r/GatedCommunitiesIndia

Let's say you're moving to a new city and know you'll be staying there for a long time.

In that case, does renting make sense?

Cause if I buy a home, the money I'd otherwise spend on rent goes towards the EMI instead. After 10-15 years, at least I'd own the house. If I keep renting, I'll still spend a huge amount over the years, but won't own anything in the end.

In this situation, which option would you choose and why?

I'm moving to Bellandur and am looking for a 3 BHK in a gated community.

Which areas should I focus? Towards Sarjapur direction, Varthur, or southwards (Choodasandra, rayasandra) or HAL Airport side. Which side is less expensive and peaceful- suited for families.

Any project or location suggestions would be really helpful.

Before buying my apartment, I had mainly accounted for the purchase price, EMI, appreciation and rental income.

Now that I've actually gone through the whole process, I feel I completely underestimated the real cost of buying a home.

On top of the purchase price, there was:

- Around 7% towards stamp duty and registration.(Stamp duty & reg fee was expected, but above that, other govt fee would add upto 7% in Karnataka)

- MODT (home loan mortgage registration) charges of about 0.6% of the sanctioned loan amount because my loan was from a nationalised bank.

- In my case, I also ended up paying unofficial payments at different stages - around ₹6k during the loan registration process, around ₹30k during property registration, another ₹2k at the Khata office, and around ₹15k for both Khata transfer and BESCOM-related work.

- Interior costs almost always end up higher than what you're initially quoted.

- Multiple trips to the site, fuel, time, paperwork, bank visits, registrar visits... it all adds up.

And the biggest cost of all? The amount of time and mental energy this whole process takes. For months, your weekends disappear into paperwork, follow-ups, site visits and chasing people.

After accounting for all this, I honestly don't see apartments as an investment anymore. For self-use, absolutely. A home is a different story.

But purely as an investment? As a salaried person who pays taxes and does everything by the book, I'd rather put my money into a business, mutual funds or stocks than go through this again.

I'm looking to buy an apartment in Gurgaon.

Can anyone suggest builders that are reasonably priced but still have good construction quality? Not looking for luxury projects, just good value for money.

Any builders you'd recommend or avoid?

Our apartment basement has a lot of rats. Some of them are very HUGE.

Sometimes they damage the wirings of cars parked in basement. Those are expensive damages.

I've to leave my car parked there for about 3 weeks while I'm away.

Are there any precautions I can take to make sure rats don't damage my car?

In our society, we pay an agency to collect all the waste - food waste, plastic, paper, glass, everything. The problem is they've increased their charges multiple times over the last year.

Now, except for food waste, things like plastic, paper, glass and metal can be sold for money if they're segregated properly. That could be a revenue source for the society as well, cause there are 300+ homes here.

How does your society handle this? Do you sell recyclable waste, or pay an agency to collect everything?

How's it working out for you.

Also, are there any agencies that regularly collect recyclable waste from societies and pay for it? Would love to know how your society is managing this.

My friend is on look out for an apartment and has shortlisted one in a Gated community, outskirts of Chennai. This is his first purchase and is looking for help on the following.

1. what documents to check if he decides to buy the flats
2. Apart from documents, what other essentials should be checked in the GC

If anyone who has recently bought a flat in GC please share your experience.

There is no water in any taps across all Towers in Purva Palm Beach , Hennur for the last 5 hours., 3600 residents suffering.

Only Tenants raise the concerns. Owners are so scared to even write , else a pack of wolves will jump on them and harass them.

Such a pathetic Association that it sends out notice water is going to come soon and if it doesn't raise a MyGate Ticket. Water is not in taps of anyone. Let people get confused and Association continues with its nuisance.

Before you buy or Rent here think 100 times. Pathetic condition in reality.

Thinking of buying a flat in Shriram Smrithi, Attibele.

I've heard bad opinion on the society management. Is it really that bad?

Also, how's the Attibele-Sarjapur Road location? Do you think it has good appreciation potential?

I mostly work from home, so daily commute isn't a big issue. I just need to go to Bellandur and Electronic City once in a while. Wanted a location away from noise and has appreciation potential, are there better locations i should be looking into.

My family is considering buying a villa in Hyderabad for end use.

Looking at upcoming, less dense localities on the outskirts of hyderabad, within about an hour's commute to the Financial District.

If anyone has suggestions for good localities, please share. We're currently exploring areas like Isnapur, Mokila, and the airport side, so villa project recommendations in these areas would also help.

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I'm 23M , a medical student preparing for future entrances and feel deeply disturbed by the harassment of my elderly parents and myself at hands of certain society uncles.

We recently moved here ( Nov 2026) to this society in faridabad . My dad is a retired professor and this society was built as welfare homes for employees of the university. However a lot of flats were sold to non employees and certain disputes and active court cases were ongoing regarding parking disputes and membership disputes. Even CCTVs are non functional .

My dad became the society president to attempt to solve situations and improve society conditions ( as this is our home now). A particular gang of uncles , god knows whats on their mind repeatedly sabotages dad's work and creates chaos. Things crossed a line yesterday.

At 6pm : False allegations were levelled against my dad by one of them that we scratched their car . And demanded my dad to come downstairs to the parking amd confront them and threatened to set our car on fir if he didnt come down ( i wish he took a recording of the call but he didnt) .

We obviously fearing for his safety DID NOT go downstairs. The uncles called the cops and came to our home instead. ( honestly we felt safer that atleast cops are here ).

We countered their baseless allegations and I'm not sure what police did...but they just took dads photo and left along with crowd.

At 8pm i had gone downstairs to check on our car. Knowing those hooligansthey cant be trusted to scratch ours. But i didnt go close as i saw the group of unlces standing there ( about 7-10 of them).

I avoided them , sat in society park and called my friend to vent the situation. 15 mins later , they spotted me and SURROUNDED ME .

One of them grabbed my hand firmly and in a threatening tone told me to come with them . " Dekho kya scratch hua h humari gaadi par".

I said first of all . DO NOT TOUCH ME. And i am not coming with you guys. When he didnt listen and didnt ket go of my arm. I cut the call , TURNED ON VIDEO on phone to film the situation.

The uncle had the audacity to PUNCH THE PHONE OUT OF MY HAND. I yelled at them how dare they touch me and in fit of adrenaline to pick up my phone from the ground , i set myself free ( the uncle fell down as result of it) . Kept filming rest of them till i got to a safe distance.

The uncles had the audacity to say "tum bache ho isliye chordiya". Wtf is that supposed to mean ? Bacha nhi hota toh ? . And bacha hoon, tab bhi you coward lowlifes had to corner me ?.

Today morning we had glaring scratches on our car on body and whole side.

My parents will be filing a complaint at the local police station today. It has been deeply distressing and scares me that what if it was my 65yr old dad downstairs instead of me ?

My parents are peace loving people and it pains us to have our mental peace disturbed over petty people. My dad will be resigning and we getting the f\*ck out of here.

Has any other builder in Bengaluru faced a situation where a residential tower was fully constructed(also got OC and everything) and just 1–2 months away from handover, but the builder suddenly announced that the entire tower of 15+ floors had to be demolished and rebuilt from the foundation because the original soil investigation was incorrect, resulting in an inadequate foundation that could have compromised the building's structural safety?

After waiting for 4 years for the handover beyond the financial impact, this has completely shattered our dream of owning a home. Years of planning, savings, and future plans have been thrown into uncertainty. This experience has also severely shaken our trust in buying under-construction properties.

I'm a 28 YO NRI based in the US, and I've recently inherited 3 properties in Coimbatore and Bangalore.

One vacant plot in Coimbatore, one independent house that's been locked up for a year in Bangalore, and another house with rental occupancy in the city outskirts.

I'm trying to figure out how to get them properly maintained and monitored without relying on relatives.

I am not planning to sell any of these at the moment and instead get help through professional property maintenance services.

Looking for advice on what to look for in a property maintenance service and what I should be asking them to check regularly (more like a checklist).

I recently rented a flat in veridian. Broker said there is 12k fee to use aminities in the society. Is there any such charges. If so does that charge is paid by owner or tenent? Anyone can help