Checklist before you select:

• Check as many areas as possible to match your minimum criteria. You'll get an idea about what you will get with your budget.
• Select which area of the city you prefer to buy an apartment. You may spend some time in that area and do analysis at home or at least find someone living in that area for a long time.
• Collect per squire feet rate of that area. Make sure you are getting value for money. Talk to different developers of the area. Check recent sales in the area. Do not depend on what developers or their agents say.
• Location -close to the facilities you require: Public Transport, Shop, Hospital, School-College-University, Park, play ground, Work.
• Environment - revisit the area at different time and week days before final selection. In Bangladesh and in Dhaka different areas have specific problem and those are chronic because of plan (or lack of plan) for the area.
  • Noise -noise at day/night because of traffic or industry. Consider how sensitive you are and how it will affect your lifestyle.
  • Air (smoke, dust or smell) -because of industry, lack of air flow and lack of open space.
  • Sun Light: The property or adjacent property. Open space is essential. Are you blocked by other buildings?
  • Utility: gas, electricity, water and drainage system, flood water level of the area.
  • Overcrowd: Too close to Bus Stand, Shopping, Kitchen Market, School, College, University, even Mosque.
  • Security: Street and building of your area.
• Service Charge: What are the service or maintenance charges? Should include municipal tax, common electricity charges, elevator charges and charges for hired help, like the garbage cleaner and security.

How they are grabbing land of poor and of ordinary people?
• How they are using money, power(administration and law) and muscle?
• How they are destroying the environment?
• How developers are making people to suffer?
• Systematically involving privileged & even ordinary people against nature and poor.
• They make money when
  • they encourage government for illegal money to allow.
  • they ask for government permission by escaping from taxes.
  • they do not ask for government permission.
  • they grab or buy land, materials.
  • they make labor work cheap and even refuse to pay.
  • they use cheap materials.
  • they make you sign for booking in exchange of cheap gift(dinner set, tv, ornaments/jewelry, refrigerator, air ticket, air cooler, etc.).
  • they offer you payment by installment(pay extra).
  • they force you to pay in advance of handover.
  • they offer you loan.
  • they make you sign for deed of agreement.
  • they delay handover.
  • the manage and impose service & utility charges.
  • they remain supreme authority of the project (satellite city, town) after even handover.