By: Evelyn L. Aguinaldo / Author / Investor / Cyber Real Estate Property Seller
As I mentioned in my previous article, Rental Property Part 1, different rental properties are available to suite your lifestyle and needs. It is indeed a heart warming experience if you land into one good place without the hustle of arguing about anything pertaining to your rented property at the end.
Whenever you call for a condo, house, apartment, land and the likes, you must ask these general queries, when applicable:
Location: As in every business enterprise, finding a rental property also calls for a good location. It is the key factor to consider in order to suite your budgetary allowance and a gauge whether you are suited to the community or you can be able to fit whatever class the community you are about to live into.
Land mark: It will give a quick overview, as it will be helpful for reaching to that area in no time. If you are an internet buff, you can easily trace the area trough the use of Google Map or other internet mediums to zero-in your search at the comport of your present home or near-by internet café. At the end, even your visitorâs can easily trace you by providing them with the known land mark.
Accessibility: You must put into account the transport facilities availability and accessibility when finding a new accommodation. Renting accommodation near the cross-road of different public transportation routes (i.e. tricycle, jeepney, bus, train and an access road when using your own car) is a good choice to minimize downtime traversing to/from your destinations. Also, accessibility to institutional academe is a major consideration for your kidâs education, when required.
Overall, the area where the accommodation is situated should gives luxury to where academic, health, religious, metropolitan parks, financial & commercial establishments should be just minutes away by any form of transport utilities.
Municipality Services: In Mega-Manila and suburban cities and municipalities, flood water is always crippling geomorphic low-lying areas that are usually brought about by tropical storm during rainy season. You must re-consider living in this area, but if it is to become un-evitable, you have to take into account the capacity of the local municipality to pump-out excess water and become passable again in due time. The hygienic performance of the Municipalityâs garbage disposal system, pest control program, and drainage system maintenance is also a must in your priority list.
Building history: The construction and building history is worth asking especially when the accommodation is of high-rise structure in order for you to gauge the building adoptability to any weather conditions and unforeseen calamines the like of typhoon, earthquake, etc. How old the building is? Your agent, dealer and the owner should know the history of the building.
Never go for a dilapidated building as there will always be un-sanitary conditions and fire hazard associated to it. There may also be a chance that the local government will not even renew the building permit because of the building condition and worse, in the near future they will demolish this structure in-order to build new one in favor of the owner or association.
Amenities: For convenience of the unit owner and tenants whether living into a subdivision, mid-rise or a high-rise accommodation, the community should have a mind zone on the study hall, convenience shop, internet café, multi-purpose function room, aqua zone on the swimming pool area, changing room, body zone on the fitness center, chill zone on the landscape courtyard, Laundromat, etc.
Verify whether the unit owner and tenants can use the swimming pool and all other amenities âfreeâ of charge at any given time or ask the building administrator about the charges associated when using these amenities.
Whenever some of the amenities are not provided within the community, find-out itâs availability nearby.
Facilities and services: When renting accommodation into a mid-rise or high-rise building, ask about anything from concealed raceway for stand-alone or centralized air-conditioning system, provision for entertainment system, internet connections, cable TV and telephony.
As part of customerâs protection, fire, smoke detections, sufficient fire exits should be a standard question worth asking.
When it comes to comport and health issues within the confined space of the building, air wells, stand-by power source, cistern and water tank for continuous water supply, garbage chute or garbage collection services must be taken into considerations.
Security arrangement within the building is a must. It should have a security counter for 24-hours security check in the lobby as in the car parking entry/exit point. CCTV cameras should also be position strategically into the lobby, hallways, elevator, stair wells and car park entry/exit point for added security measures.
Another security measures I would like you to ask is about the controlled access to residential areas. There should be several dedicated high-speed elevators exclusively for the use of the resident. All other elevator services should not have any access to the residential areas, except otherwise when it is secured. Security to units via audio-intercom system connects to the security counter for 24-hour security check gives you peace of mind within the tower.
Building facilities, the like of Administration office, mail room, parking space whether it is form part of the unit or for rentals should be ample in numbers for customerâs use.
You will be paying a lot of money anyway, so better check the availability of these facilities whenever you decide to rent a unit from the building.
As I mentioned in my previous article, Rental Property Part 1, different rental properties are available to suite your lifestyle and needs. It is indeed a heart warming experience if you land into one good place without the hustle of arguing about anything pertaining to your rented property at the end.
Whenever you call for a condo, house, apartment, land and the likes, you must ask these general queries, when applicable:
Location: As in every business enterprise, finding a rental property also calls for a good location. It is the key factor to consider in order to suite your budgetary allowance and a gauge whether you are suited to the community or you can be able to fit whatever class the community you are about to live into.
Land mark: It will give a quick overview, as it will be helpful for reaching to that area in no time. If you are an internet buff, you can easily trace the area trough the use of Google Map or other internet mediums to zero-in your search at the comport of your present home or near-by internet café. At the end, even your visitorâs can easily trace you by providing them with the known land mark.
Accessibility: You must put into account the transport facilities availability and accessibility when finding a new accommodation. Renting accommodation near the cross-road of different public transportation routes (i.e. tricycle, jeepney, bus, train and an access road when using your own car) is a good choice to minimize downtime traversing to/from your destinations. Also, accessibility to institutional academe is a major consideration for your kidâs education, when required.
Overall, the area where the accommodation is situated should gives luxury to where academic, health, religious, metropolitan parks, financial & commercial establishments should be just minutes away by any form of transport utilities.
Municipality Services: In Mega-Manila and suburban cities and municipalities, flood water is always crippling geomorphic low-lying areas that are usually brought about by tropical storm during rainy season. You must re-consider living in this area, but if it is to become un-evitable, you have to take into account the capacity of the local municipality to pump-out excess water and become passable again in due time. The hygienic performance of the Municipalityâs garbage disposal system, pest control program, and drainage system maintenance is also a must in your priority list.
Building history: The construction and building history is worth asking especially when the accommodation is of high-rise structure in order for you to gauge the building adoptability to any weather conditions and unforeseen calamines the like of typhoon, earthquake, etc. How old the building is? Your agent, dealer and the owner should know the history of the building.
Never go for a dilapidated building as there will always be un-sanitary conditions and fire hazard associated to it. There may also be a chance that the local government will not even renew the building permit because of the building condition and worse, in the near future they will demolish this structure in-order to build new one in favor of the owner or association.
Amenities: For convenience of the unit owner and tenants whether living into a subdivision, mid-rise or a high-rise accommodation, the community should have a mind zone on the study hall, convenience shop, internet café, multi-purpose function room, aqua zone on the swimming pool area, changing room, body zone on the fitness center, chill zone on the landscape courtyard, Laundromat, etc.
Verify whether the unit owner and tenants can use the swimming pool and all other amenities âfreeâ of charge at any given time or ask the building administrator about the charges associated when using these amenities.
Whenever some of the amenities are not provided within the community, find-out itâs availability nearby.
Facilities and services: When renting accommodation into a mid-rise or high-rise building, ask about anything from concealed raceway for stand-alone or centralized air-conditioning system, provision for entertainment system, internet connections, cable TV and telephony.
As part of customerâs protection, fire, smoke detections, sufficient fire exits should be a standard question worth asking.
When it comes to comport and health issues within the confined space of the building, air wells, stand-by power source, cistern and water tank for continuous water supply, garbage chute or garbage collection services must be taken into considerations.
Security arrangement within the building is a must. It should have a security counter for 24-hours security check in the lobby as in the car parking entry/exit point. CCTV cameras should also be position strategically into the lobby, hallways, elevator, stair wells and car park entry/exit point for added security measures.
Another security measures I would like you to ask is about the controlled access to residential areas. There should be several dedicated high-speed elevators exclusively for the use of the resident. All other elevator services should not have any access to the residential areas, except otherwise when it is secured. Security to units via audio-intercom system connects to the security counter for 24-hour security check gives you peace of mind within the tower.
Building facilities, the like of Administration office, mail room, parking space whether it is form part of the unit or for rentals should be ample in numbers for customerâs use.
You will be paying a lot of money anyway, so better check the availability of these facilities whenever you decide to rent a unit from the building.
