Current apartment

Since we'll be happily kissing our current rented apartment goodbye for good, I thought I'd show what it looks like.

Please click onto the photo below for a full sized collage of photos with comments on the apartment's interior:

Believe it or not, we've never used the indoor pool! The pool is very tiny, just like any other suburban apartment pools. If there are more than 3 persons in the pool at any one time, be prepared for a collision, hehe. Most of the time it is filled with teenage kids too ... that's enough to put me off. Suburban apartment blocks here are no higher than 15 storeys unlike those in KL that come with HUGE swimming pools and cafes or eateries. Of course here you can find high rise apartments too but usually within close proximity to the city centre itself.

However, I love this apartment a lot, it is very secure and private (except for the thin walls that couldn't keep out the mating sounds of the neighbours, ewwww). Most of the other tenants (mostly not owner occupied) are friendly, we say "hi" to each other in the elevator except for a few younger gwai pohs and one haggard looking Asian woman with orange coloured hair who are too snobbish to smile or exchange eye contact.

Anyway, the negative side of renting is that like most landlords, the owner of the apartment stinge on repairs that are necessary eventhough the matters have been highlighted the first week we moved in. Oh well, we've done our part, if they like to let the place rot and be held liable for any accident, so be it (for example, one switch has been hanging very loosely from the socket even before we moved in!). The funny thing is, they also send the real estate agent to conduct 3 inspections a year. The last inspection was done in October 2005 and now they want to do another next week ... in a space of 4 months! What the?!!! My guess is that they might take the inspection as an excuse to increase rent. Well too bad, they'd be receiving our notice to cease renting very soon. Good luck to them finding a responsible tenant with just two persons and no kids living in it, with no rent delay or default as well.

Well, alas, the AU$1,180 per month rental we had been paying for this 2 bedroom apartment in the last two years will go towards part of our mortgage from now on, yay!!