Archive for March, 2011
Update till 12 March 2011
March 13th, 2011 by Doris
Once again we experience God’s faithfulness. Since October last year, we have decided to buy an apartment as 1) we need to move to a bigger and nicer place once the baby is born 2) paying the mortgage interest is less than what we would be paying for the rent and 3) for investment. We saw this place in puidoux and we thought it is quite a nice place to settle down – not too isolated but quiet enough. After some calculation and discussion, we have decided to go ahead.
Since then, our lives have become very busy with many meetings with the architect, contractors, finance adviser, etc as we want to make sure that the apartment will be ready by April 2011. To be honest, it wasn’t an easy process at all! Anyway, everything were finally sorted last week and they have finally started building the interior of the apartment. Can we really get the key on the 31st March?
During this whole process, what we really wanted to share is that God is the one who listen to prayers and how supportive the brothers and sisters were. In order to be able to purchase a property in Switzerland, it is a must to have a B permit as a foreigner (which we have since Nov 2008). Every year, we have to renew this permit and usually it is a straight forward process. However, nearly about a year ago, we submitted for a renewal and don’t know who and how, it was messed up! To cut the long story short, we have been waiting for our new permits to arrive for nearly a year! And of course without this permits in hand, problems come with the apartment (and also other issues with doing things in Switzerland).
A couple of weeks ago, we have received an email from the notary saying that new condition will be added to the contract that if we haven’t received the B permit by xxx, the developer will not able to sell the apartment to us! Devastating! We have paid the deposit, and other charges – quite a lot to loose if this doesn’t go through! We were worried and have sent out an email to pastors, brothers and sisters and close friends asking for their prayers! To cut the long story short again, after 3 days, we have received another email from the notary that he has communicated with the commune and approved that it is just a technical problem from the making of the card and hence omitted the “special condition”. Problem solved! Thank God for answering our prayers!