Detailed Guide: Finding and Moving to a New Home

Are you in your 20s or early 30s? And starting your master’s degree or settling in a new job or just got married, chances are, you have encountered this massive hunt. Yea hunt and we are talking about finding the right place to stay and live in a city of your choice. While real estate prices have boomed in major metros across India, and therefore, only option you are left with is to find a decent 1BHK or at most 2BHK apartment near your workplace or institute.

As easy as it may sound, the whole experience of settling in a new home is tedious to say the least. And when we talk about new home, what we mean is renting a home which is of right size, located close to your workplace and is in close proximity to commercial & institutional centers such as malls, hospitals, schools, etc.

So, what are the things one should pay attention to while looking to rent a home in a metro across India? How should I as a home seeker go about the whole experience? We list down the steps based on true experience.

• Finding the right place
• List down your ‘wants’ and ‘needs’
• Search on Internet
• Preparing to Move
• Sign the Lease Agreement only after consultation
• Hire a mover, it’s always worth it
• Identify your unloading zone in advance
• Packing Your Bags and Boxes
• Setting Up
• The Décor

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5 Home Projects That Are Best Left To Professionals

If you’re remodeling your house, there must be a number of things you want to change about it. And if you want your house to be a particular way, you might think that it’s always better to make these changes yourself. But remember, you are still an amateur and some things are better left to the professionals.

Professionals are called so for a reason.  They survey your house, understand your requirements, negotiate the price, and most importantly they get the work done according to your tastes and preferences. They make even the toughest work look effortless. Needless to say, for the following home improvement activities, hire a professional.

• Plumbing

Plumbers have a lot of experience up their sleeve and they usually carry out their work flawlessly. But mind, if you ever get so adventurous and try plumbing by yourself, there is a definite chance that you might end up flooding your house. Remember plumbing is no child’s play. One wrong move and it can bring down your house, literally!

• Electrical Work

Flipping a fuse switch and checking for faulty wiring is hardly the same thing. Electrical work is pretty serious business and there are more things that can go wrong than right, if you don’t know what you are doing. You obviously don’t want to electrocute yourself or your family members, right? That’s exactly what could happen. This work requires precision and most of all, a license.

• Tree Removal

This is no joke. You might think that you are well-equipped to uproot a few trees, but this clearly is not your stage to rock. Even hardened pros can go wrong with this process. Tree cutting and removal is a dangerous task and professionals have a lot of training that they have racked up for majority of their life. So it’s better to stay away from this as it also requires dangling from extreme heights with dangerous tools.

• Water Proofing Your House

Seen many water proofing home videos on YouTube or random DIY sites in your time? Think you got what it takes to go about waterproofing your house single hand? You really won’t be able to pull it off. This is another area where you should stay away from, as this process is both time consuming and confusing.

• Flooring

How hard can laying some tiles or spreading carpet across your living room be? Pretty easy right? Wrong! You will need precision equipment to cut through the tiles or the carpets to the exact length as required. Also these things take a lot of hard work so it wouldn't help if you fizzle out while doing it.

It only takes a fair amount of cash to get this work done. As enthusiastic as you are, hiring a professional will save you so much trouble, tension, and time.


Yogendra is a content strategist at commonfloor.com. He is knowledgeable and familiar with the Indian real estate market. He blogs on Indian real estate properties, news, price trends, home decor, home loans, etc.