This is why you don't tell your agent your actual budget, but $500-1000 less.hg wrote:...and whatever our agent shows up is a) either still out of our budget despite agent's promises that the owner will come down (which he doesn't later) or b) is gone by the time we make our minds up.
On a forum that has "singaporeexpats" in its title, does one need to "show" that they are here on expat package? What kind of a friggin joke is that !!! I am sorry but this forum is becoming more acerbic by the day....sundaymorningstaple wrote:Yeah, but somebody might overhear them and then word would get around that they got a bad deal and they would lose face on the cocktail circuit. Can't have that can we! Also, they couldn't get on the board here and show all that they are on an "Expat" package if they did it that way!
yes he is trying to cheat you. there are cheaper places available, look at the adds on this site there are a lot on upper east coast for 2 - 2.5kTammy138 wrote:Hi everyone. I was hoping you could give me some advice. I just moved here and has got an agent to find me apartments. My budget is max $3000 for a part furnished 2 bed as i have furnishing being shipped here and will buy locally too. however he is saying $3000 is too low and needs to increase. I can't help not think he is trying to cheat me as there is a recession here and everyone tells me the rents here are lowering.
i had enquired on either the central area or east coast. i was hoping with a $3000 (which is already way too expensive for me) can be negotiated with the landlord but it seems i wont even find a place.
Is this right? i feel so disheartened.
Point taken....you are a MOD here and so must be rightsundaymorningstaple wrote:hg,
Probably less than 40% of the expats on this forum are "Expats" in the sense of having full "Expat" packages. Most are expats because they are working here and I daresay, with the exception of a few, the majority have small or no allowances at all.
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Are you the original poster? They were asking about changing their agent, hence my advice to quote a lower budget than you're actually willing to pay.hg wrote:Anyway, in my case the agent is company's and so there no way of telling her 500$ off our budget...
Relak lah! Don't take everything people write here so seriously, it's not like the people who write it dowish people know all the facts before jumping in with pre-conceived notions. Getting a house right now at the top of my mind and talks of any social superiority just annoy the hell out of me
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