One of my dreams is to give Mom her own house, or atleast to live in a place of our own.
This year, though, I was more serious in achieving this dream. I started to include this in my prayers. I am claiming I will receive it.
But to achieve this dream, I need to act now. And I was also pressured somehow.
I always receive text message advising of housing projects but if the price is not right, I ignore them.
Last Wednesday, I again received one of those messages about Arezzo Place and the premium stated in the text was only PhP7k and the area was in Pasig.
I googled it and learned that it was a project of Phinma Properties. I didnt know much about Phinma but I knew that they were one of those reliable developers.
I was motivated by this picture in their site:

for Php5,604/month, I would get really interested!!!
So I told Mom about it the same night and scheduled visiting it over the weekend.
So yesterday, Mom and I, accompanied by J, went to the area. We went inside their Sales office and was entertained by Walter. Before explaining to us the computation and discussing about the project, he showed us the turnover unit. For me it was larger than the usual studio type as it was a 30-sqm unit compared to the 20+ sqm by other developers. And then he showed us the model unit! And we were seriously interested. Their model unit was designed beautifully. And with that space we get to have a bedroom, a kitchen, living room and dining area/counter.
The unit that we wanted though was computed at more that PhP8k/month. And we felt it was reasonable.
There were only two setbacks: one was it was located in the area of Pasig easily flooded and even though Walter reiterated that the project was higher that the road, I was thinking that the roads wouldnt be passable. The second one was the City of Pasig was also constructing a church and cemetery/columbary across the project.

model units design from Phinma’s official site
After we decided to pass by another housing project near my warehouse, The Hampton Garden. Its location was along main roads, definitely in a flood-free area but their model units were interesting. There was no laundry area, only drying cage at the top of every building, I was turned off by the bathroom being elevated and the reply to me was because of the pipes, and other pipes were visible in the ceiling of the units.
But then you cant have it all.
Anyways, what I really wanted to say was I enjoyed looking at those two projects and talking about payment schemes. I felt that I was atleast one step nearer to my goal. Plus talking with them gave you more ideas on how to negotiate, what questions to ask, what data you need.
Will have to canvass more and I’m hoping I get’d to start within this year. God willing. : )