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Dear all, We engaged the services of a design house in Woodlands area for our house renovation services and are not just disappointed, but totally upset with this company. We engaged them as the "designer" who told us that they will be able to complete our house' reno within 3 weeks. Our reno started in 16 June 2008, now already Lunar 7th mth... and they have not completed all. And worse hor... the contractor has no sense of design at all and their mark up is super high... though he accompanied us to choose tiles and toilet accessories, it was those toiletries shop personnel and the tiling shop personnel who gave ideas.. really no idea why we engaged him for in the first place. Whatever designs he gave us, were either rough sketches or weakly creative designs... very jia luc... and always MIA.... only call and appear when want to collect $$. We find their quotes ex, so we found some other alternatives direct sources and save a few K. So i think they were not very happy with that. The main con did not do a good job in organising the job. He assigned the dusty works like woodwork, doors, solid surface etc etc all very slowly and all week after week. Imagine that EVERYTIME they come, we have to clean up the ENTIRE house again!!! We dun mind they marking up, as we understand that as Main cons, they have to earn their keep too. But with their standard of work and time delay (we have to take time off work to wait for they whole days and keep chasing them), it's totally NOT WORTH IT!!!

Hi, Thanks Finally the agent spoke to the owner and they have agreed to pay the moving charges, but they requested us to wait indefinitely for the appeal. This we will not agree... so again.. I have to draft another letter to the owner saying that we will only wait until end of this mth. Does anyone here knows if this appeal again is rejected... what can the seller sue for? Can we sue both the agent and the owner? Actually we have checked with our lawyers and they mentioned by common law, we can claim the diff of another similar unit. Has anyone met with such probs before? Will appreciate any advice!

My hb and I were looking ard for a resale flat. We responded to an ad in classifieds and went to see the flat. We signed the option immediately as we liked the place and that the agent mentioned that we can move in immediately as the owner has vacated the flat. 14 days later, we exercised the option; waiting for the 1st appt. A week b4 the 1st appt, our nightmare started. The agent called to say that The Seller is unable to sell the flat as they did not fulfil the MOP regulation. So we gave them time to appeal until the 1st appt. During the 1st appt, the case was still under appeal but the officer said it's likely to be approved and that the most we have to wait is 3 more days. So we waited, then the news came that the appeal is rejected ann so my hubby wants to cancel the resale transaction. But to our shock and dismay, the Agent said that not only we would not be able to get the deposits refunded to us, we will be LIABLE legally and we would be "in trouble"!!!! So from then onwards, my hb and I started to be on guard and liased with HDB directly... It's only then that we realised that upon the sellers not fulfulling the MOP, the contract is considered Null and Void. So how can we as the buyers be responsible? Furthermore, we gave a call to the agent's MGR, the MGR was worse... he said the agent simply took in what the onwer said... and that it's not the agent's fault NOT to check that the MOP is still active; and the MGR still asked us... "WHAT U WANT?!?! aiyoh.... Since then, we decided to have all correspondences in black and white. BUT everytime we asked for something, like re-imbursement of mover charges etc etc... the agent would ask US to draft. So we drafted the agreement and he would take abt 3-4 days and just say THE SEller reject and ask US to DO IT AGAIN! HELLO!? who's are the ones supposed to do the work here? Why are WE paying the agent fees for!? Really Irresponsible... Luckily we are aware of the HDB regulations and have lawyers at our disposal! Imagine those many out there who are cheated by this kind of inexperienced agents!!! My hb and I are so fed up with this matter... sure will sue them and bang them hard!!!

i stay at drive 16. but moving soon to bukit panjang... i really enjoyed staying in woodlands... reason i moved was cos of my dear son. need to move near my mom.

Hi, We're looking to moving to Bt Panjang estate. Heard from some frens tat certain blocks have termites prob. Anyone knowS and care to share? Thanks

Hi all, I'm looking to move to Bukit Panjang. Heard from some of my frens that certain blocks there has termite problems and that the HDB cant solve. Anyone staying/ stayed there? Know which Blocks affected?