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Beg to differ on how it's a local trend to treat maids badly. I have seen my share of foreigners treating maids badly too. Been house hunting and have seen how some foreigners made their maids sleep in the smallest room in the house with no windows/ventilation when they have at least one other bigge...

We are looking out for property to buy and shocked by the prices too .... Property speculation is a huge tax on everyone, prices of food clothes & what have you are all inflated in price due to high rentals. I don't see how the Singapore government is so all mighty as well to prevent a fall/crash in...

Just an update that we managed to get most of our deposit back minus a few hundred dollars for getting expensive technicians to "look at" electrical appliances which are in perfect working order. But we were too tired of this whole thing to argue on that. Just happy it was just a few hundred dollars...

I agree with you totally on the professional inventory clerk. Better to invest time on making everything clear before moving in. It would be a better idea if a third party/organisation holds the deposit instead of the LL.

As long as they don't get it done themselves after handover and deduct from my deposit directly ....

It's interesting how aircon maintenance is clearly stated in the TA but not for the other kinds of maintenance ....

The agent kind of suggested it when he brought visitors over for viewing. In all fairness, wear and tear is a very subjective/obscure term. We had rented an apt once where there was already something wrong with the entire plumbing of the house. All the agent did was to get someone who claimed to be ...

ok, thanks for the replies. Of course we will not leave the house in a mess when we do the handover. It will be cleaned, mopped etc to a good standard fit for living. I'm talking about hiring cleaning services of professional level (not talking about part-time domestic helpers/myself cleaning it) an...

Hi Apologies if this qn has been asked before. We are moving out of a place soon and wondering if we are responsible for the following (as in engage professional service and producing receipts to landlord) as they are not stated in the TA (1) Cleaning of oven (2) Cleaning of the entire house (3) Dry...