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  • After 5-Year Dispute, Buyer Gets To Move Into Flat As Seller Goes To Jail

    After 5-Year Dispute, Buyer Gets To Move Into Flat As Seller Goes To Jail

    After five years, Madam Herni Fadhillah Saad can now look forward to moving into her own home with her two children.

    But only after the Supreme Court yesterday sentenced the former owners to be jailed for contempt of court until further notice.

    Madam Herni’s lawyer had applied to the court to have the couple jailed so that he could arrange for the three-room flat to be vacated and allow his client to move in.

    The flat in Bedok South Road had been an issue of contention since 2010 when Madam Herni agreed to buy it from Mr Lim Teck Choon and his wife Tan Poh Lee.

    But a dispute over the transaction arose, sending both parties to court.

    Even after the Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that the sale of the flat to Madam Herni had to be completed within three months, the couple refused to comply.

    Last November, the court ordered them to vacate the flat by December. Again, they refused despite attempts by court bailiffs to evict them.

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • Chunks Of Concrete Falling From Ceiling Of HDB Flat

    Chunks Of Concrete Falling From Ceiling Of HDB Flat

    Dear TRS,

    I was almost killed or seriously injured by the poor quality of my HDB flat.

    I was hanging up washing yesterday when suddenly huge slabs of concrete spalled from the ceiling and fell down.

    One of the larger pieces nearly hit my head!

    Fortunately, I actually had my washing poles still up so the biggest slabs did not fall on me but I simply cannot accept that this is “wear and tear” as my HDB flat is still quite new and nobody touches the ceiling.

    Even if it were wear and tear, I could understand it if it was something like the paint peeling but whole slabs of concrete is totally unacceptable.

    In total the weight of the concrete pieces is well over 15kg!

    What kind of quality if HDB making these days?

    We Singaporeans have little choice but to buy HDB as I can’t afford private and yet our own homes are a safety hazard.

    I notified HDB of the issue but they are yet to get back to me.

    I wanted to share this with TRS to see if anyone else had this problem before? What can we do? Will HDB pay for it to be fixed or do I also need to fork out extra money just to fix the poor quality flats that they give us?

     

    Source: www.therealsingapore.com