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Land Title & Construction Loan

cooldownguy86 — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:49:00 +0800

Hi everyone, the background to my situation:

1. I'm planning to demolish & rebuild my kampung house in Selangor (under MPAJ). To finance the construction of the new house, I'm planning to apply for construction loan.
2. However the land title is under my father's name. My father will unlikely be eligible for loan as he is reaching the allowable age limit. I understand that for loan purposes, I can apply for third party loan, where the land owner is my father but I'm the borrower of the loan.
3. My father has a will to distribute the land to me & my siblings.

Some questions:
1. For loan purposes, would it be neater if I (a) transfer the land title to my name; (b) add my name into the land title; or (c ) maintain status quo? What is the pro & cons of each arrangement?
2. What is the steps for performing 1(a) & 1(b)?
3. How long would the transfer / change of ownership process takes?

Hope bro [@edyek] can help on this as well.

Thanks much.

House Renovation

cooldownguy86 — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:42:51 +0800

Hi All,

I'm trying to redesign my house's layout/floorplan and I'm hoping to get some thoughts from the taikors here on best layout practices, both in terms of practicalities and Feng Sui.

After receiving the first-cut design, I had the following thoughts:

1. Avoid placing toilet above altar / main door
2. Placement of main door - are there any best directions in terms of FS?
3. Placement of altar - does it make sense to face the alter to the main door or are there other directions/placement that I can consider?
4. Shift the staircase to avoid separation of living & dining
5. Can the staircase be redesigned such that the dining area is bigger?
6. Switch the living and dining with the bedrooms such that the living and dining area is facing the slanting (i.e. larger) side of the remaining land
7. Increase the width of kitchen from 12' to 15'
8. Reduce the number of bedrooms to 5 + 1 guest/maid - there are 5 of us in the family
9. I understand that the side setback for bungalow is actually 10. While the side setback is >=10' at the carporch, it reduces to <10' at the kitchen (land is trapezium shaped). Would local authority (MPAJ) allow this?
10. Should I consider having a dry kitchen?

Would be grateful if you can help to take a look at the layouts and share some of your advice/thoughts.

Thanks!

Ground Floor
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First Floor
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Construction Quotation - Single Storey 26x70

cooldownguy86 — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 18:31:20 +0800

Hi,

I'm planning to build a single storey budget house 26x70 in Ampang, Klang Valley. Hope other taikors can share some views/opinions if the following budgetary quotation is fair:

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Using Astro dish to receive Thaicom5's Truevisions

cooldownguy86 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:50:00 +0800

Hi all

I'm wondering if it's possible to use our 60cm astro dish to receive Truevisions on Thaicom5 (78.5E KU band). I've read somewhere that says that Truevisions dish is 75cm.

Technical details of Truevisions signal: http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/truevisions.html

Do we need to change the LNB on our astro dish as well?

routing

cooldownguy86 — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:34:20 +0800

hi guys. if i were to actually to browse my dynamic ip, e.g 219.36.1.02, it will bring me to my aztech adsl modem web configuration page. how to i make it to point to one of the lan pc, e.g 10.0.0.3 instead? (i have an apache web server on 10.0.0.3)