snowflake

Umm, still waiting for my letter. I am just wondering how the purchase of the recess area will make any difference to the gas meter than beofre purchase. So did they allow the purchase now?

yup, you're right. Just spoke to the branch office and he doesn't know when this review will be completed. I've wrote in to HDB and hopefully they can give me an idea of when this will be done. This will have severe implictions to my reno plans as well as the timing to start. what a bummer.

Anyone has experiences with Merane?

Ya, I used them when I refinanced my home loan a couple of months back and they say they don't do recess area. Do you know of any other law firms who do this?

Hi knightskid, Can you pass me the contacts of your law firm? Thanks!

I have the intention to buy the recess area outside my apartment but mine is quite a complicated case that I need advice from someone out there. I am currently based overseas and my whole unit is rented out. I will be returning in Oct and would like to renovate my whole unit including the to be purchased recess area. I intend to start renovation immediately upon my return and have started looking for ID firms. The big concern I have is the time it takes to buy the recess area and being overseas make things more complicated. I will be returning to S'pore in April for a short 2 weeks to meet the ID companies and I am also looking at what I can do to purchase the recess area so that I can get it in time to renovate immediately when I return. Questions: 1. If I do online application now, roughly how long will I receive the HDB letter informing me about the procedures that I need to do? 2. I understand that I need to arrange the meter, lights to be shifted from the corridor. Do I get my contractor to do it or HDB? If HDB, which department is in -charge and how long will they take to complete the shifting taking into account all the ding dongings? 3. Can I just get the moving of the meter done first without renovating the recess area until I return in Oct (that is assuming the purchase can be completed before that) 3. I am currently holding a bank loan, so how long will the whole process take including getting the lawyer, bank and all other necessary admin things I need to do? 4. I'm just wondering if I can start any action now so that I can sign any legal doc when I am in S'pore in April? 5. Any other advice please? Much appreciated