ianlaird wrote:Hi
As i will be moving to Singapore in August/September and i shall be taking a lease out on a
condo.
I would like to know how many month rent needs to be put in place at the start of the lease, someone mentioned to me 1 months deposit and 2 months rent up front!
Anyone confirm this or is this the discretion of the landlord?
what can i say? Discretion of the tenant, but it also makes sense to pay double deposit, because you are renting for two years, and if you rent for 3 it would be 3 years deposit right! It's called English, Irish and Scotish logic, that's what happens when you come to work in Singapore

and

I am too!
I mean in most logical situations, if it's a newly decorated place, one would expect to pay suffcient to cover the cost of re-decorating, this maybe 2 or 3 months rent, depending on which country one is living, although everything is relevant to the apartment, but only if the place is newly refurbished.
I scratch my head with this 2 years 2 month deposit,
I just cannot fathom the logic, at all. 2 months rent is enough to bloody build a new apartment in Singapore, providing you have the land. (That was a joke, by the way)
when you think a 1500 sq ft costs 1,700$ to have half a dozen painters run in and finish in a day, its kind of taking everyone to the cleaners, because theres no law against it. Use your discretion Ian old son