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by pragmatic
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 4:52 pm
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

Do you think this is ok? do we need to add more? We _______________ (Tenant’s Names), were the tenants at XXXX from 29 January until 29 May 2013. A security deposit of XXXX was paid to you by us. It has been more than fifteen days since 29 May 2013. We have not received a refund of our deposit a...
by pragmatic
Mon, 10 Jun 2013 3:08 pm
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

sorry error in posting = shouldnt instead of should we are already living elsewhere.. we are just waiting for the deposit refund promised.. as for the link posted ..http://www.tnp.sg/content/tenants-hell-strike-again we shouldnt jump into conclusion... there must be a reason why they did what they d...
by pragmatic
Mon, 10 Jun 2013 1:15 pm
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

we are already living elsewhere..
we are just waiting for the deposit refund promised..


as for the link posted ..http://www.tnp.sg/content/tenants-hell-strike-again
we should jump into conclusion... there must be a reason why they did what they did..
by pragmatic
Mon, 10 Jun 2013 1:12 pm
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

till now no news yet from LL and agents..
on June 12 is the 14th day...
if no news yet.. we will begin writing them with a deadline...
then we will do the next steps if that fails..
by pragmatic
Thu, 06 Jun 2013 8:14 am
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

today is the 7th day from the handover and still no word yet from LL :(
by pragmatic
Sun, 02 Jun 2013 1:34 pm
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

during our meeting with the owners (mother and father) they spoke to their agent in their language (we didnt understand) then their agent advise us that LL agreed to terminate our lease but they will deduct prorated amount of their agents fee in our deposit which we didnt agree. as the meeting is go...
by pragmatic
Sun, 02 Jun 2013 12:34 am
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

thank you all for your great advice.. we handover the keys on 29th May LL have 7 days from that day to give us what remains in our deposit as per the contract they claimed that they have 14 days i sms the owner's agent to enquire on what happened. why the owner's kids are singing a different tune fr...
by pragmatic
Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:46 pm
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

LL's kids just sms our agent... they said that there is no deposit in the first place. they said our deposit was forfeited! they want us to give them more money for cleaning of the house... wtf!!! we were just talking about the deposit before we left the house! their agent sms us that they have 14 d...
by pragmatic
Fri, 31 May 2013 3:51 pm
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

we agreed to get a services of a cleaning company to clean the owner's house. they told us it would cost 408sgd for 6 hrs of cleaning. We ask them to deduct the amount in our deposit. it is right for them to reject our request to deduct it from our deposit? we wish for us to pay for the services fir...
by pragmatic
Thu, 30 May 2013 6:54 am
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

Update! we went to handover the keys last night ang the owners kis got a lot of drama happening!!! they complained that the house is not clean enough - they prefer to get their own cleaning company as they said they do not trust the one we are going to get to clean how they like it to be. - we said ...
by pragmatic
Mon, 06 May 2013 2:35 pm
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

Agent posted the unit at paya lebar way avail for rent online... saw the description of the unit...
it states there "Nice owner".... :roll:
by pragmatic
Sun, 05 May 2013 3:46 pm
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

thanks for the info.. when we signed the contract the LL wanted the money in cash. they decline to simply give us their account number to have it transfered. One possible reason why they are doing this is becoz the upgrade of the hdb is near to end. new lift just outside their door is finished. i gu...
by pragmatic
Thu, 02 May 2013 8:44 am
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

we just spoke to the LL. they advised that due to it was their son liaising with us they do not have any idea of what was happening. we agreed to terminate the lease by end of the month. we are still in the midst of discussion if we are ok to deduct the owner's prorated agent's fee in our deposit. J...
by pragmatic
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:47 pm
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

owner is singaporean
they never gave us any approval letter from hdb.
we will email hdb instead.
tq tq tq
by pragmatic
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 9:45 pm
Forum: Property Talk, Housing & Rental
Topic: Nasty landlords
Replies: 38
Views: 16333

btw, does any1 know how to check if the unit is hdb approved for rent? our neighbor told us to check if the unit we are staying are hdb approved or not coz they think its not.

can we check it online using the owner's details?

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