In the last post, I was telling you about our experience with buying a plot for our home. The most important experience that I had during this home making venture is that ultimately, it our personal relations, that counts more than professional relations, as we saw that things became much easy, if we are dealing with people whom we already now n person, rather than a complete stranger professional.
Anyways, as I was taking about plot, we went to see a few houses (we were also considering buying a readymade one !) but things didn't worked out well. We didn't got what we were looking for, and we decided to buy a plot, and make a house exactly as per our needs. While we were looking for plot, we came in contact with a broker (though a classified ad), who also had a few plots of his own (at least thats what he told us !).
While he took us to plot location, we came to know that a close relative of his was a childhood friend of our family member. So this is what I was talking about, once you have a kind of relation, that is more than a prefesion, it helps in dealing.Not that he negotiated with price, but he atleast made a reasonable offer. We can make that out because we have had dealed with many brokers in this stint of our, and we could clearly see the change in attitude of this broker, once we had an established relation with his family.
I don't know how people would take it, by I definitely feel that these things do help a lot. Not only in buying the plot, but, in the overall process of house building, I observed that human relations do pay !
