I would appreciate any advice anyone can give me here. My husband and I bought a resale flat, application was sent in June and after technical inspection, there were some unauthorised works which HDB Branch office asked the seller to rectify by the 20th of July 2007. Of course, their agent did not inform us about this and wrote an appeal letter to HDB Branch office asking them to consider asking the buyer to undertake. They only told us about this letter at the 1st appointment which is yesterday, 16 August. Also, the HDB Branch office says by right the 1st appt should not have been carried out because the house is not in proper condition to be sold. In any case, now the seller is pushing us into a corner, giving us no time to decide whether to undertake the rectification. If we do it, the resale application will not be delayed and we will get our flat in time. If the seller does it, they will probably take a long time as they have not found a replacement flat and are in no hurry to move. Also, HDB Branch office says that there is no deadline for the seller to rectify the unauthorised works. Basically, if they do not rectify it, they will hold back the resale application and this will drag forever. It seems the only way to get them to do it quickly is to take legal action, which also seems to have nothing to work on as there is no black and white stating the seller has to vacate by a certain time, as the resale application has not even gone through. We were wondering if we could negotiate with the seller to reimburse some costs for our undertaking. The following are the unauthorised items: 1) Demolish or apply for a permit for the construction of feature wall at bomb shelter 2) Demolish raised platform at master bedroom (too high, window dangerous) 3) Apply for test report by Power Supply (wall was hacked and concealed wiring moved to adjacent wall but no tests were done to see if its ok) 4) Reinstate the ventilation opening of bomb shelter. Number 4 is fairly easy to handle as the seller had only covered up the opening with plywood. I do not know much about no. 1 and 3 and would like to find out the costs for those. As for no.2, the seller will not hack away the platform but apply to do a window grille instead. From my understanding, the permit to do a window grille is more expensive. I greatly appreciate anyone's advice here, and asap as everyday i wait delays our moving into the flat! Thanks so very very very much!