I would say it is not but I do not have statistically relevant sample of experience I do not recall having this kind of rubbish in our last LOI. If you are not happy with any sort of agreement you do not sign it. Besides, IIRC somebody has proven here or in another thread that LOI is actually worth not more then the paper is written on.Seasoul wrote:
So clearly the landlord can decide not to go on with the tenancy and just give the "good faith deposit" back, but if the Tenant does so, he looses the good faith deposit, how is this legal/fair/normal ?
I am sad that you are in this situation But I cannot help you since you have called me a "jerk" even if I want to. It is unwarranted of you to call names on someone that you have no clue who they are and what they have contributed.I would not want to help. Even if I know how to solve it , I would not be appreciated. Good Luck with your experience. Remember what you called me ? Life is fair and it comes in a circlecocorossello wrote:Hi,
We (my girlfriend and myself) are having a lot of problems with our landlord and I would like to ask a couple of questions.
We moved to Singapore 4 months ago and rented a nice (and very expensive.. 2200S$ per month) room in Chinatown area.
The apartment was being refurbished when we moved in, so at the beginning we didn't have all the furniture in our room, neither in the common area.
The main problem was that, one month later, he installed a CCTV in the apartment, to record the common areas.
There is no mention of CCTV in the contract, and we spoke with him because we don't want to be recorded in our own apartment. We are the only tenants in the apartment and we don't think we need this CCTV, the building already has security.
Anyway, we stayed in the apartment. The next month we had a humidity problem in our room and when we said it to the landlord, he said that he was going to repaint the room. The thing is that he just came into our room (without letting us know) and repainted it, and told us to sleep in another room for 4-5 days. This is clearly a privacy violation and we advised him.
Also, as we didn't like the CCTV idea, I changed the router configuration so the cameras were not recording anymore (MAC address filtering). Now he thinks that I deleted all the recorded data and he is advising me that it is ilegal and he is very angry with us.
With all this in mind, we want to move out by the end of this month (in 2 weeks) and the problem is that he won't give us our deposit back. It is stated in the contract, that in case of early termination, we would lose our deposit... but the thing is that he has been very mean to us in this 4 months and he also invaded our privacy.
I wonder if somebody knows if what he did is ilegal and can be a cause for contract breach (so we get our deposit back).
Can anyone give me an advise? I don't know what to do...
Thank you very much for your time!
cocorossello wrote:Don't read mad scientist, he is just a jerk.
Which field in engineering?? It depends, as a computer engineer, it will be fairly easy to find a job. I don't know about other specialties. And it's an "OK" place to live.
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