On Wed, God took care of our flat rental.
Our real estate agent friend David brought a stream of prospective tenants to view our place between 5 pm and 7 pm. Having no experience in this sort of thing, I decided to sit back and let him do most of the talking. It worked out perfectly. We had an expat Indian family from M'sia (a mother and 2 little girls), a group of students from China who are here on a government scholarship, a trio of Indian guys working here, a Malay couple, a Filipino couple.
When David called to say he was showing our flat, I warned him that it was hardly presentable since we were in the process of packing. He said not to worry about it; he had already warned the agents who were bringing the prospective tenants.
Scottie, Beth and I had our respective moments of excitement watching all these strangers traipsing upstairs and downstairs. There was absolutely no time to tidy up and I was just thankful the cleaning aunty had just come by that afternoon. At least the floor was clean and the toilets were washed!
By the end of the evening, we had received a firm offer together with a Letter of Intent from the Chinese students. David had proposed $1.4k (above his initial projection of $1.2k-1.3k and definitely above HDB's estimated average of $1.1k) to the agent for the students. He countered with $1.3k, but after the students had left, the agent returned, sat down to a further private discussion with David and signed the Letter of Intent agreeing to $1.4k!
When I commented to David that he or the other agent must have really strong skills of persuasion, he simply replied, "It's God's blessing." A powerful reminder that God is more than capable of meeting our needs and that sometimes, we are so blinded to His provision that we do not give Him credit where it's due.
Am especially relieved and happy because the students have agreed to let us continue storing our barang in the maid's room and have no other requests of us save to purchase a bed for the 3rd room. This was so different from the first family who wanted us to put our furniture in storage because they plan to bring in their own furniture. Not only that, they have asked to commence the rental arrangement on/before 9 Sep, less than a week after we leave for melb! That's just fantastic because it means we will have a source of incoming funds earlier than expected.
On the issue of the bed, Aunty K called the following night to tell us to KIV buying the bed because she planned to help us find one FOC - possibly Granny's bed which is in her house. That would save us at least $100-$200! Good ol' Aunty K.
Thanks be to God for providing in such practical ways.
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