A site visit is where a home stops being a page and becomes a place. It is also where the sales office quotes a rate per sqft, hands you a brochure, and where, within two days, people you never spoke to start calling. This is what to look at, what to ask, and how to handle the calls.
Every number on this page applies to Trusite as well: nothing we say counts until it is written into your booking confirmation.
Open the project on Trusite and read the full price with every charge, the possession date the builder filed, and what residents of the sector report. Take the cost sheet with you; the sales office will quote the rate per sqft, and you want the total.
Every project keeps a visitor register and your car sits in an open car park. Give the sales office one phone number, and do not hand your details to every desk you pass.
Ask for the carpet area in writing, then pace the rooms. Ask which tower and floor the sample represents, where the sun is at four in the afternoon, and what the view faces once the next tower is up.
Payment plan, the date on the RERA certificate, what is included in the quoted rate and what is charged on top, parking, club membership, and who pays for what at possession. Write the answers down while they talk.
You will hear from agents you never contacted, about the exact flat you saw, offering a bigger discount than you were quoted. This happens to almost every buyer in the city. It is routine, and it is easier to handle when you expected it.
Sometimes it does not, and the buyer does well. When it does, it is almost always one of four ways, and all four are invisible at the moment you are asked to decide.
Nothing was written, so there is nothing to hold anyone to. Two people remember the call differently and only one of them is out of pocket.
A figure promised "at booking" becomes payable "at possession", which can be three years away, by which time the firm, the person and the file have all moved on.
It applied to a different tower, a different payment plan, or a unit that was never available. All true, none of it said on the phone.
It was an opening line, made before anyone had checked what could be done on that unit. Watch what happens to it when you ask for it on paper.
A document with your name, the unit, the amount in rupees and the date each part is paid. That applies to Trusite too: the gift value on the project page goes into your booking confirmation, or it does not count.
A bigger discount on a higher base price leaves you worse off. The figure that matters is what leaves your account including GST, stamp duty and registration. Work it out for any two offers side by side.
You are allowed to listen. Ask the caller to send the offer as a document with a date on it. Most of the calls end there.
In three weeks the flats blur together. Open the home in My homes, mark it visited, and write what stood out and what worried you before you drive off.
A project at eleven on a Sunday is a different place from the same project at six on a Tuesday. If you are serious, see the road, the parking and the noise on a weekday.
Save it to My homes first. You get the full price, the paperwork and the gift value on one page, and a place for your notes when you get there.
Find the projectOr WhatsApp the project and a person sends you the numbers.