Steph's Blog: The Handover

Like little kids receiving a puppy for the first time, we dashed to the house after the handover at HDB was done and dusted. We met the sellers and paid them some cash to cover the property tax for the rest of the year and they handed over a bag of the keys to all the doors in the house, each one nicely labelled. The handover was done in front of the HDB officer, our lawyer, the sellers and their agent.
It was over within 10 minutes. We could not have asked for better sellers. The couple, who are about the same age as us, are very nice and we chatted and got along well with them on the few occasions that we met. We were grateful at how organised they were in labelling all the keys and giving it to us in a nice bag. All this was unexpected.

The bag of keys. We probably can't even find all of ours when we have to do the same in the near future.

What we saw when we opened the door to our new home shocked us. The place was spick and span! We had expected cobwebs, cockroaches, lots of dust and bits and pieces strewn here and there, but none of that was to be found. Amazing! Totally unexpected! We were bowled over! And grateful...
I emailed them later that night to thank them. So nice of them. We let them keep one key to the letterbox so that they could drop by anytime to pick up their mail. They will hold on to it for few months and finally drop the key in the letterbox to return it.
It was a nice feeling, seeing our new place at another stage of our lives. Its walls and halls have seen so much history and we were about to create our own. We are the third owners of the place and were excited to start the renovations to see it shape up to become our new abode. None of this could have happened without HIS grace.