Hi thread starter and all forum members,
Would like to share my experience with all of you out there.
I have been looking for a HDB unit since 2 years ago, and until now i am currently still renting a room at Hougang area with a monthly rental of S$550 excluding untilities and not allow any cooking. Thus my monthly expenses could easily mount up to S$2,000 per month (as my wife is not working, just gotten her PR).
As i have just started work not long ago, around 13 months, my CPF ordinary account is less than S$10K. I am really mad at the HDB system that i wrote an email to Mr. Lee Hsien Loong on early May 2008 (too bad, his secretary replied me, as i have already presume, he would be too busy to reply to a common citizen like me), and recently another email to Mr. Mah Bow Tan, pleading with him to help me make an appeal to HDB as i couldn't get a HDB unit, and have been moving from place to place (landlord increase rental abruptly or unreasonable landlord). He tried appeal to HDB once for me, however, i think he himself gave up on HDB with their reply as follows:
HDB given me 3 options, which all 3 turns out to be nonsensical answers. They have replied to me and left me with the following 3 options:
(1) BTO : Getting a BTO flat, and there's no guarantee that i can, coz of the queueing system, gotta have a computer to generate your queue number basing on certain criteria, and after getting a number, if you are lucky, you will get a HDB unit, maybe in 4-5 years time;
(2) Buying from Open market: Guess what that idiotic guy (Head of HDB Sales Operation) from HDB replied to me, i would be able to find a HDB unit that is close to valuation or even at valuation --> This really piss me off....Think HDB personnel never conduct any market survey or perhaps don't bother. I really don't know what the F%^$ he was thinking about to have replied me this. If you are the owner, would you sell at valuation price only, guess HDB people doesn't have the luxury to surf the internet and make any reference to
property webby (or perhaps they don't care)
(3) Lastly they replied me with a SORRY, saying that it would not be fair for them to release a miserable unit to me, as it would not be fair for others in the queue.
I got so flare up and replied to Mah Bow Tan, and cc a copy to the respective Sales Head, and this is what i wrote:
Are the HDB able to find a HDB unit that is closed to valuation or at valuation price, if they are able to, then perhaps, i would have buy from them immediately. Have the HDB ever conduct market research at all, are they too contented with their job, that they would just perform the normally office routine without conducting any market research and survey? And only after this, i got a phone call from HDB sales department, saying that they could offer me their help by helping me look for ....not a HDB unit, but an agent. What in the heck do i need an agent for??? There's alot of agents everywhere, be it newspaper or internet. I asked the phone operator, does your agent differ from others outside the market, unfortunately, she replied with a "NO". But there's really no way that i could reject her kind intention. Therefore i gladly took the offer that she gave. And before she hang up, she said that she would get the respective agent to call me ASAP, and i told her, it would definitely be a high mountain for the agent to climbe to have picked up my case.
And sadly, it has been 2 weeks, and no one called me. I don't know at this point of time, i should be feeling sad or happy. It seems that Singapore is not a land for the poor.