Tag Archives: Landlord

Recently, a Malaysian man (Koh) who has been working in Singapore since February this year as a kitchen staff has shared his experience of dealing with a difficult landlord. Koh rented a unit in Hougang, Singapore where he stayed with a roommate. In an interview with China Press, Koh said that …

Other than charges for lockdown, he is also charged additional $2/day if he is on night shift, $10/day if he is on MC, and $13.33/day if he is on his annual leave.

Local bar Sum Yi Tai had to shut down its operations after its landlord insisted on "pre Covid rent." During their handover, the team allegedly faced bullying by two of the landlord's employees.

A contributor wants to warn others who are intending to rent an office space in Ubi Centre. According to screenshots sent to us, the Ubi landlord allegedly did not return the tenant's deposit after the 2-year lease was over. The tenant has been chasing for the $3000 deposit since August 2019, but the landlord has been making excuses that he "has no money to return" even though he has rented out four other office spaces.

A local couple moved into a rental house and caused such a ruckus, their landlord ended up homeless despite countless attempts to reclaim his home. The 51 year-old landlord works at a supermarket and has lived in his 3 room Hougang flat for over 30 years. To supplement his income, he started renting out his house 10 years ago.

Let me weigh in why I'm estatic and rejoicing over this sorry state of affairs over our downtown retail scene. Not too long ago, if your wages had been stagnated or lowered, or worse if you had lost your job because your employer couldn't afford to keep you, high chance it was because of rising costs. The key riding cost- retail space rentals. While landlords had a field day raising rentals and laughing their way to the bank, the workers have been on the suffering end of escalating rentals, all vulnerable with no real unions to protect them. Well, now I'm glad to see the camels back has broken. Businesses find it too expensive to operate here. Business are pulling back. Some even pulling out of Singapore. Time for landlords to suffer. Time to lower their rentals. After all this is a free market.

Landlord listed so many conditions. Tenants can only do laundry on stipulated days. To make it even more ridiculous, even aircon got official operating hours. Now that tenant is evicted, why does tenant have to pay for the washing of the mattress?

Since today, wife and I have been living in fear... of RATS! This is all because of the previous tenants, who did not keep the room clean. We regret trusting the owner's words about this place. Story starts when we rented this room, I asked the owner who are the previous tenants. She told me that all of her tenants are Singaporeans, so I trusted her as I thought that Singaporeans usually very clean one. End up I realized that the house was previously rent to a bunch of PRCs, nevermind.