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About me – resume – portfolio – fields of activity

I am Teoalida and I love doing research, collecting information, writing articles and making databases about real estate, cars, and other fields, as well as designing own housing models. I made this website since 2009 to share knowledge and educational material, sell my works and promote my services, and make new (business) friends.

All articles, drawings, 3D models, Word documents and Excel databases, are my ORIGINAL work. Except the photographs from Housing around the World section, which are linked to their original source, and the HDB brochures.

I am NOT a freelancer that you can hire. In the past I made projects on request basis, but the number of people demanding my services grow too much so I need to use my personal time wisely ONLY in projects requested by / useful for large number of people, read more.

I also have few partners, architects and programmers who can do projects on request basis when I am too busy. If you want to be partner you are welcome.

If you have any enquiry about AutoCAD, architecture, real estate, databases, research, data mining and analysis, or any other stuff covered by articles of this website, comments about my works, errors to report, suggestions, critics, etc, feel free to contact me via LiveChat (in lower-right corner of screen), Skype: teoalida, or email: [email protected].

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Housing around the World, research and educational articles

I love exploring the world to study architecture, housing and living conditions, and write articles. While articles themselves do not produce money, they help home seekers, students, researchers and some businesses, increase website audience and occasionally people offer to pay me to do other works.

Starting from 2009 I wrote 14 pages for various countries/regions: North America, Latin America, Europe, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, India, Africa.

AutoCAD design

My dad is using AutoCAD since 1995, I learned AutoCAD myself while watching him working and made my first drawing in 1998, over years I made numerous drawings from personal interest (hobby) as well as working for my parents or for customers who contacted me via this website.

Low number of customers paying for AutoCAD drawings and low payments made me (after 2017) to outsource most of AutoCAD projects to other people less busy than me, price for Paper to CAD conversion services: $10/hour.

Graphic Design
World Cities Database

Word books & Excel databases – data entry and web scraping services

My dad encouraged me to write documents in Word like a book since 1997, but I learned also Excel myself and since 2003 I am using it more than Word. Today, sales of Excel databases is my primary source of income. Word documents and books turned hard to sell, but I continue to write, just that I write blog articles instead of Word documents.

For many years, manual data entry from books (as seen in this video), or manual copy-pasting from websites, was my only way of creating databases. I do web scraping since 2015, coding a bot that visit a list of given pages, copy specific data from each page and put it in an Excel / CSV file automatically, at rate of few pages per second.

By today I made over 100 databases related to geography, real estate, automobiles, electronic products, game items, sports, etc. Due to high number of customers demanding such services, I create new databases only when multiple people request same data.

Housing in Singapore

I studied Singapore housing in more depth than any other country. The first page HDB floor plans 1930-2010 I published in 2009 and expanded over years to the point I had to split up into multiple pages.

Currently the Singapore section have over 20 pages, including Interactive map of HDB blocks (alternative to official HDB Map Services) and similar map for Condos. Click block pins and view year built, number of floors, number of units breakdown by flat type, upgrading programmes, typical floor plans, chances to get SERS, etc. You can also apply filters to display on map only HDB blocks that meet certain criteria.

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Apartment Design

Housing design – the Virtual City

The interest for architecture dates back from childhood but only in 2008 (at 19 years old) I started serious work, making “Teoalida’s Virtual City” with dozens building designs, constantly improved, floor plans and 3D models designed in AutoCAD for personal pleasure / artistic purpose, but fully livable homes that can be built (virtual city = because I am not a developer, I don’t have capital to build them).

Since 2010 I designed landed houses too, detached, semi-detached, terraced and cluster houses (landed condominiums), some been inspired from various housing around the world, some being my original concepts. And all this without taking any architecture courses!

My works been a source of inspiration for many students. Out of the few hundreds sketches and experimental designs made, I published over 50 apartment designs and over 50 house designs for free viewing, with option to purchase AutoCAD DWG files and make changes yourself.

Housing design – architectural services

Adding chat box on website in 2012 made people to contact me easier, some advising me to pursue a career in architecture and make big $$. I learned to make “construction drawings” according building codes of various countries, fully-dimensioned floor plans, elevations, sections, as required for building permit, but…

…been overwhelmed by non-serious people from third-world countries who wanted FREE house plans, serious PAYING customers were rare and some of them asked numerous design changes, wasting entire month working on a single family house, making me unhappy regardless of sum paid.

Over years I met few licensed architects, all having similar difficulties in convincing customers to pay, even after being in business for 20+ years they struggle to earn $2000/month, a sum that I personally achieved in 4 years of database business. Consequently in 2015 I stopped offering architectural design services, to focus on databases.

Customers who can pay an architect, I can connect you with one of partners, licensed architects who do not have other jobs and can work whole month designing a custom project for you.

House Design
Palace Design

Palace design in AutoCAD

Probably the most beautiful piece of art that I ever made in AutoCAD, this 3D model is a virtual reconstruction of a REAL building built in early 20th century and abandoned without being ever finished.

Originally designed voluntarily in 2006, I improved it in 2009 and 2014 to show you my abilities of 3D modeling in AutoCAD and geometry design.

There are several architecture software (ArchiCAD, Blender, Chief Architect, Revit) that can do better job than AutoCAD, but the little money earned from this type of services do not justify buying more licenses.

Furniture & interior design in AutoCAD

From the same passion for AutoCAD and 3D modeling, beside houses and apartments I made some furniture items too.

My mom been working in a furniture factory in 2001-2003, moment in which I designed few items for her. Other furniture items I designed to furnish my own apartment. Lacking other customers prevented me gaining experience in interior design like in architectural design.

Interior Design
HDB Database

Real estate database – data mining and analysis

One of my biggest research and data mining projects is the Singapore HDB Database, a table of 14000+ buildings with block number, street address, postal code, year build, number of units breakdown by flat type, upgrading programmes, etc. An original compilation of data centralized from multiple sources plus own research.

Started in 2009 from personal interest and put ON HOLD because the potential of turning into a business was under question, after discovering potential of Car Database, I resumed working at HDB Database in 2014 and finalized in 2015, after hundreds hours of work, it has been purchased by several real estate companies, home insurance, telecommunication, door to door services, etc.

In addition of HDB original research, I am offering Condo Database made via web scraping, and HDB Resale Flat Prices Database that include over 60 charts made in Excel.

Another project is the Hong Kong Housing Database, table with 1000+ public and private housing estates, made in 2011 for an insurance company (my first large project done at customer request and not as personal interest/hobby).

Car database – research and data analysis

Due to my passion for automobiles and obsession for doing research, tables and statistics, in 2003 I started making voluntarily a car encyclopedia, several lists in .DOC format and tables in .XLS format which allows you to sort and filter car models. This include a table with 20,000+ car models sold in Europe that took me over 1000 hours of work!

The hobby turned into a business since 2012 when I found professionals looking for such data, I improved European databases and created new databases for America and Asia using web scraping and as 2015, they have been purchased by hundreds companies including car parts, insurance, shipping, as well as web designers and mobile app developers.

Car Database
Car Design

Car design in AutoCAD

One of my older passions was for automobiles, since 2000 I designed side views of few real cars in Paint, also my own car models, in Paint and later in 3D in AutoCAD.

“Teoalida’s Cars” are not very modern or sport cars, but they are designed with as many details is possible, and rendered with all photo-realistic effects available in AutoCAD, to showcase my skills of 3D modeling.

Last car I designed was in 2007 (photo), it took me about 100 hours of work, too much time for its value. Since 2008 I moved to architecture where I can design a house in few hours.

Map design in AutoCAD

My interest for architecture and urban explorer made me to design maps too!

Between 2004 and 2007 I voluntarily designed artistic maps for Ploiesti and nearby towns, that included block numbers and floor height. I made vectorial drawings in AutoCAD then colored in Paint and distributed freely in PNG. The work took a lot of effort and did not had much use I abandoned it.

In 2009-2010 I also made a very basic map of Singapore in AutoCAD which I published on website in 2016. In 2018 I made a new map to sell it to companies who want a wall map in their office. Low demand for such printed maps made me to STOP drawing maps in AutoCAD indefinitely.

I moved towards making online interactive maps, like Singapore map of HDB blocks made in 2017, where you can click each block and see block information from a database.

Map Design
The Sims 2 planned cities

Gaming – The Sims housing

Many architecture students if they love games, they do play The Sims game. Me too, I play The Sims series since 2003 and The Sims 2 became my favorite game, in which I practiced urban planning talent by building large neighborhoods with non-functional apartment blocks in 2006-2008, before moving to architecture in AutoCAD. I also built over 50 functional houses which I offer for free download on my website.

After 2013 I seldom played game and built new houses, but I keep website running and since 2018 I added information about game itself, such as list of houses available in each neighborhood / world that comes with the game, which turned a successful way to increase website traffic, compared with my personal builds that seems to get little audience.

Web design

I am not saying that I am a web expert, but I made my website myself without any professional help! I have high SEO knowledge that helped my website to be on 1st page of Google for dozens of keywords and raising traffic from 100 visitors per day in early 2012 to 800 visitors per day in 2014.

My coding knowledge is limited to HTML, CSS and WordPress platform. 90% people do not know even such basic stuff, so feel free to contact me if you need a little help in website building or optimization. I do not know PHP so I cannot make custom websites and I do not intend to become a full-time web developer.

Over years I made several friends in webdesign which I can give your projects to, if you need custom website development.

Notes & frequently asked questions

I get often dumb questions like this:
What do you do for a living?
Why did you made these projects?
What is your profession / primary job?
How do you earn money? I do not see any ads! (really dumb question)
Why did you created this website? (question often from Singaporeans surprised by amount of housing information offered without being a real estate agent)

I never had a full-time job. I made a living by working for customers paying me to do various projects (freelancing), but today most of money come from selling completed projects (online store).

I started website in 2009 to show off my works, a portfolio primarily for AutoCAD buildings designed by me after a deep research of Housing in Singapore and other countries. I linked it from freelancing websites hoping to get people hiring me, but I never won any project. Because very few people are interested in someone’s imaginary building designs, I published the housing research too few months later, to share my knowledge and help Singaporeans with free information.

Teoalida is one of the dozens names invented by me at 6 years old, and the name I am known by my real life friends since 12, this is the reason I bought domain name teoalida.com. Nowadays most people come here for specific information that I offer on my website, and less for knowing the author / person behind website or his other projects.

Number of people emailing me was low, but in January 2012 I found live chat software that allowed visitors to talk with me anonymously, give feedback or request projects. The website and my whole life started evolving based on suggestions and project request from people like YOU! By this way I abandoned most of non-paid hobbies to focus on projects paid by customers (projects done before 2012 were voluntarily / personal interest to “show off” to friends, rather than being hired by someone to make them). Website became a MESS of articles and projects that have nothing in common except author.

Making projects on request basis (freelancing) was stressful, especially in architecture where only 10% of people contacting me have paid me and ONLY after seeing (part of) work done, in 90% cases we just wasted hours chatting without success in convincing customer make a deposit before starting actual work (example). Paying customers made me stuck on their projects longer than expected, causing a domino effect of delays for other customers until they hired someone else.

I noticed customers preference to buy completed projects, and data selling turned more successful than architecture (when someone ask something I don’t have, I offer to create database via web scraping, some refused saying “no thanks, I am looking for a database ready available“). Website traffic rose from 200 visitors/day in 2012 to 800 visitors/day in 2014 and I reached my target of $1000/month in 2015 from sales of databases, so I no longer need to create on projects on request basis (unless I can sell to multiple people). I started again doing voluntary projects to increase website audience which indirectly turn in more sales.

Per month the website have ~60,000 visitors, ~600 contact me via live chat (90% of chats I answer in less than 1 minute), few more contact me via email, Hangouts and Skype, ~60 buying something or paying a service, while the rest are thankful for free information offered on website (as 2019, in 2020-2023 figures declined a little). See full statistics.

I don’t put ads on website because estimated earnings from Google AdSense would be $300 for 60,000 visitors, customers may see ads of competitor services, and I will lose sales worth more $ than what I earn from ads.

Can I hire you for a project?

See above traffic figures and imagine how many people battle for my services, I would need to sit at least 48 hours/day at computer if I were to do myself all projects that people request me to do. I can earn more $ doing SEO and marketing to increase sales of existing projects, rather than increasing number of projects.

I am a little man with BIG responsibilities: to provide regular updates for few hundreds companies who purchased databases from me. Consequently I am NOT a freelancer that you can hire to “do a project just for you”. Instead, you can suggest ideas of new projects if you want something that I don’t have already. I do new projects depending by available time and (unless your project can be done in few minutes – example) only if multiple people are interested, and post them on website so anyone interested can make payment and download it in seconds.

You are also welcome if you need 10-minute consultation, having pre-purchase questions about my projects, etc. But if you request an architectural design or anything else that takes hours/days and have NO USE for anyone else than yourself, I won’t spend my personal time helping you, instead I connect you with my partners offering services starting at $10/hour (useful if you need long-term workforce).

Can I work for you?

If you are architect, interior designer, programmer (experienced in data mining), or real estate agent, you are welcome to be my part-time partner and I can pass you leads occasionally.

Some customers suggested me opening a company and have a team ready to do projects without delays. Other customers refused to work with my team and insisted to have project done by myself. Lacking constant flow of customers + difficulties described above) in convincing customers to pay in advance for a project that will be completed in X days (opposite than buying completed projects), is NOT viable to hire full-time staff for each type of service people may ask for.

Should I post on my personal website projects made by other persons?

Don’t post projects made by anyone else, only projects made yourself, let partners post themselves on their page if they have one
Post projects made by partners and indicate name / contact info of the author
Post projects made by partners but don’t indicate author, give impression that you made all yourself
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What is all this mix of stuff on same website?
Are you CAD designer, researcher, database provider, gamer, or…?

I am ALL OF THEM! This is PERSONAL website and my life is very diverse!

Several people suggested making separate websites, one for Singapore housing, one for CAD services, one for database services, etc. But having all them on same website turned helpful, Singapore pages got lots of traffic plus Facebook likes and tweets helped whole website to appear higher in Google, if the services were on a separate website, it would have not getting much traffic and customers.

Some drawings and databases are related to Singapore housing. I also got several collaboration offers from foreign companies who did not visited /design or /database sections directly, they found my website while looking for info about Housing in Singapore or Housing around the World then clicked About me page, saw that I am also in architectural design and data research and contacted me for paid work.

Do you get paid to chat with people? Do you help people for free?

I am NOT employed, affiliated with any government or company, or get paid “to help people”. I am independent, this is my personal website and only YOU can pay, for example if my chat with you helped you to decide to buy a $500,000 property, I appreciate if you can donate to paypal @ teoalida.com whatever sum you like. Example: someone paying $20 for architectural consultation.

Or spread the word on Facebook (especially if you have 2000+ friends or are in a group with 10000+ members, may be more useful for me than donating $20). Try to promote website content and NOT me as person. For example you can post “I found a great website full of information about housing: www.teoalida.com“. DO NOT post “I found a great guy who helped me at homework, go to www.teoalida.com and contact use site owner via his chatbox, he answer any DUMB question in seconds” (in May 2018 during one week I received few dozens strange questions that I could not answer, the fact that most were from United States visiting homepage www.teoalida.com rather than specific subpages, raised suspicion that they were TOLD by someone to “ask Teoalida any questions you have”).

While a short chat consultation is FREE, the research, drawings and database services are NOT FREE. This is how I make a living. If you are NOT PAYING for any service you are advised to not chat too much.

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157 comments about About me – resume – portfolio – fields of activity

  1. Hello, I would like to know if it would be possible to have a chat concerning the Micul Trianon of Floresti. I am also very interested by the subject and I would have some questions to ask you. I have seen you rendering of the place and they are really cool! My email address is [email protected]

    1. I don’t understand why some people post here their e-mail to contact them rather than contact me directly at my e-mail shown on the first paragraph of page.
      I sent e-mail to Pierre, but no answer. WHAT TO DO??

  2. Hi Teo Alida,
    what you do is very interesting, and you hv turned it into a revenue generating passion. Keep it up !!!!!!
    Do visit my website, i will pass some jobs to you to design as Ace Integrated is involve in Storage Space Optimisation – SPACIO is our brand.
    Do lt me know how you may charge 2D & 3D with furnitures n plants etc.
    Thanks
    Annie Tan

    URL: aceintegra.com (dead website)

    1. I visited your website… I am not sure what do you want to work for you, to give a price. Give me more details!
      I have a fixed price only in architecture: $2 per sqm. For other jobs you’re invited to negotiate.

  3. Thumbs Up! I wanted to go sleep after doing my property work for some clients then i chanced onto your site!
    Will be back again to surf through! Good one on the HDB analysis…looking forward to some of your thoughts on the private segment!

  4. Jonas Andersson Tuomaala

    Hello Teo!

    I just downloaded the data I bought from you yesterday. Do you have some internal unique row key,which you could include in the data set. I would be so much easier in the future if I decide to buy more data (collums) from you and we update with new rows (models). I also found a few things I believe is errors which you might wanna improve. Do you want we to communicate errors I spot so you can improve quality on your side?

    Audi TT third gereration, Make: Audi TT => Audi
    Audi 60/75 Variant, Body: Ko =>K
    Ssangyong Rexton: Drivetrain: E=>Z
    TWR Sagaris: Drivetrain: 4=>A
    Drivetrain: All H =>R
    Honda CRX: YearsSold: 1987-1898 =>1987-1992
    Citroen Aircross: Years sold: 2013- => 2013-____
    Renault Captur dci 90: Engine: 5=>F
    Grand Cherokee 3.6 V6 FlexFuel: Fueltype: BE => ETH
    Chevrolet Volt: FuelType: ?=> E

    Br

    Jonas

  5. I just purchased the HDB resale flat prices 2008 – 2013 database. Overall the purchase process worked well and I downloaded the database just after completing the purchase on PayPal. The database is just as promised, and the zip file included three different versions of the database (original, enhanced and merged) as different excel documents. A few minor difficulties I encountered are below:

    I had a little trouble getting a different database out of my cart before checking out on PayPal, but it was solved by clicking the “Clear Cart” button.

    My credit card uses USD, so PayPal tried to convert SGD to USD before charging me. However, it kept warning me that the exchange rate had changed since I clicked the button to accept the purchase, and asking me to accept the purchase again with the new exchange rate. If you experience the same problem, I recommend choosing the PayPal option to buy the database in SGD currency and have your bank apply the exchange rate.

    Gmail sent the email with the download link to my spam folder, but Teoalida warned me this might happen, so I checked my spam folder and found the email right away.

    Thank you for collecting this data and making it available for download! This really helps with my research.

  6. I tried to make this on line service work , sorry to say the guy was not able to convince me he was a professional, his e mails rude and not helpful , glad I realized this in the few e mails between us , I want nothing more to do with this person and believe it best to have personal contact and plans drawn up with people who can visit the site and offer advice , this person does not offer this service , I would only say buyer beware ..,

    1. This guy seems that have mistaken me for living in Philippines… I do not know what is best to build for rental, and he claims me rude and not helpful… that is VERY SAD!
      And sorry for sending a pre-made floor plan instead of drawing a new floor plan for you, but we were undecided what to design.

      As coincidence, I done for a previous customer a block for similar land size https://www.teoalida.com/design/sketches/7x12m-block.png 7x12m block for 7x16m lot and if you want to keep 1.5m on sides it fits well… but what do you want to build more exactly? how many rooms per apartment? Alternatively… studio units https://www.teoalida.com/design/Philippines-Tiny-Apartments.png. Give me some comments before I can design a new floor plan for you.

      Thank you for your prompt reply , Impressed Sir .. look for that piece of land I would like to build either a block of four small apartments all 2 beds if possible,? or plan B just two bigger terraced houses again two beds , might be bedroom one big enough for a double bed some storage room space for a wardrobe , bedroom two, if not enough space for a double bed then enough room for a a single or bunk bed + some storage room ie space for a wardrobe in whatever we build, see e my previous mail below , to tell you the truth cost of either build and rental income of both builds would be the deciding factor of which to build sure you would understand, and I wondered what your thoughts on the two options would be .although small I suppose either choice of what to build the fit and finish I will make sure is very high so as to make them desirable for who ever rents them and to Insure they love living there . very Impressed with your floor plans so far , but a rough sketch of those two floor plans and perhaps two terraced houses as well a rough sketch would be more than helpful, along with your comments of what best to put on that land, the two options above ..being a Pinoy you probably know what best to build for rental Thanks Rodney ..

      I have no idea what made you to think that I am from Philippines or know what is better for rental, I designed many houses for people there but don’t know the real estate market, especially rental one…. you’re immigrant? Not local working in middle east or somewhere else overseas (as most of my customers are)? If you said to keep space in both sides of block (no firewall allowed?) then I am in doubt that you can build 4 units per foor. Unless you build as studio units. And indeed there are BIG buildings dominated by such studio apartments small as 16 sqm, but for sale, not rent. Who is buying that? Do filipinos really love tight spaces or they buy what the corrupt developers are building?

      I am retired sold my business bought a piece of land , more able than at least some of your customers to be able to build on my land , Your attitude is aggressive and down right unhelpful , I wish you every success but somehow doubt it unless you take an anger management course , I do not want to deal with you anymore , I will get in a professional in , on line you are not getting the best guys so it seems .

      Indeed… I am not professional. If you want, go to a professional and PAY him for every advice that personally I offer FREE.

  7. Hey would you be able to do up a scaled layout plan for a small restaurant? Do let me know your availability and charges. Thanks in advance.

    1. Do you have a paper or JPG floor plan that needs to be converted into an AutoCAD drawing? Or I should come with my own floor plan? I am experienced in making own floor plans only in residential field. But give me a try…

  8. Value Investing Singapore

    I think your portal has a wealth of information more than HDB does, at least what we can see from the internet.

    Good info for value property investors in Singapore.

    URL: valueinvestingsingapore.sg (dead website)

  9. Very informative information to Real Estate agent like myself.
    Keep up the good work! Thank you for the free data

    URL: fendylee.com (dead website)

  10. I’m a Singaporean and I’m impressed with your effort to collect data on HDB.
    You are smart, multi talented and self driven with a sense of purpose and direction.
    I hope to see more of your work and wish you great success in life and making our world a better one.

        1. QUOTE from https://www.teoalida.com/singapore/hdbfloorplans
          HDB was founded in February 1960, shortly after People Action Party won national elections of 1959. HDB continued construction of some SIT estates: Queenstown, Kallang Airport, St. Michael, Kampong Tiong Bahru, and launched new estates like Bukit Ho Swee, Brickworks, Alexandra Hill, Redhill, Henderson (in Bukit Merah); Bendemeer, Boon Keng, Kallang Bahru and Tanjong Rhu (in Kallang), Upper Changi Road aka Chai Chee (now part of Bedok), MacPherson (in Geylang), MacPherson Homes (in Toa Payoh).
          The first blocks completed by HDB are Queenstown blk 45, 46, 49, 7-storey blocks styled like SIT.

          It’s impossible to tell a TOP 10 oldest BLOCKS. How do I know exact year of each individual block? They built 50-100 blocks per year in 1960-1965.

    1. I emailed you and received opening confirmation but no reply from you.
      I am afraid that we can’t meet or call. Better let’s use text communication, use the LIVE CHAT in lower-right corner of website daily after 3 PM.

    1. Yes we can chat privately, if you click chat window during sleeping hours you will see at what hours you can find me online. And my online hours change over time.

  11. welldone i have scroll and see much of your works, am impresed. i need a comprehensive CAD drwaing of 4bedroom with penthouse. also with 4bedroom terrace of 1 suspended floor. what is your quote thanks

    1. Do you want a drawing of an existing penthouse (Paper-to-CAD conversion), or you’re going to build it (architectural drawings)? Tell me more so I can give a quote.

      PS: I sent you also an email and haven’t heard any reply.
      Do you like wasting people’s time?

    1. As written on website, BTO brochures CANNOT be downloaded automatically because they are too big to be hosted on server. I sent them via WeTransfer

      1. Hi

        File received via we transfer! thank you very much
        I am also interested in the CAD files. Do you have a database on that too?

        Thanks!

  12. I can’t download the document because it says my payment is pending. Put it’s pending for over 30 minutes. Now.

    Could you please send me the list by mail?

    1. Sometimes if paid via 2checkout, transaction remain in pending, but you paid via PayPal and appears to be complete, not pending. The link was already generated and sent to your email. Check SPAM folder. I also send you an email with attachment but most likely you will not see it due to your strict anti-SPAM filters.

  13. Thanks for the information. I clarified many doubts that I had. I appreciate your honest comments and views. Maybe some people will always take things for granted. Don’t let them affect you.

  14. Hi there! Keep up the great work. I like your site and find it highly useful to know more about our public housing history. In fact, HDB or URA should fund you for your site. Cheers!

  15. Good list. Comprehensive and up to date. Only feedback from my perspective is that would be good to have a row for each device variant e.g. 6 x iPhone X memory & international variants. Thanks!

  16. Thank you very much, appreciate the effort that goes into compiling this spreadsheet, and distributing it for free. The data content is very comprehensive and color coded for easy reading. Well done! 🙂

    1. Say what spreadsheet you are referring to so future customers will know what people buy from me… you “bought” the free Singapore’s BTO / DBSS list

  17. My comments above refers to the free “Singapore’s BTO / DBSS” list I bought from Teoalida. Once again, thank you for the detailed compilation!

    1. Next time post a LONGER comment so future customers will understand what you are thankful for! You downloaded BTO & DBSS Excel file.

    1. Checking purchases on your email I see that you downloaded HDB Median Resale Flat Prices (free product)

      Do you mean that this file have no use for you? Maybe you can explain in detail what do you actually need… we will see if I can help you or not.

  18. Hi

    I went through your website and we would love to

    collabarte with your team on a project

    URL: brandsmark.co (dead website)

  19. Hi

    I went through your website and we would love to

    collabarte with your team on a project.

    URL: brandsmark.co (dead website)

    1. You left same comment a month ago. Please explain what is your project about? Being ONLINE now, I also messaged you on live chat but I did not heard any reply from you!

    1. I can’t believe, you are the 1st person who purchase skyscrapers database made 3 years ago! There’s just too few people interested in such data (compared with much higher sale volume of CAR databases). How do you use this data?

  20. Gee you have a very busy life. Id love to know how someone with your experience ever got this involved with the sim game.

    1. Most houses you see on https://www.teoalida.com/thesims/ are made before 2013 when I was not so busy like today. And the tables of worlds’s lots and houses took just 1-2 hours to post on website in 2018 because I had the tables made since 2013.

      Of course I would like to play The Sims again and build more houses, but I don’t have time!

    1. The Music Database for direct purchase contains my PERSONAL selection of artists, if you want different artists you should have asked for a custom database

  21. HI, I just purchase the database and was disappointed to see that the figures only up to 2017, do you have any updated databases please?
    Thanks!

    1. if you post comments here please specify WHICH database did you purchased so other customers will know what are you talking about.

      The Skyscrapers database I made in December 2015 and it was one of my first scraping projects, Emporis.com is blocking my IP after 1000-2000 pages scraped so I had to change IP several times to make such database. This is a bit of effort and by today (in 3 years) only 3 people purchased it, such low sales discourage me from updating it.

      However I did made in April 2019 a database from SkyscraperCenter.com which do not have IP blocking so it can be updated easily in the future.

      Was better to have a chat with me BEFORE purchasing to understand what data do you need and tell you to purchase other one, or a partial purchase with only US buildings if this is what you are interested in.

  22. Hi, I purchased the HDB-Resale-Flat-Prices-Analysis database. For the price, I cant complain about the data, it is a lot of information for the modest price you ask for, but maybe indicate when the data is updated to so that potential buyers will understand what they are getting. Personally, I am extremely happy with the breakdown of the data you have given, but for my particular use it has no value as the data is 2 years out of date.
    Thanks, Bill.

    1. Sorry for confusion, when I saw your comment I checked what was the LAST purchase, but did not paid attention to email in your comment vs email of purchase, after your purchase and 1 hour before your comment, someone else has purchased US Skyscrapers Database from https://www.teoalida.com/database/buildings/ and I though that was you.

      I maintain over 50 databases that require regular updates, and the HDB Resale Flat Prices Analysis, remained never updated since I originally made it in 2017 because NOBODY ever asked me to update it even if 80 people downloaded it when it was $0 and 6 after I put $1 (I did updated the big database with every individual transactions when it got sales),you are the first who ask for update for this small analysis, so I updated now for you and for future customers. I don’t think that should indicate when data was last updated, anyone who need update can just request me to update it again.

    1. Teoalida is not a sales agent or trying to selll you anything, but a whiz with a pool of useful datas helping u make a better choice when buying your property.

      1. Why did you left this comment? I sell databases, not properties, and Justin is an agent and he bought a town of HDB Blocks Database.

  23. I downloaded the HDB Median Resale Flat prices database to better compare flat prices across neighbourhoods. The data is clear, well structured and updated. Teoalida, thanks so much!

  24. Paid tens of dollars for a customized HDB Point Block database to make a better decision on a >$500k flat……
    Owner rearranged the database for me in minutes…
    Gave me a preview before I bought it!!!

  25. I have been using teoalida for over a year now and have to commend them on their customer service.
    When I need something there is all way someone there…
    Keep up the great work…

  26. Really appreciate the work and service that you are providing and data provided – and fact that you respond to feedback and strive to improve accuracy . Love your work!

  27. The database i received has far exceeded my expectations, not only by the size but also from the attention to detail from the seller.

    I needed a custom database with some special columns and teoalida offered to update it to my database FREE of charge!
    That’s right!

    Support was exceptional and i had really a pleasure to work with!

    Also teoalida is a very nice and friendly guy always eager to help you.
    So if you need a well maintained car database you came to the right place.

    URL: posa-pianei.gr (dead website)

  28. Thanks for the amazing and comprehension of HDB database!! helped a lot for my school project (analysing HDB BTO and resale flat trend)

  29. Amazing response and, meticulously collated, useful data for the masses! 10/10 would recommend to everyone applying for a BTO Flat and wants to form a sound and cogent application strategy

  30. Dear Teo,
    I purchased the mcst list but have not received the receipt and also the list to download the link is missing after downloading it.
    May I know where can I continue to download it again. on top of that several listing are missing information as I have spoken to you on the live char but there was no reply after which.

    1. Thank you for contacting me via live chat to ask re-sending download links. I wasn’t aware that you posted also a comment here, I reply here just to show to other people that I solved issue.

  31. Hi,
    Just purchase this and could not find the link
    My email address is [email protected]

    List of BTO / DBSS projects and SBF – Apr 2001 – Nov 2019, 329 BTO projects, 13 DBSS projects (can be given FREE if you ask for it)

  32. I purchased 2 floor plans and received download link in seconds. you made so many good designs and I feel sorry that you been annoyed by people asking architectural designs free of charge and forced you out of business. I hope that you have more paying customers like me

    1. Hello, I have proficiency in SQL query building. I create queries for data mining. I’m a gamer too, and I’m a freelancer too. If you can, I also want to be your part-time partner.

  33. Hello, I have proficiency in SQL query building. I create queries for data mining. I’m a gamer too, and I’m a freelancer too. If you can, I also want to be your part-time partner.

  34. Wow? You don’t collect monies and people just donate whatever amount they like? Sounds like a church service. Anyway you are intro real estate database, good web traffic controls and writing great stuffs, can we arrange a meeting to discuss further?

    URL: thepilateslab.com.sg (dead website)

    1. We can meet via live chat if you visit my website after 4PM Singapore time.

      I do make enough money from sales of databases, why do you say that I don’t collect money?

      If you are suggesting to make a tax / deposit that must be paid before people can chat with me, that is NOT technically possible, and even if will be, people won’t pay money in advance, many people don’t even leave a contact email until I answer their questions and assure them that can obtain from me the service they require.

      Example:
      auto-respond

      I was outside home with phone battery drained. Why he HAD TO ASK that question when I clearly stated on website “Buy complete database + FREE updates for one year:

      To make things worse, next day he messaged me again when I was at HOME but in kitchen and due to noise I answered him after 10 min, too late, he probably was looking in another tab and did not replied me anymore and closed website 30 min later. Never purchased anything, I wonder what happened with his project since I am the only one selling that database.

      See how some people aren’t making any purchase or payment until I personally answer / confirm that I provide what I stated on website that I provide, even if other people purchase all day and night without any communication with me, as files are sent automatically, such people would never contact me via email if this was only option, so a chat like this that allow people to contact me WITHOUT disclosing their contact info, is a big benefit.

  35. I ordered the triangle. Was I sent the rectangle?
    Name Price
    CentralLiving – Triange floor plan – 7193 objects
    CentralLiving-Rectangle.dwg

    URL: residenceatechopark.com (dead site)

  36. Thanks you for this Yes it did help me about this kind of thing and I am not doing it same way you doing this bit different way I am doing this do with my music Album List and not same way you doing this.

  37. FYI Samuel:

    We have used Teoalida’s car database for Europe for over 3 years and it is always been a treasure trove of information. We continue to use it frequently and have always had responsive customer service from Teoalida that addressed any issues. We recommend Teoalida to anyone needing a complete and functional vehicle database.

    Now the only issue is that new car models are being launched and we do not have them in database. Teoalida has mentioned that will do a major update in May 2020 but has delayed update motivating that is busy providing evidence for a PayPal dispute made by a customer and pointed out your comments. As far I understood you keep asking him to refund your money even after he emailed you the file you paid for.

    If you have issues with the files I suggest having a chat with Teoalida and solve issues friendly. Please refrain from posting negative comments like this or PayPal disputes because by doing this you are not only making his life harder but also my life and lives of hundreds other customers who are using his services will be harder. We all require Teoalida to be in good health and update his vehicle databases for us on regular basis.

    1. I deleted Samuel comments because a visitor interpreted them wrongly that people waste $ and won’t get products. WRONG, all customers get what they pay for, either automatically downloaded from server, either manually emailed by me.

      I have over 100 floor plans stored in a single AutoCAD .DWG file, and over last years if people were interested to purchase them, they had to contact me, negotiate price and email them manually. Since November 2019 I started adding BUY buttons to each project so you can pay with PayPal or Credit Card, case in which I was copy-pasting the particular floor plan you paid for into a separate AutoCAD file and email you or post as download link. I started a process process of copy-pasting each floor plan into a separate file, at the moment Samuel paid, 70 of 100 drawings were available immediate download.

      SAMUEL missed to read above disclaimer, he paid on 6 May at 2 AM and was not patient for me to wake up and add download links / email him the drawing he paid for. He wasted me few hours valued to more than $40, by posting negative comments on website, sending me few emails plus messages via PayPal messaging system asking for refund because paid for a product with no download links, and continued to do this even AFTER I added download links at 10 AM same day, attached .DWG file every time I replied his emails, I also posted download link in PayPal messaging system where he replied “I paid for a downloadable floor plan. It is clear as soon I paid that there are no files to download. You sent me a link that has no file. Please refund my money” and later said that file is invalid (which is probably a LIE) because initially he said that he downloaded (from paid link) same file available for free on website. I wasted time replying him blindly on wrong hypothesis because I don’t know exactly what is the problem on his side. He never explained explaining clearly why he is unhappy by the .DWG file I sent him, never gave me any screenshot to help me understanding problem and help him accordingly.

      He said that is from an American construction company (these are million dollars companies) but care about getting $40 back, he went silent next days so I assumed that he realized that got what he paid for, but nooo… he closed initial PayPal dispute and made another dispute motivating lack of download link (at the time of payment) despite that I added download link 8 hours later (how IDIOT is that?). Maybe if I had ALL floor plan download links set up at the time he made payment, he wasn’t ANGRY as he is now. May be also possible he don’t have AutoCAD installed to open .DWG file but in this case why he started shopping for .DWG files on my website?

      Sales of AutoCAD floor plans bring less than $100/month in my pocket. Sales of car databases produce few thousands $/month. European car database update/redesign will take about 50 hours so it is the PRIORITY. When I have 20 hours of free time I will update the remaining ~30 floor plans and add download links to avoid such disputes in the future. People purchasing AutoCAD floor plans should understand this situation and accept to have certain floor plans emailed by me manually instead of downloading from server immediately after payment.

      I am glad to announce that TODAY 20th June I finished the process started in November 2019 to update all AutoCAD DWG floor plans to current quality standards and make them available for immediate download after payment (like Excel databases) so I will no longer required to email DWG files manually as I did over last few years.

  38. I’m satisfied! I Just used Teoalida’s service to help me with a car search. I had some specific fields I wanted and didn’t want to spend time going to tons of pages on Edmunds/similar to get the info. I contacted Teoalida via chat and he responded in minutes providing a custom car database with the fields I wanted. Well done!

  39. Download of full HDB database received in good order and pretty much as advertised, although I didn’t need items like the SERS predictions and the BTO brochures, all these were included and the download link worked first time. Thanks!

    1. Your english is BAD, what do you need more exactly?

      As far I see you purchased https://www.teoalida.com/database/countries/ , I will update this when I will be less busy, I prioritize updates based on sale volume of each database, and countries database got ONLY 1-2 sales per year at $36… also it DO NOT contain cities.

      Maybe you want to purchase https://www.teoalida.com/database/cities/ instead? This got 6 sales last month and I published an update on 18 June.

  40. Hi, what would be great is to get the world countries, states, and cities in separate files csv/sql files. Most places segregate the data into three tables that synced through indexes and foreign key constraints

  41. I am in the market for a new family vehicle and i came across Teoalida when looking for spreadsheets with car info that i can use to compare different makes and models that i am interested in. I emailed him at night, (after chat hours) and the next morning i got a reply. the customer service was fast, helpful and very responsive. The custom spreadsheet was made within minutes while we were on the chat and for a very reasonable cost, within 20 minutes I had the spreadsheet i needed. all the details were there. I would have spent hours putting this together.
    if i have a need for a custom datatbase I will return again.

  42. This is a very helpful product for color communication. I appreciate the free download and will look at other products.
    Thank you

  43. Hi, I bought two plans at $80.00 but efforts to open them both on my phone and laptop have failed. I get notification that i do not have the right app to view the documents. Could you kindly help me out with what to do?

    I cant rate the transaction yet as it has not satisfied my order.

    Thank you

    1. You made me crying again for making BIGGEST MISTAKE to go into architecture. 99% of customers buying databases from me are HAPPY, but those buying floor plans, happiness ratio is only 80-90%.

      If the period I was drawing houses on request basis was a huge WASTE OF TIME, due to LOW number of paying customers and difficulties in convincing customers to pay part of price in advance wasn’t worse enough, now since I added “buy AutoCAD DWG files” buttons to all my past projects, I see customers LIKE YOU paying without prior communication with me, and without reading my website carefully to understand what they get… you NEED AutoCAD (paid software) to view and edit the DWG files I am selling, you contacted me via live chat after purchase and after posting this comment, I advised you to install a FREE DWG viewer, then you complained about missing elevations and sections, despite that I clearly stated on website that $40 is floor plan only.

      SAMUEL (he is still subscribed to comments so probably will read this comment) also purchased with NO prior communication with me and after few minutes posted a rubbish comment (now deleted) without being patient to copy-paste the floor plan into a separate DWG file and send him, after I attached drawing to email kept complaining that there is no floor plan to download, etc. He may had same problem, but instead of explaining nicely “I don’t have AutoCAD, can you please send me PDF?” (or whatever other format) he acted like a complete idiot wasting my time and making PayPal dispute without any proper reason.

      If you need elevations and sections, my partner architects who are less busy than me can help you (for an extra fee).

      If by absurd case I will have time and interest for architecture again, and will design elevations for my past projects to sell together with floor plans, how detailed need to be drawn elevations to not take too much time, but also not too simple to make customers HAPPY?

  44. I requested the “Countries database – LITE version – Country area and population”. I have been looking for an in-depth collection of countries and populations for several months. No list has come close to this one. If there are specific things you are looking for, Teoalida can adjust for your needs. I have been looking for this kind of database so that I can track my bucket list(visit every country in the world) accomplishments. Thank you Teoalida!

  45. I requested the “Countries database – LITE version – Country area and population”. I have been looking for an in-depth collection of countries and populations for several months. No list has come close to this one. If there are specific things you are looking for, Teoalida can adjust to your needs. I have been looking for this kind of database so that I can track my bucket list(visit every country in the world) accomplishments. Thank you Teoalida!

  46. i just want to say thank you for creating this site and taking the effort to really collect all these information. Helping me to understand history of HDB which is very useful and insightful. thank you, may you be bless!!!

  47. I’m so very grateful to Teoalida for keeping his car database alive and updated over the past 10 years that we have been using it. We value they commitment and quality of work by the site owner. Thank you.

  48. Thanks for the year, make, model, trim databases teoalida. Your work is amazing and saves many hours of trying to collect data from around the internet. I also read your lawsuit page (teoalida.com/cardatabase/lawsuit/) and appreciate ethically sourced data which is safe to use for projects! Great work keep it up. Happy to help and support your work! 5/5 A+

  49. Teoalida is one of my most important source of HDB historical info. As a journalist who only started writing on HDB articles for a few years, there are a lot of information which I do not know of and many have been taken down from HDB website.

  50. I work in an office and my job is tedious and monotonous. I still have a good life, though. I asked for help from this service. An expert CV was written for me by writers with experience, emphasizing information that shows exactly what I can do for the organization and displaying my financial achievements cv editing services Despite the fact that I detest leadership, I was overjoyed to be offered the role.

  51. Appreciate your work, searched a few time of hdb brochure from your website, well maintained. last time, HDB still keep the brochure on their website, not sure why they remove it. they also have the 3D model photo of their project, nowdays, also cannot find from hdb website. thank you so much for your good work!

  52. Teoalida housing data is so resourceful. I do come here from time to time to get hdb updates . And I like the fact that I don’t get spam my unnecessary ads . Thank you so much for the work done and sharing Ll the information with the public.

  53. Very grateful for your website showing seismic risks. Very informative and honest. My wife and I want to move to Bucharest (she is RO/US and I am US only). Looking for apartments to purchase has been very difficult and the website has helped us very much. Thank you!

  54. Your Excel table showing information about which Sims 4 packs contain new worlds and information about the number/type of lots was extremely helpful and exactly what I was looking for. I hope that I can recommend your paid work to others in the future. Is it okay to mention your website on Twitter? I only have a few thousand followers, but they are from around the world and maybe you might find a customer or two from among them.

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