All of us will have few places to avoid when we buy our home. Who wants to wake up looking at a landfill/ dumpsite or smelly wastewater treatment plants? Below are few popular terms that everyone would want to avoid , for your reference. *Do not underestimate their smell/sight.
1) Landfill / dumpsites
*Not a scenery that you want to wake up to.
This is probably the first no-no for property buyers. No one wants to wake up and look at the dumpsite every morning or wake from the smell of it. No one wants a landfill near to their house. It is not pleasant looking and it will be harder to sell off the property later on, not to mention the price appreciation of the property is quite unlikely to be high. Do check the nearby locations and view the balcony before you buy that property and confirm that the smell will not be brought in by the winds.
2) Wastewater Treatment Plants
*Open treatment can be unpleasant if its a windy day.
Pretty much the same idea with landfills. The smell is not pleasant to anyone. Large scale Indah Water treatment plants could be a major turn off for most property buyers. Open air treatment plants permeate a constant “unpleasant” smell in the air. Even if the property is located a good distance away, wind blowing in the “right” direction would likely bring unpleasantly strong odour. Unless the price are really attractively low, try not to get your lifetime home near to a landfill dumpsites or water treatment plants.
3) Cemetery or Temples
*Burning of joss papers
Take a look at the apartments near to the Chinese graveyard at Bukit Gambir, Penang during Ching Ming festival. Beside the smell of burning joss sticks and "kimzhua" (burning joss papers), the ash could also fly into your house on a windy day as well. Many buyers wouldn’t even proceed with the property viewing if they know there's a temple or cemetery next door. Malaysians, especially the chinese, also does not prefer to live near to cemeteries due to religious issue. Naturally,it won’t sit well with your luck charts or your feng shui master.
4) Poor Maintenance from management
*Poor facilities maintenance and securities
Poor maintenance affects all properties, including landed properties. When buyers pay the maintenance fee every month, they expect their surrounding neighbourhood views and their safety to be taken care of. Dirty walls, pools, gyms and broken fences or security hut with no securities in it are some of the things that gives the neighborhood a bad impressions to the buyers.
For high rise condominiums, poorly kept common areas and facilities such as swimming pools, gyms etc or even dirty corridors with broken lamplights are signs that the maintenance fund might be in jeopardy. Because buying a condo unit might actually put one in debt, a condo with poor maintenance is a BIG NO in property buying as it makes the condo harder to be rented out, which mean it will be a negative cash flow to the owner. Bad bad thing.
5) Schools, Hospitals and others
*Unless you're a big fans of trumpets and tuba.
We all have been in a school before and we know how noisy are the hourly bell rings or the trumpet sounds of the school band practice. Be prepared for the noise and your carpark might be jeopardized by those parents that are waiting for their children to come out.
In time of bad lucks, chances are you could even spent more than 10minutes to get out from your house and out to the main roads due to the "ethical" parking of people especially near to schools or hospitals.
6) Eateries and Pasar Malam
*Obtained from uniselife.wordpress.com
This is actually quite subjective as one man's meat is another man's poison. This can actually be a good point for people who love to go for supper and the short distance is perfect for them. But for careful buyers, they will think that those "char koay teow"' can cause their home to have the sort of oily smell and can be bad to their health. *or pleasant smell causing them to be hungry often*
If you look at the aftermath of pasar malam, the roads are usually very dirty and it can potentially causes the infestation of rats and pests. They could be carrying diseases like typhoid fever and that definitely is a no-no for those over-loving parents that cares about their children.
If you look at the aftermath of pasar malam, the roads are usually very dirty and it can potentially causes the infestation of rats and pests. They could be carrying diseases like typhoid fever and that definitely is a no-no for those over-loving parents that cares about their children.
What are the other no-nos that you would avoid in your property purchase?
Comment below and let us learn together!
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Comment below and let us learn together!
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