I called the agent and the call went like this (rather dodgy line, so I didn't catch it all 100%)-OdinZA wrote:No, this was for a condo. In the old South Africa, we had a law called the "Group Areas Act" that restricted where you lived based on race...
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http://singapore.gumtree.sg/c-Apartment ... Z282899905
Yes, gotta agree to that .. many an indian has lost his deposit as the owner needed to chemical wash the kitchen or need to re-do the kitchen area fully ..sundaymorningstaple wrote:The reason so many advertisements are seemingly anti-Indian is actually due to the cooking habits of a lot of them (definitely not all - I can vouch for that).![]()
My flatmates and I picked up on this discrimination so now we [shamelessly] tell them things so we'd get a flat. We'd be only four adults during the viewing (no long term visitors tagging along!); oh we're all professional working 9-to-5 jobs with the occasional overtime...that sort of thing.ecureilx wrote:Sad to say, a lot of condo / apartment owners are afraid to rent to Indians, Filipinos, Chinese (from Mainland) etc. based on their preference ..
A flip of the classified for apartments, used to have a lot of "STRICTLY NO INDIANS, STRICTLY NO FILIPINOS, STRICTLY NO CHINESE" ..
Of late that has reduced ..
JR8, call the agent and ask why they don't want indian .. and you may get a lot of responses, like 'too many visitor', 'always cooking' .. etc. etc.
Same goes for Filipinos ..
You have to say the magic words "I DON'T COOK AT HOME", "NO KIDS" .. "ONLY ME AND MY WIFE" ... etc. ..
Unfortunately, preference is nothing that can be done about .. some landlord even quote past experience of certain races disappearing .. (ok, maybe one chinese tenant, so all china tenants are to be avoiided .. but, hey this is Singapore - so strereotyping is normal .. )
and it also depends upon the market - low demand, anything goes .. high demand 'I prefer only japanese tenant .. ' etc ..
Jaycee: the ratio applies to HDB purchase .. not for anything else
Unfortunately, a lot of Filipinos are NOT conscientious. Sad but true.ecureilx wrote:Likewise, when I was in Normanton park, my neighbours, filipinos, used to cook the stinky fish, till the other tenants in the block sort of pressured the landlord to not rent to filipinos .. and that was ten years ago![]()
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Oh no, aren't into black clothes and slasher moves issit?nakatago wrote: For what it's worth though, I'm not most Filipinos (different accent, different thought patterns, kinda anti-social) so when I talk, potential landlords already get their stereotypes shaken up.
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