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I agree with this.

You do not have to worry if you stay in the house, sleep every night in the house. These owners were punished because they rented the whole house out without staying in it and before meeting MOP.

I'm fine to receive letters intended for my ex-tenant and ex-owner, as long as it's not Ah Long visiting my house. Risk of renting: Tenant can use their letters with our mailing address to change their pink/blue IC's address, and then borrow Ah Long with our address. Why am I scared of Ah Long? My parents' next door neighbour flat has been haunted by Ah Long since 8 years ago till today despite of changing owners 3 times. The first owner's grandson borrowed from Ah Long multiple times. I pity the subsequent owners.

Ah Long issue

After GE, both eyes of HDB are closed hahaha.

Housewife lost $300,000 in casino threaten to kill herself http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporesc...-081338701.html I pity the kids.

Now opposition can tell kiasi folks "Better buy opposition insurance if you don't want nuclear plant built at your doorstep".

This DR received good pay for saving babies! Compare to the pay of NS man, 'one is heaven, one is ground'. At next GE, we may get Pinoy MP liao haha.

PAP loves pulling people from MINDEF & NTUC, they are deemed to be more obedient. Employees from civil sector are drilled by management to be too black and white, and follow red tape. After some time, one will deteriorate in critical thinking skill after too many years in civil sector. During emergency cases, you see them crafting out long-winded procedures with boliao documentations, and noone dares to give approval and sign on them! By then, precious time is wasted and civilians suffer on the street.

I agree that Oppositions have limited funds to maintain their towns. Somemore, each opposition member must fork out >10K deposit for standing in the election. They also face risk of being invited to lim kopi by ISD. Irony is although PAP town councils have more funds than Opposition town councils, I observe that Potong Pasir and Hougang towns are cleaner than some other towns that are managed by PAP!

I may get a chance to vote! Yesterday I saw opposition party's brocedure entitled "Voting is secret" on my gate LOL. None of my MPs is walking around. Recently, I only see foreign workers electing new concrete frames for posters along the road! I think these foreigner workers deserve the 15K salary more than my MPs.

Yes, you can get any locksmith to replace the lock for you.

Yah it will be more affordable than a resale hdb. The studio apartment takes 3 years to build. Meanwhile, TS' parents can stay with them.

Congrats!

You are lucky to have such a sweet, understanding fiancee. Jiayou! I wish everything goes well for you too. We cannot control the events but we can definitely control our reactions to them. Honestly, my siblings and I do not pity ourselves. We are still much more fortunate than people who are suffering from terminal illnesses and victims from natural disasters. The 'intensive training by our dad' has gave my siblings and I certain amount of inner strength when facing difficult situations and difficult people. Yeah I still cry sometimes but I will be able to laugh after it

I see your point. Your parents may have no cpf to pay for the next hdb's instalments, and the same problem will return to your family. Then the only solution will be for you to buy a hdb, and let them stay with you. I'm going to face the same issue as you when hdb 'force sell' my parents' house probably next year. My dad purposely withdrew so much money from his OA account until no cpf money left to pay for my 2 younger sisters' uni school fees and pay for housing loan instalments. My dad hasn't been paying for household expenses for more than 10 years. My dad is a gambler addict, we all think he is forcing my mum to sell off hdb to get his hands on more money to feed his habit. Solutions for my case: 1) 2 sisters (still studying) + mum + brother (working now) will stay in my house. My hubby will not mind but my MIL is very traditional thinking, she will surely make big hooha about it. 2) My brother buys a hdb with my mum to stay. My brother's gf is still studying in uni. I doubt they will want to ROM so quickly. Problem is we don't know whether his future wife + future inlaws will mind about her staying with our mum. 3) My brother add his name to parents' hdb to use his cpf OA to pay for instalments. Same problem as 2) will result. My mum did not want to talk about this hdb issue when siblings and I approached her. She said that she only wants to discuss about it when hdb knocks on the door. I guess this is how my mum keeps her sanity throughout these two decades.

I am sorry to hear your parents' situation. I applaud your commitment to help your parents solve their problem. Many of the hdb owners, who have difficulty paying the housing loan instalments, sold off their current hdb and downgraded to a smaller hdb in cheaper town to pay off the snowballed arrears. This is the common solution adopted by hdb owners, who have difficulty paying the housing loan instalments. Does your financee get along with your family members? They will be staying together for years. If there are conflicts, you will be sandwiched in between. Do you have enough cash to pay for the next house's COV and renovation? Are you relying on your parents' sale proceedings to help you pay for your resale house? If yes, they may not have enough cash to pay for their 2nd house's COV and renovation. Note that your parents may not be able to get any loan from HDB or bank due to their age years later.

It's ok that we don't remember each and every MP names (There are total 87 MPs!) We just need to remember the correct spot to draw the cross on our voting slips

Yeah man, buy votes using Singaporean taxpayers' money and not his own money. Funny idea here http://blogs.straitstimes.com/2011/4/1/the...ers-grc-dilemma GRC = buying onions?

What happen after he offended the temple? I am curious to know. I also read TR often hehe.

Haha I know who... LS_ : Better, betterer, betterest! No opposition is coming to my GRC My vote is very itchy. See the way PM replied to a NUS student: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporesc...231901-526.html

High Five! Side-track, I saw you wrote [The MP famous quote "sacking Singaporean elderly workers and replacing them with foreigners in his constituency" ] at the other thread. Now father has dragged son to join in the million-dollar party leh, his son is one of 6 MPs for my GRC. Some opposition, please come to my GRC, I don't want walk-over!

PM Lee's son will be 28 years old at the next GE. Is TPL a 'lamb' to test test the public's reaction?

PAP is also commercialising canteens of primary schools and secondary schools by putting them out for tenders. Soon, each canteen stall owner will have to pay $4000 rent per month; 1 plate of mee will be selling at $4 to kids. In old system, each canteen stall owner only pays ~$20 rent per month directly to the school management. Therefore they are able to sell cheap cheap food to kids. Why don't they spare even 7 year old kids?

He has 6 months from the key collection date to sell his house. 6 months is definitely enough time for him to find another buyer. Well he hasn't signed anything in black and white with you. Good luck to your negotiation with him