Singapore Expats

Hi All,

I am an EP holder and stayed in a rental unit for last 4 yrs ( initial contract is 2 yrs, extended for 2 times 1 yr each) and vacated recently. On the handover date, neither the Owner's agent nor me had the checklist/inventory doc. I did cleaning and handover the keys to owner's agent. After 2 days, Owner's agent came with a list of items to be replaced or repair amounting to my entire deposit (3600$) which i disagreed or requested more details and price quoted for most of the items (ex: repainting entire unit (3room unit) =1500$) completely unacceptable.

Today i attended the first hearing for my SCT claim.

The registrar mentioned the case may not be under SCT judistriction as i stayed in the house for 4 yrs. (2 yrs initial contract and 2 times renewed the contract for 1 yr) and moved the case to other date requesting both parties to produce additional docs. I informed them the last contract is for 1 yr and it should be within the SCT judistriction. The registrar asked me to put my comments in additonal docs and judgement will be on the next date.

Any help from your perspective how to take it to next step if SCT pass discontinued order please?

Please Advise.
Thanks.

I would think if SCT doesn't work well for you then you will need your lawyer to get this through. Not sure if it's worth it because legal fees cost a lot depending on the complexity of your case.

Thanks a lot for your response

sgpr2021 wrote:Hi All,

I am an EP holder and stayed in a rental unit for last 4 yrs ( initial contract is 2 yrs, extended for 2 times 1 yr each) and vacated recently. On the handover date, neither the Owner's agent nor me had the checklist/inventory doc. I did cleaning and handover the keys to owner's agent. After 2 days, Owner's agent came with a list of items to be replaced or repair amounting to my entire deposit (3600$) which i disagreed or requested more details and price quoted for most of the items (ex: repainting entire unit (3room unit) =1500$) completely unacceptable.

Today i attended the first hearing for my SCT claim.

The registrar mentioned the case may not be under SCT judistriction as i stayed in the house for 4 yrs. (2 yrs initial contract and 2 times renewed the contract for 1 yr) and moved the case to other date requesting both parties to produce additional docs. I informed them the last contract is for 1 yr and it should be within the SCT judistriction. The registrar asked me to put my comments in additonal docs and judgement will be on the next date.

Any help from your perspective how to take it to next step if SCT pass discontinued order please?

Please Advise.
Thanks.

Thanks for sharing. Lesson here for us all to be careful of longer leases as it can be much more expensive if there are disputes. BTW what happened?


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