Was woken up by Denise at 8:30am today. No choice. Had a meeting with an accountant at 9:00am. Did not have good vibes about this accountant as he has a difficulty understand Denise English. Anyway, he was at our hotel on time and waited patiently for us to finish breakfast….
After that, we adjourned to his office and got a listing of his charges.
Basically his charges were the cheapest so far and being a cheapskate … just got it. Recurring costs of 2500 Rupees monthly sounds reasonable for someone to handle all my tax returns, etc…. so … tada… settled for a deposit of 20k Rupee.
After finishing up with the accountant, we tried to figure what we needed to do next. I suggested going down to Land Mark Building to look around a potential office space. However, Denise reminded me that we have an appointment with the real estate agent, Rizwan at 3pm. So we ended up at Holiday Inn drinking Lassi.
Called Hamza, but as usual, its really difficult to get him. By the time he made it to Holiday Inn, Denise and I were at Ziafat having our buffet lunch.
Anyway, finally they came…
After a sumptuous lunch, we dragged them with us to Rizwan’s office to visit some more offices. We tried Al-Hafeez Towers. Rizwan showed us a 630 square feet room at level 4 going for 25000 Rupee monthly. It looked a bit too small for Denise home-office concept. He showed us a few more places at Al-Hafeez towers going for 45000 Rupee. Whoops… beyond our budget…
In the end, we went back to the good old Al-Hafeez Shopping Mall. However at level 8, Al-Hafeez Shopping Mall is too high. Hamza is not very pleased with it, esp. when the electricity goes down. So in the end, we are trying to settle for a lower one at 5th floor at 30000 Rupees with a floor area of 1150 square feet.
Just cross our fingers that this can go through…..
We were walking back.. when we saw a really cool service apartment.. .that we can get for approximately 100 SGD per night.
