Total Environment Windmills of Your Mind

Total Environment Windmills of Your Mind has its address at 5B Road, Shivaji Nagar, in Whitefield's EPIP Zone, pincode 560048. That zone ranks among the main clusters of offices and light industry in this part of the city. For a family where one or both adults work in the zone, the daily commute can be short, and the office day ends close to home.

Whitefield has changed a great deal. Its story starts as a village settlement, on land Chamaraja Wodeyar, then Maharaja of Mysore, handed to Anglo-Indian and European families. Growth came only after the 1990s software boom, which made it one of Bangalore's biggest tech hubs. Today the area has its own offices, schools and shopping, so most errands do not need a trip into the centre.

No distances to stations, schools or hospitals are published, so we do not quote any. Drive the route to your workplace at rush hour before you buy, and do the same for the school run. A campus of 405 homes also sends a lot of cars onto the approach road at peak times, so watch how the gates handle the morning rush.

Total Environment Windmills of Your Mind appears on the listing in two home types, both four-bedroom. The duplex spreads roughly 5,924 sq ft over two floors, which lets you keep the living rooms on one level and the bedrooms on the other. The Blue penthouse is larger at roughly 7,648 sq ft and takes the top of its block. The listing does not say whether these are saleable or carpet areas.

All listed homes are sold, so there is no developer price. A rate of Rs. 11,553 per sq ft appears on the listing, with no date attached. Use it as a starting point only, and compare it with recent resale deals on the campus. A completed home carries no GST, but you will pay stamp duty and registration on the full sale value. Ask the seller to put these in writing:

• Carpet and saleable area of the exact home
• Parking bays included and their location
• Pending maintenance, sinking fund and any association transfer fee
• What fittings, automation and wardrobes stay with the home
• Any loan on the home and the bank's closure letter

Total Environment Windmills of Your Mind is listed with BBMP/BDA as the approving body, and no RERA registration number is published for it. You can still search the Karnataka RERA website (rera.karnataka.gov.in) by the developer's name. For a completed campus bought on resale, though, the documents below matter far more than a RERA entry.

Ask the seller for:

• The seller's registered sale deed and the earlier deeds that make up the title chain
• An encumbrance certificate covering at least the last 15 years
• The occupancy certificate for the block your home is in
• The sanctioned plan, to compare against the home as built
• The khata extract and the latest property tax receipt
• A no-dues letter from the owners' association

Have a property lawyer read these before you pay any advance. Check that the approval shown on the plan matches the authority that actually passed it, since the listing names both BBMP and BDA. At registration, take a sale deed in your name that states your share of the land. Then move the khata, the electricity account and the association membership to your name.

Total Environment Windmills of Your Mind covers 24 acres, with 405 homes spread across seven blocks, the tallest of 19 floors. The clubhouse, the sports courts and the gardens serve every block. Since the project is finished, what you see on a visit is what you get, so walk the grounds rather than rely on renders or brochures.

A weekday could begin with laps in the pool or a session in the gym, and end with a game of squash or tennis after work. Weekends open up the basketball and badminton courts, the jogging track and the rooftop gardens. Children have play areas and an indoor games room, while the library gives older members of the family somewhere quiet to read.

For social life, residents can book the community hall or the party area, and the cafeteria and the attached brewery give the club an evening crowd. Retail spaces on the campus cover small daily needs. Ask the association which facilities run on a pay-per-use basis and what the monthly maintenance is for a home of your size. Also ask how the spa, sauna and brewery are managed, since outside operators may run them.