pomwi wrote:I will be relocating to Singapore later this year with a wife and two young children, and would like to ask for recommendations to achieve a smooth arrival.
As (I assume) most new arrivals, our personal effects will ship on our date of departure from our origin country. This means we'll have a ~10 week delay until it arrives in Singapore.
We would like to understand the options for arriving to a fully furnished apartment, but transitioning to our own personal effects when they arrive.
We've seen several apartments advertised which are offered as "fully furnished" with the option to have them "partially" or "unfurnished" (presumably the landlord will add/remove furniture accordingly). We've also seen fully furnished apartments offered on a "flexible" lease.
The question is whether we are able to take an apartment as "fully furnished" initially, and negotiate with the landlord to remove his/her furniture when ours arrives (~2-3 months down the line)? Alternatively, we can take a fully furnished apartment on a short-term lease (e.g. 3 months) and move to an unfurnished apartment when our lease is up and stuff has arrived.
This is doubtful. As space in Singapore is a premium, most landlords do not have "storage" facilities to remove the furniture too. Therefore, normally you will have to store it yourself if you want to use your own furniture. Or find a unit that is partially furnished (this usually mean white goods only) or unfurnished.
We don't really want to spend the money on a Serviced Apartment, as all the ones we've seen have been prohibitively expensive. We also want to minimise the number of moves given the young family members. We're looking a condo apartments, not HDB.
This is going to be your only option, frankly, as most landlord are NOT going to sign a 2-3 month month lease. There are Serviced Apartments here for as little as 3300/mo looking at one of the posts on here yesterday.
Do any members have recommendations based on their "smooth arrival" experiences?
The smoothest arrival is one where the employer puts you up in a Serviced Apartment until such time as you locate your new quarters and your furniture arrives. Otherwise, you have to just make it as comfortable as you can under the circumstances.
We're coming from New Zealand. 10 weeks is the worst-case time we've been told from the relocation company. Personal experience suggests that this is pessimistic, as we had personal effects shipped to New Zealand from Europe and it took around 6 weeks.JayCee wrote:Just out of interest, where are you coming from as 10+ weeks sounds like a long time
I took a look through the "useful links" in your signature and found a couple of furniture leasing companies. One in particular (http://www.furnitureleasing.com.sg/) looks like they can provide a good set of basic furniture and whiteware for a couple of months at a reasonable price. If anyone has positive/negative experiences with them it'd be useful to hear.sundaymorningstaple wrote:pomwi wrote:I will be relocating to
This is doubtful. As space in Singapore is a premium, most landlords do not have "storage" facilities to remove the furniture too. Therefore, normally you will have to store it yourself if you want to use your own furniture. Or find a unit that is partially furnished (this usually mean white goods only) or unfurnished.
I don't suppose anyone can recommend a short-term furniture leasing company that they have used or have heard recommended?arw wrote:You could take an unfurnished apartment and rent furniture short term before your's arrives.
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