Clear landlord’s home, wash garments as soon as a month: Room in Toa Payoh flat snapped up in a day regardless of bizarre guidelines, Singapore Information

When searching for a rental residence, most would select to keep away from landlords with strict and odd guidelines. 

Nevertheless, the restrictions set by the proprietor of a flat in Toa Payoh did not appear to discourage potential tenants this time round. 

Final month, property agent Arun Kumar posted a TikTok video promoting a room in a unit positioned alongside Toa Payoh Lorong 5 for hire. 

Nevertheless, the value comes with a catch — it is “stuffed with restrictions”, wrote Arun within the video. 

A few of these restrictions embody having to scrub the home for the owner, no cooking and solely being allowed to clean garments as soon as a month. 

And that is not all — using the air conditioner and utilities are additionally chargeable. 

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“Identical to staying in jail however you get to pay hire. So rattling shiok,” the property agent jested. 

Responding to Arun’s video, netizens had been fast to dismiss the supply, citing the dear hire and ridiculous guidelines. 

Room taken up inside a day 

Opposite to netizens’ opinions, Arun tells AsiaOne that the Toa Payoh room was snapped up inside a day of promoting. 

“I even had affords above the asking value, the placement is superior,” he mentioned, including that 18 teams of potential tenants got here by to view the unit, which is owned by a pair of their thirties. 

The room was ultimately let loose to 2 feminine coworkers who seemingly had no points with the rules.

When requested concerning the causes behind these guidelines, Arun mentioned that he typically advises landlords to place down sure guidelines earlier than letting rooms out to tenants.

He attributes this to the truth that he has come throughout a number of “nightmare” tenants in his three many years as a property agent. 

“[It’s] to keep away from conflicts down the road. In any other case, tenants can be beneath the impression that this can be a resort,” he defined. 

He didn’t say if the rules for this room had been particularly prompt by him. 

Different bizarre calls for by landlords 

Earlier this month, a Singapore everlasting resident, Felix Lim, took to share among the ludicrous demands made by landlords he got here throughout whereas searching for a spot to remain. 

“Some locations are like ‘I solely need you to work 9-to-5 jobs’,” Lim cited for instance. 

Within the video, he additionally complained that a number of landlords ask for private particulars such because the potential tenant’s race and occupation. 

“The costs are already so excessive and also you need to impose all these bizarre guidelines,” he lamented, including that a few of these included no cooking and particular instances to do your laundry. 

Lim additionally shared an anecdote from a buddy, who was requested to place a bucket after they bathe to “save water”. 

The water would then be utilized by the owner to water vegetation. 

“Are all of us not people? We simply need to dwell collectively coherently,” he lamented. 

ALSO READ: Landlord from hell? Tenants of Sengkang flat claim she monitors their movements, limits shower time to 5 minutes. 

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