift,
We finally collected our keys on friday!
After a quick inspection of the home,
We did found some wear and tear
That were hidden by the furniture.
But i guess we could live with it 
And it was too late to complain, haha.

After, we went to the notary to sign our life away
And became proud owners!
Although the home is quite clean,
We still did a clean up 
Because of my ocd genes from my mum.
And unload the 2 huge bags of stuff we brought along.

It was hard to tear ourselves away from the new home
And returned to our old home
For final packing and dismantling the bed frame.

The next day,
Sis in law came early to go collect the truck
Apart from the family,
Im thankful for the 3 friends that came.
I cant imagine how we can shift alone with the family.
The friends brought more carton boxes along,
Everyone seems to be surprised that all had been done
And everyone just need bring the stuff down.

Despite being on 3rd level,

With narrow staircase and no lift

We managed to shift everything!

Except for the washing machine,

Which was to be transfer to a friend's home

To exchange for another model.

In the end, the boys give up,

The owner will have a washing machine

But we still collected the new machine.

Unloading was much simpler and faster

Since we stay on the ground floor.

Everyone was praising the new home!

I guess the size was small

and photos didnt do the new home justice,

So everyone was surprised how nice it is.

I think is more of they spent 1hr+ at old home

That the new home is a nice comparison, haha.

After unloading, we had lunch

And surprised my mother in law with a cake.

I abandoned her at the supermarket

To secretly buy a cake and flowers, haha.

It was her 60th birthday! 

After everyone left,

Husband went return truck with sis in law.

I managed to unpack some stuff

And we are still trying to survive without sofa

(we only have 1 chair now) and fridge.

Yesterday, we forced ourselves 

To returned to old home to clean up

Today, im going back again for last cleaning.

After, it will be forever bye bye to that

And focus on our new home! 

Trying to be less lazy..

Its finally July!!
I was so counting down to the end of June
because its the school summer holidays till September
which means im not working since the kids are away!!
woohoo!!
as much as i love having a job and income
the end of june was so hard to bear with the hot sun 
when i need to be outdoor for the hottest time of the day to fetch the kids
and the kids become cranky with their need for holidays too..
At least, it marks the end of my contract!
I cant believe i survive a year of babysitting
even when im complaining like theres no tomorrow..

27 June 2015
At the end of june also means gaypride is here!
I used to love to be at Pinkdot in Singapore every year
although its more fun and grand here,
i still miss Pink dot.
I guess it really matters more to have friends than the event itself
As the husband was sick, we didnt spend much time at the gaypride this year
to me, is not really enjoying myself in the event
but to show support to the cause!
And im glad husband is a supporter too,
at least if my future child is LGBT, i guess husband wont want to kill him/her..
haha

If you noticed the LEESSANG cap

Yes, im so crazy that i bought the cap online

it is my cap because im still so crazy about running man! 

haha

With love from Singapore
I didnt know that my friend left a gift for me
before she left Paris
and its this beautiful zara clutch that i saw with her while shopping!
I have been looking for a clutch and its crazily expensive here
especially for those that i like
I missed those cheap bags shops in Singapore
Thank you so much my dear!

The other great news is my sister is coming to geneva for her meeting again!

Its really nice that my sister works in a swiss company

that there is always the probablity for her to come here

Well, this year will be her solo trip and i dont think she can extend her stay much

I think Im just so looking forward to meet up with her!!

And of course, i can start my sg supplies orders again...haha

However, she will probably be here at the week when we are shifting

Now im really hoping that we can shift before she arrive 

but... sigh is summer holidays...

Appartment

We finally signed the papers at the bank for the mortage loan!

According to the consultant, all should be fine for the final approval..

The supposed timeline was to:

10 August - Get the final approval from bank

11-24 August -  10 days cool-off period

27 August - last inspection of appartment

28 August - final sales contract and collect keys

29 August - shift house (End of rental lease)

Now, we are hoping that we can get the final approval earlier than 10 August

as we will be away to visit grandparents-in-laws for 7-15 august, my sister will be here 24-28/30 August,

owner will shift out around 10ish august, and 29 august is my mother-in-law birthday

that we really want to be able to shift earlier than 29 August!

Although we secretly suspect the notary gave the date of 28 August as he is going for summer holiday..

Anyway, our hopeful timeline:

3 August - Get final bank approval

4-17 August - 10 days cool-off period

20 August - last inspection of appartment

21 August  -  final sales contract and collect keys

22 August - shift house

29 August - End of rental lease

Well, keeping our fingers and toes crossed!

Heatwave

This year, we had a really hot spring that i predicted a hot summer

but i definitely didnt not expect a heat wave

Summer is generally endurable where day temperature average about 28degrees

and night temperature average about 19 degrees

Paris is not so well equiped with air conditioning as Singapore

28 degrees can feel like Singapore minus the humidity

Sadly, this week there is the heatwave

where during the day, it can go up to 36 degrees

and night is around 29 degrees!

Our little fan seems to be blowing hot air at me

and do nothing to cool down the appartment

Especially when the day is so long...

Im never a fan of cold food

Singapore has trained me well to be able to eat steamboat in hot weather

and i love to have hot food for meals

however, the heatwave won and i give in to make cool meals :(

Husband is happy since he likes cold food

and i tried to make cha soba without soba..haha

I pretended is a fusion...

I dont know is it the heatwave or im just lazy during holidays

I dont find the energy to pack for the shift

I dont feel that I rest well at night

I dont want to do anything except lying down with the windows shutter close

Oh, i have the stupid heat rash again

The heatwave is supposed to end in 2 days

I desparately need the weather to be cooler

or I may go out of control and impulsively buy a portable air conditioner

because is summer sales...

Summer sales

Although I told myself no buying because we are shifting

and to save money

Heatwave forced me to hide in coller shopping mall and lured me to shop

Well, i wanted to shop 

The summer / winter sales here are probably the best times to buy things

It seems that any shops will be at least 30% off

but i think i did apply some restraints in my shopping

Summer sales is ending on 4 August, so i really need to cover my eyes till the end

And last, 

I just want to show off this Adidas top that i bought

Yes, is totally not worth the price even after the discounts

but i couldnt control the adidas fan in me...

Finally, good news about our home!

We had another appointment with our bank
for another mortage stimulation
since husband's sister and friend had really low interest rate about 2%
We really hope our bank will change their initial quotation of 2.8%
Sadly, the appointment didnt went well
The bank require us to pay the notaire fees (means all our cash)
and can only offer us the same rate of 2.8%
as if is not bad enough, the bank will increase its interest 0.2% more the next day
since our appointment was on the last day of May
while we are really unhappy at the rate
at least it means we can still go ahead to buy the appartment

Yesterday, we went to the notaire office and sign our initial sales agreement
so, we have 7 days to cancel the purchase with no penalty
and to transfer 8% (12k) to the notaire as deposit
we wanted to shift by the last week of august
since owner is shifting around 10 august
and i really want to do this during the summer holidays
but the notaire is unsure whether we can get our mortage by then
as normally is 3months notice 
especially the bank needs about 2 months to process
and nobody works during the summer holidays
so, we are keeping our fingers cross

Today is our second meeting with another bank 
We really hoped that the bank will be able to give us a better rate
since the first stimulation was 2.2% (if we put in zero cash)
and 2.05% (if we pay 10%)
But after the visit with our bank,
we are just praying that this bank can give us a good rate of 2.5%

And surprisingly, this bank gave us a really good rate!
With zero cash, the rate is 1.95%!
if we pay the 10%; it will be 1.85%!
Definitely, we are keen to not pay cash and keep it for moving expenses
and is already much better than what we expected!
The bank inform us that there will be no problem to get the confirmation 
and we might be able to shift in 3rd week of august!

Its definitely a good news after all the worrying and uncertainty
Finally, we will have our own home soon!
Hmm, since we have cash on hand, i can plan for our sg trip for 2016
double-yay!

So, we are getting our home?

After the insane decision to offer the owner at the advertised price
we went through 2 days of hell
because the owner did not accept our offer?!
by right the owner has to accept our offer
since we were the first to offer it at the advertised price
but then the owner inform us that they promised to let the first visiters to lake an offer
so, we needed to wait for the first visiters to make their 2nd visit and offer
while we are panicking that we may lose their home and to threaten them with legal actions
thankfully, our offer was still accepted, phew...

We made a 2nd visit last saturday
and glad that we still love the appartment and will go ahead with the purchase
the problem now is that we need to give our current landlord 3months notice
and hope that we will be able to shift out in 3 months
With the summer holidays coming, most people are going on vocation
so, it is really hard to get appointments with the banks to settle our mortage
and trying to sign the initial sales contract asap to start the 3months notice
the good news is the owner is agreeable to shift out less than 3 months,
so we still may be able to shift out in 3months

the bad news is money
after contribution from my father in law and our savings, 
we have just enough cash for the notaire fees (about 8%)
however, i managed to convince husband to take the full mortage and nortaire fees from bank
because i dont want to be at 0 cash
but to do this, will result in higher interest rate for the mortage
which, i think is still a fair deal compared to be at 0

but we just received the email from the owner
requesting for 10% deposit by the time we sign the initial sales contract
the 10% will be kept in the notaire account
and can be used to paid for the notaire fees after completion of sales
The good part of doing this, means we need not include the nortaire fees in our mortage loan
and can get a better interest rates
but the down part is we dont have enough cash to give 10%
we maybe ask father in law for a loan which will help us to achieve the 10%
but i have no idea where to find money for shifting and furnitures etcs...
I think to be able to do everything perfectly, we are 5k short

Now i understand why buying a home is more to be in debt than to be happy..
Sigh

Will be our home AGAIN???

After the previous experience of impulsive buying,
husband told me that we should not be so rush again and made an offer only after 1 visit
Husband's family and friend also tell us to take our time to visit the appartment
and the area before offering to buy
At least, now we have become an expert in the process of buying appartment, hahah

Just a summary of how it works (direct owner sale)
- Visit the appartment
- Offer the owner with a email (with conditions, eg this offer will be cancelled if you dont send us the reports)
- The owner can receive many oral and email offers but the owner must definitely sell to the first person that offered the advertised price, and not wait for higher price or other offers, is like they must honor the stated price
- If the email offer is accepted, most owners will stop house visiting for others 
- Thereafter about a week, you sign the presign contract at the notaire office and the contract will be mailed to you
- the next day you are to transfer the deposit (5-10% of price) to the trust account of notaire
- After you received the contract, you have 7 days to cancel the deal without penalty
- You go to the bank to formalise your mortage
- Some time later (normally 3months), you sign the final sales  contract and collect keys

So, i was sure that im going to be rational
Although i think is fine too repeat what we have done previously
To email and offer to reserve the appartment since we can still pull out anytime
but husband say we must be rational and patient
(ahem you will read what happens next)

Actually, while searching for the past months,
I have always been interested in a particular area but price is a little steep
That is, Saint maur des fosses.
It has been rated as one of the best suburbs with average 7/10 points in all aspects eg security, commerce
So husband's friend and father also mentioned to us to explore the place
One day after we decided to reject the previous appartment,
we started to research this area and husband managed to get interested 
and we made appointment to visit 2 appartments in the area yesterday
Unlike the previous appartment, we research the town before visiting
And all seems too good to be true for our budget!

It is a nice town surrounded by the river that it seems to be on an island
the area is served by 4 train stations and the further station will only take hsuband 1hr to work
while the first 2 stations will only take husband 50min max to work
The town is full of rich people that the mayor rejected offers to build social building (HDB)
There are plenty of commerces and schools around
It is well known for its security in france!
While we got a little excited that it may be the perfect town, we managed to calm ourselves down
Husband reminded me that we must be rational

The train ride to the area was more crowded than our previous ride
but still managable and was nearer
Husband and i loved the town when we arrived at the station
It really looks like an expensive town compared to what we visited so far
or simply, like a normal place of paris
Walking around felt really safe
but as in Paris, people are not really friendly

The first appartment was located at 2mins walk from the second station
located in a quiet street with a bakery beside the building
but less than 2mins walk to the main streets of commerce
definitely, commerce makes the street much more lively
The appartment is on the ground floor of 35m2 butcomes with a terrace and a storage cave

I will not say that the design of the appartment blew me away
but i do appreciate the design of the rough industrial look
I always tell husband that i will love an appartment with interior bricks wall
and i really like there are a little of that in this appartment
The living room is quite small but we have a bigger bedroom
although husband is going to complain again that if we partition the bedroom into 2
the kid's room will have no windows
I dont know whats with french and windows
To me, the kid should be thankful to have a room with or without windows
but even husband sis has the same concern oh well.
We are not a great fan of ground level
For me, im worried for the safety and cold floors
For husband, he often comment that ground floor has no view and the windows with grills feels like prison
But husband love the terrace and immediately forget all about his ground floor hatred

We seems to have the strange luck to always visit a better appartment before a bad one
The second appartment was located 12 mins walk from the same station
but in an area without commerce and opposite the train tracks
The building is old but badly maintained
that husband foresee that a site will be required soon (means we need pay)
Although bigger than the first, the appartment felt more like an illegally build extension on the ground level
The room was really small but the kitchen and living room are bigger
But husband say the main problem is the roof contain a toxic 
that you cant do any fixing or frilling without professional seal-off construction
So, it was a straight no for us

After visiting both appartment, husband was so sure of the appartment that he wants to offer the advertised price
Ehhh who was the one who keeps remind me to be patient and rational?!
In the end, i suggested that we speak to the owner again
and sound her out at 163k (yes it is very expenive for a small appartment at ground floor at 168500k)
And to say that we will make a formal offer as soon as she email us the reports
Till the last minute before meeting the owner, husband was still trying to persuade me 
that we should sound out at 164/165k
errrrrrr i managed to force him to say 163k at the end
from what i observed, the owner doesnt seems keen at 163k so we went home

On the way home and at home,
 husband keep trying to convince me that it would be sad if we lose the appartment
just because we offered 1/2k less than others
and that we should really reserved the appartment at the advertised 165000k
Please remind me again who was the one that say we must be rational and not offer after 1 visit?

Husband then call his sister
and at the end of the call, the sister say we should offer 155k for ground level
haha, as expected husband was not agreeable, he already thinks im crazy to say 163k
The owner emailed us most of the papers and husband think its really good appartment
Well, it is definitely a popular appartment since is advertised 2 days ago
and we are not the first visiter interested in offering it
But i do have my concerns that we will need spend money on fixing some wear and tear
and being too hasty about the decision

After a long night and way past my bedtime,
I finally give in and agreed that we will offer at 168500k
But husband has to promise that he will not say: 
- Maybe the owner would accept a lower offer
- The house is too small, we should have bought a bigger one
- I think we overpaid for it (especially when his friends or family comment on the price)
Im writing it here so that i can show it to him what he promised
although i think he should tattoo this 3 sentences on him

Despite all, maybe im a little unrational too to offer after a first visit and a really high price,
all i can say to myself is that its still within our budget
I am paying for the security, nice town, reduced traveling time to work....
The owner's new home will be ready in 1-2months
so maybe, we can still meet my deadline to shift in August (Summer holidays)
I hope all will be well...