Hi Vinz,
Thanks as always.
In the end, bought the floorplan from HDB's website, $5 btw. Main deal breakers for my wife were, small kitchen (even though we rarely cook...) and west facing. But after looking at the floorplan, we think its still possible to squeeze everything we need into the kitchen, though spend a little more on renovating.
For the West facing issue, probably use those window-film but overall, the positive seems to outweigh the negatives for this unit.
Going to ask this agent to help us make an offer, fellow is abit blur or just very fresh, suspect he's a runner for a another main agent cos at our second viewing, he couldn't make it and other agent met us and said he is the boss.
Financial plan have been worked out by ourselves using hdb's website, like I've said, not much confidence in this agent but think no choice still got to pay him the 1% since he brought us there... The seller has his own agent which looks more zhai to me.
One more thing, I was asked by 'our' agent to provide a cheque for $1k with the seller's name if I want to make an offer. Normal? What if the seller don't want to accept the offer or want to raise the price, can I take the cheque back. Will also ask the agent but just want to know the market practice.
Thanks.