And so we finally own a property. Thank God for that, it’s just another thing that we have been blessed with.

We’ve been looking to buy from few years back. We started looking to buy around Parrammatta area, we drove to Para on the Saturdays for few months (this is when Jet was little – he’s such a good baby, 2 hours drive back and forth doesn’t seem to bother him much). We were very close on buying a unit on North Parra, I really like the unit, it feels really homey. However later we found out that there were problems with the building and the owners were trying to get the builder to fix the problems – sounds like trouble to us, so we decided not to go ahead with the purchase.

The second period of searching was concentrated around Hurstville area, we didn’t find anything that we like that’s within our price range.

And then came along Matthew, so we had to put the property hunting for awhile. Then few months back we started to look again, obviously now it will be harder to travel far for inspection. So we started to look somewhere closer.

Just so happen, on Saturday on August, went to Pacific Square and saw unit for inspection. Went to inspect that, and found out there were other units open for inspection too, so we went on inspecting them. We then paid a visit to the PS Realty office (it handles the rental on the property), met LK one of the sales agents. LK told us that she’ll have a unit available on next Wednesday. We looked at the price and potential rental, it looks quite attractive.

LK told us to come and inspect on Wednesday with deposit ready as she has a lot of people wanting to buy. She wanted us to come and have a look first. And so we did that on Thursday (turned out she couldn’t get the keys on Wednesday).

I wish I could say the exchange and the settlement processes were smooth – but they weren’t, there were problems that I just don’t feel like recounting.

And now we moved in to the property, we will be living here for six months or so – just so that we can claim the first home owner benefits. Living here so far (5 days) is a love hate relationship. Love the close proximity of everything, the beach, bus stop, shops, eating places, library. Hate the noise, the internal walls are not double brick, so sounds come through the walls quite easily, at the moment I couldn’t sleep because someone is putting dance music on his stereo. I prayed that he’d want to sleep soon. Argh! Looks like I am going to call in sick tomorrow – been not feeling well since the moving.