In June, the purple dinosaur and green mutant decided to try their luck at balloting for a new house directly from HDB. Certainly not putting all our eggs in one basket eh? (see post on Resale House Hunt ;) ). It's like going to the lottery booths. Here we paid $10 and will wait for the lottery results a month after...
For the June Bimonthly ballot for 4 room and larger units, 922 units were up for grabs. After about a month, the statistics came in at almost 5000 ballots for these units. When we finally got our queue number, we had a queue number in the low 1000's. How the process works is that from the 922 pool of units, couples will take turns to choose from the pool in the sequence of their queue number. Therefore the low queue numbers would get a wider selection (ie. better locations and floor levels) while the higher queue numbers would have little to choose from. Hmm..this means that if everyone chose a unit in the queue numbers before us, this would leave us no choice right? Well, we can only cross our fingers and wait. Hopefully some are just trying their luck for choice units and are willing to try to ballot again the next rounds.
With the queue number comes an appointment date to HDB office. On this date, the couple then chooses the unit from the available pool.
Guess how many times we actually went down to see the available units? ;)
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