QUOTE(CK15 @ May 21 2014, 08:29 PM)
Boss, where u re currently stay, and why u choose here?
My office near bukit jalil, for starters my wife insists to have a landed property...
Actually I'm constantly running in business and I'm used to driving to a place for 30-40minute, have a short discussion and then drive another 30-40minutes to other locations. So to me, a driving distance equivalent to 30minutes is fairly reasonable. And if I time myself from Bukit Jalil, I could almost arrive ANY place in klang valley within 40 minutes, except those further suburbs such as setia alam, bukit jelutong, sg buloh, it'd take 45mins to 1hour time. Of course, this is when WITHOUT traffic jams.
Basically, this how i started looking for my property, from the nearer places, sri petaling (too old), puchong(too expensive), cheras(jam jam jam till 1am?!), pandan perdana(too old), kajang(actually not so bad), semenyih(the main street jam like nightmare, cos almost everyone lives inside semenyih works outside!), etc etc etc. so many places i visited and they had something it common, it'd take 30~40 minutes drive, and most of them we don't like, cos some is new and EXPENSIVE, some is OLD and expensive.

So when i see dengkil, at first i also felt that it was too far, til i realised, from dengkil, mileage wise it isn't near for sure, but time wise, it won't take any longer than anywhere else where people are jamming everyday to live inside the area. So people told me, once it gets "wong", will jam edi la! haha that time my property not this price edi, "wong" i make money and jam, no "wong" i live peaceful and quiet life lo. no problem!
Dengkil to Bukit jalil is 25minutes drive, kuchai 30mins, KL centre, 35 minutes
Dengkil to Cyber 10minutes, putrajaya 15minutes, puchong 20minutes, subang 30minutes, setia alam, 1hour
Dengkil to Kajang 20min, Belakong 25min, Semenyih 30min
And most of the time I'm in highways that doesn't jam, relative to anywhere else... not totally no jam, but much lesser...
So for such distance, I can afford a semi-d which is priced around a terrace house in places where it take around the same time to travel around, it becomes a reasonable decision. Certainly, there's gonna be better places, cheaper properties. But i get my keys in 3 months now... can't complain
Then recently i noticed ERL is 15minutes drive, i lagi happy. so no need drive all the time, and erl links directly to kl central which is the main station for all railways. MRT included...
That's just for my case, but in an investor point of view, its a bit off the main grids, but do not forget that it is placed in the middle between the airports, putrajaya and cyberjaya, and kota warisan has new universities and hyper mart like NSK... so... less investors means more moving-ins, which is favourable for me!
This post has been edited by star727: May 22 2014, 12:58 AM