Standard Operating Procedure - SOP

Question: Was wondering if my questions about more information on procedures reaches you fine. As the day of our meeting approaches, I would like to re-enquire "the detailed steps and procedures and what can I expect from this entire engagement".
I would also like to know my rights and obligations.

I sincerely hope my request for information are not considered unreasonable as this is the first time I am engaging professional consultant.

Many Thanks and Advance Apologies if I sounded pushy for information.

Answer: First time encounter of such question after so many rounds of work. Would have walk off from this job. Anyway, on second thought it is also very valid. So we reattached herewith a "normal" circumstances of "the detailed steps and procedures and what can I expect from this entire engagement".

1. Have breakfast then go to your house

2. Read your bazi

3. Audit your great external

4. Audit your internal

5. Audit your room

6. Break for lunch

7. Internal discussion

8. Response to you regarding d FengShui

9. Discuss what to do next

10. Set out for your house

11. Job done. Collect fee and reimbursable. Complete stage audit, recommendation and setting out.

12. Sent us back to hotel

13. You may join us for dinner

14. End of day 1

15. Will email you date time of renovation if require

16. When completed, our representative will come to re-verify setting out. Then you pay the final installment plus reimbursable if any.

Your rights - Either party may terminate our services at any point or stages as and may be warranted.

What About Water Features

Question: 

By the way, just curious if there is a necessary to do some water features or fountains in order to enhance my house FengShui?

Answer:

Not compulsory, unless for short turnovers of which you will need to pay back. It is very common to hear the XuanKong proponent in activating the annual or monthly Qi using water placement. Qi stimulating is a method for short term gain based mainly on the month's Qi. Coupled with the monthly "luck" in accordance to one's BaZi, everyone using that particular space would experience different effects. A good luck person would experience significant increase of opportunity in the expense of the bad luck person, if there are more then one person using that particular space. Otherwise, such increase in opportunity would means to hasten auspiciousness in the expense that when the person's luck make a dive, such dive would be doubled in effects. It all boils down to the "balance sheet" of one's BaZi. 

Should I Hang A LuoPan?

Question:

My neighbor has this LuoPan hung above his car porch pointing towards my house. What am I going to do? Should I use a fork and point against it? I thought LuoPan is supposed to be a tool, just liked what you are using to measure my house. 

Answer: 

There are many taboos in relation to the LuoPan. Liked YinYang, it may be true for some aspects, but yet false in other aspects. Like in your case, if you think the LuoPan is just a tool, yes it is a tool as a compass to measure. Yet, beyond that it is also a vessel. Any physical object you see and is empty within is potentially a vessel. Being an empty vessel it is potentially to be occupied by entities. This is not FengShui per se. That is why it is true in some aspect, yet false in the others. Your neighbor has used the LuoPan as a vessel for the residing guardian spirits to protect his house. So, there is nothing you need to do about it.

Saying thus, there is a practice in Yin FengShui, where it is thought that the LuoPan may be possessed if you place it directly on the ground. So, you need a bucket of uncooked rice to rest your LuoPan with. This is again, not FengShui, yet it is true in another aspect. Same goes with the fact that some old masters refuse to open up the LuoPan when the sun is set. There are some truths in that.

In the years of practice, sometimes we are not able to take measurements with our LuoPan for certain unknown reasons. We may blame it to the unstable Qi fluctuations. Yet, there are far more reasons to that. 

How Much Do You Charge For House Selection

Question:

FP charges SGD... for 3 house assessment for selection. That is without the detailed study and advice. How much do you charge? Excluding flight/hotel stay in Singapore?

I take your point about having an on-site audit. Like you said, its a privilege that requires investment.

2nd part, I think FP's audit process is just like yours. There is more serious audit / work after selection (more charges too.. but I have yet to find out) SGD... charged by her is for 3 choices like your Preliminary Audit and Recommendation Phase I think.

How do you charge for the rest of the process?  Setting Up, Completion and Review?
Is the "A detail recommendation (in writing) of the necessary remedy where required for the selected house." the things I need to do during the renovation?

What is the difference between this and "Interior FengShui Setting during and after renovation"

Sorry please bear with my clarifications. After this I think I will understand your audit process a lot clearer!

Answer:

SGD... for 3 houses selection assessment is a reasonable price.

The right selection is always the best line of defense. I am a little curious as to what she meant by without detailed study and advice? Usually the master will tell you, such as if you chose A, this will happen to you..., B, this will happen to you..., C, and so forth. In conclusion, out of the 3 choices, perhaps B may suit you better... and to rectify some of the setbacks, this is what required of you to do.... and so forth.

Remember, a good master will always provide you with choices and recommendations. Through our experiences, Heaven is very fair, at most of the time, the conditions are quite neutral. Meaning the positive Qi is quite balance out the negative Sha. There is always room to fine tune the loose ends, such as example, locking of the water mouth and so forth.

Excluding flight & stay our charges are SGD... per house, for selection only. So, if it is 3 houses, it will be SGD... , more expensive then... Again, if you notice, there is always a choice, for example, if you need more options, you pay more. More options means more opportunity for you to select and more work for the master to do. By such it is always fair to both parties. This fee will include the followings: -

   1. One time BaZi reading for yourself and your spouse.
   2. A detail recommendation (in writing) of the necessary remedy where required for the selected house.
   3. Date selection for moving in.

What is not included: -

   1. Ritualistic requirement for moving in for the Deities (if any). If require, we would recommend our fellow associates.
   2. Interior FengShui Setting during and after renovation which is as prescribed as the 5 phases in the following tread http://fengshuiquanyuanqanda.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-do-you-charge-for-audit.html

On the 2nd part, the same does apply. For instance, once you have decided with an options based on our recommendation, we will delineate to you as to our choice options and what are the matters that need to be improved. In the worst case, you may need to select another location. This, we have not encountered before. In the most preferred case, everything  falls at its correct place. That also we have not encountered before. The closest was a site selection for a bungalow, where the formations are just perfect. Then, so perfect that the owner decided to migrate to the US the next day, because he just got a US contract that worth millions in USD.

Most of the cases we encountered needs a certain degree of ratifications. For such general purposes, you will be looking at the range of SGD3880-8880, depending on the neighborhood you are in, and the disbursement be made in 4 installments as prescribed in http://fengshuiquanyuanqanda.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-do-you-charge-for-audit.html.

Hope this explanation helps,

Should you need further enquiry please do not hesitate to ask for we believe the info we prescribed herewith is sufficient for you to take the next course of action.

How Do You Charge For An Audit?

Question:

I was referred by my friend about your FengShui services and would like to enquire as to your audit Fees that is way below the market price liked … Does it means to say you guys are under cutting the rest. Would your charges reflect that you guys are equal to those Junior Consultants from …? Would the level of your services be of compromised?

Answer:

First and foremost there is no standard Fee. Second, even if we agree to perform a preliminary audits, that doesn’t mean we ought to provide you a full service. We believed that some prefers to levy a hefty sum of Fee, so that the consumer will feel the pinch and would not go to another master, because of the Fee paid. We however, do not succumb to such a practice. We do not take FengShui as a Business Model, but a model of Humanity.

We only take in cases when: -

1) There is a Affinity between us and the consumer
2) Such work does not hamper our conscience
3) Such work does not results in us breaking other peoples’ FengShui

So, if you think you want to engage us, to test us out in a FengShui war, then kindly look for others. We are not interested.

We usually phase our work through different phases: -

1) Preliminary Audit – We charge by a token sum. Click HERE for enquiry. The reason being your case is also our storehouse of knowledge. We treat each and every case unique. For all purposes the issue raised must fall within our method of diagnosis, until such that it breaks the first hypothesis, and then it is our role, to re investigate such flaws in the first hypothesis. This is part Science of FengShui. We document every case. So, it is not only us doing you a favor, it is you also doing us a favor. That is Affinity. The token sum is only measurable for our means of compensating our out of pocket expenditure such as transportation within the Klang Valley. There is no valid reason why must we charge a hefty sum for such a preliminary audit, unless otherwise for a matter of greed and commercialization?

2) Recommendation Phase – If we see the situation as being on a charity basis, we would even return the token Fee and do it free of charge. This phase usually consists of us making a recommendation to the consumer. It is also a critical phase for us to decide of taking up the job or just denying taking up the job. Affinity again is at play. Here, we charge accordingly to the complexity of the case, Heaven’s will, consumer’s attitude and the affordability of the consumer themselves. We however do not take lump sum. This Fee will be broken down to another 3 installments, with the other 2 being paid at the following phases.

3) Setting Up Phase – We would set up accordingly and follow by a series of consultation with the consumers and their renovators. This also includes a series of email correspondence with even their appointed Architect or ID Consultants. Finally, we will choose a date to commence work. Upon commencement of setting out, the second installment would be paid out.

4) Completion Phase – Upon completion of physical work by the renovators or builders, we will be in presence to verify the setting. If everything goes well, we would follow up with the proposal of a moving in date. Here the final installment is to be paid up.








5) Review Phase – 1-3 reviews depending on case by case basis will be conducted Free of charge.












We practice such, so that at any phases of work, the consumer has the right to engage others if they are not satisfy with our performance. This, rarely happen. Such options may not be the best business model, but we are satisfied as long as we don’t owe anyone and our consciences are cleared. Similarly so, if it happens that we found out the consumers are being not so genuine in their dealings. We may also walk away in that situation. So, the arrangements are mutually beneficial and in no way, we see ourselves as being undercutting.

Again, we do not operate with a Business model that there are Hierarchy of Junior, Intermediate or Senior. Even our representatives are well trained for a specific performance, without the presence of the master. The risk of the lack of comfort would be eliminated by our group practices strategies. Very often than not, we would deliberate options rather than only solution so that quality of works would remain consistent through out.

We hope this will help in your evaluation.