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Hi, I relocated here a year ago. My rental is $1800 per mth, and 1 contracted for 1 year but then my agent said it is a market 'practice' to collect the 1 mth agent fees... well, i paid 1 mth as agent fees indeed. Now they are trying to make me pay the subsequent extension that i planned to continue...

ScoobyDoes - i think your contract are more 'former' than mine since there is a stamp duty. Mine is really just a piece of paper, then get me & owner signed, then 3 of us (agents, owner and me) keep that piece of paper. This is really a bad experience to me and a lesson learned. But of course we can...

thankssssssss ya.. everybody ! ksl : hey, quite a good suggestion - getting a mover to move out everything :) I see what do you mean. To be honest, I would like to save the troublesome to move out those furniture by engaging a mover - i think it will cost me around $500-$600 for the whole house (I o...

Oh great... thanks for the web page ! After read the act, meaning the instrument /written document will need to have a 'stamp' on the face of the document. So what I have signed earlier with my owner has no such "stamp". I really appreciated those who chip in your opinions here ! Thanks so much. I j...

Thanks for both of your reply ! I really appreciated and wanted to hear opinions. jpatokal - that's what i thought, and this is what i proposed to my owner as well. We both agreed to work on this way. ScoobyDoes - I spoke with my contract manager in the US, she has the same thought as you :). She th...

Hi all, Need your advice here, as i moved to Singapore about 1 year by now. Back in 2008 Aug I engaged an agent to find me a house, and i paid her 1 month commission with the contract of 1 year which is going to expire on 01 Sept 2009. Unfortunately, there was a clause inside that contract where it ...

Hi all,
I'm also new here just touched down 30Jun from Penang island.
Would love to know more people from the same country as well ^_^