Kitchen & Yard Reno

Long overdue post.

Initially, Hb and I intended to renovate the place and move in together. But then within 3 years, once the property was ready, the price increased by over 35% in value!!! The market rental rate too was pretty high at RM1,200 for a basic unit. At that rental rate, it is more than enough to cover my monthly installment and maintenance so the decision to rent it out was an easy one. This was ahem back in 2010.

The place comes with the following:
- Full high wall bathroom tiles (instead of 1/2 or 3/4)
- Wooden skirting around the entire house
- Nice, fancy switches
- Free air-cond switches in all 3 bedrooms
- Free aircond x 1 unit
- Free water heater x 2 units
- Free shower screens in both bathrooms
- Free grille for front door
 
But then we felt that the yard was too bare and hence to boost it's attractiveness to potential tenants (since thousands of units are available for rental at the same time), we decided to:
- Renovate the yard and turn it into a wet kitchen
- Install kitchen cabinets in both the wet & dry kitchen
- Add in the aluminium frames & windows at the bare open yard
- Add in the built in stove

Obviously, we also had to buy lights & fans for the entire place. Oh, the lady in photo below is my mummy... hehehe, while my father and I walked around taking photos:

Workmanship & Materials:
RM    500.00 Hack Yard Walls & Plaster Wall
RM    800.00 Workmanship; Yard
RM 2,500.00 Kitchen Cabinets; Dry & Wet
RM 1,285.00 Lights & Airconds Installation


Additional Materials:
RM    840.00 Tiles & Sink
RM    100.00 Additional 35pcs Tiles for Yard
RM    148.00 Cement, Sand and Wood
RM    540.00 Aluminium Window Frames
RM    285.00 Gas Stove
RM    466.00 Lights & Fans

Misc:
RM      70.00 Garbage Disposal

Total Spent: RM7,578.00

Next up; showing the place to potential tenants. :)