Everitt family may be evicted

[makapaaa]

Feb 25, 2010

Everitt family may be evicted

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<!--background story, collapse if none-->Years of feuding

1993: The Everitt Road dispute reportedly started over parking space, and escalated into a tit-for-tat war involving chains, video cameras and allegations of abuse on both sides.

2002: The quarrel drew media notice when seven families sought help from MP Chan Soo Sen.
Mediation efforts failed to resolve the conflict. The escalating quarrels drew wide interest, with the street attracting curious observers from outside the neighbourhood.
A slew of police reports and court complaints followed.

2004: In July, Mr Chan Cheng Khoon was fined $4,000 for insulting Madam Teo Suan Moy and another neighbour, Ms Bency Chua.

2005: In November, Mr Chan was again fined for insulting another neighbour.

2006: In February, Mr Chan was fined the maximum $2,000 for harassing Mr Loh Beng Lee, who lived diagonally across from his house.
His daughter, Dr Chan Soo Yin, 47, was fined $2,000 in January for insulting a neighbour.

2009: Dr Chan said she filed 25 magistrates' complaints against various neighbours between 2005 and 2006 - one leading to a $500 fine being imposed on Madam Tan Bee Hua, which was set aside in August.
She added the others were either resolved, settled or dismissed.


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The Chans allegedly missed several of their monthly payments on a loan from DBS bank, which is seeking a High Court order to possess the property. One option is for the Chans to sell the house on their own and settle their debt. -- ST PHOTO: CAROLINE CHIA

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A FAMILY whose long-running spat with their Everitt Road neighbours led to several widely publicised stand-offs in court is now facing a suit of a different kind.
A bank wants to turn them out of their home for allegedly missing payments on a loan and is seeking a High Court order to possess the property.
The family, who has lived there for more than 15 years, is made up of retiree Chan Cheng Khoon, 74, his wife Chua Gek Eng, 71, and their daughter, Dr Chan Soo Yin, 47.
Read the full exclusive in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

[Watchman]

Related Stories !

Everitt Rd resident wins case
Aug 14, 2009

By K C Vijayan

Madam Tan Bee Hua was given a conditional discharge after her lawyer Ram Goswami argued the offence was minor, she was provoked and was unlikely to re-offend. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

A HIGH Court judge set aside a $500 fine slapped on a warring Everitt Road neighbour on condition she keeps a clean record for the next 12 months.

Madam Tan Bee Hua, 51, was given a conditional discharge after her lawyer Ram Goswami argued the offence was minor, she was provoked and was unlikely to re-offend.

Lawyers said a conditional discharge is a rare option exercised by the courts.

Madam Tan had been fined for hurling vulgarities at Madam Chan Soo Yin in Everitt Road in August 2003 at about 11 pm.

Madam Chan cross-appealed and argued in person on Friday for a heavier deterrent fine again Madam Tan but the move was thrown out by Justice Choo Han Teck.

Madam Tan, who has moved out of the area and now lives in Balestier Road area, said the judgement brought her ' peace of mind' and she thanked her lawyer Ran Goswami.

Madam Chan said she was happy with the outcome in putting an end to the spat.

 

[Glaringly]

Will the customer of DBS have to face video cameras and chains locking up the entrances when they visit DBS bank from now on?

 

[Watchman]

http://www.singaporelawwatch.sg/remweb/legal/ln2/rss/legalnews/66223.html?utm_source=rss%20subscription&utm_medium=rss

 

[Devil Within]

Feb 25, 2010

Everitt family may be evicted

A FAMILY whose long-running spat with their Everitt Road neighbours led to several widely publicised stand-offs in court is now facing a suit of a different kind.
A bank wants to turn them out of their home for allegedly missing payments on a loan and is seeking a High Court order to possess the property.
The family, who has lived there for more than 15 years, is made up of retiree Chan Cheng Khoon, 74, his wife Chua Gek Eng, 71, and their daughter, Dr Chan Soo Yin, 47.

If the Chan family were evicted and forced to move elsewhere, it would be happy ending for the old neighbours on Everitt Road, but hell just started for the Chan's new neighbours wherever they move to.

 

[Watchman]

I can't believe this is what people do with time in their hands .

 

[chansy]

By the way have you noticed that the bitchy comments about the Chans come only from the Gans, Chuas and Lohs...that's 3 houses on a stretch of road that has 6 times more houses than that. The neigbourhood is definitely improving. The Chan-bashing gang has been drastically reduced in numbers.....with no fresh recruitment.

The price of properties along this stretch of road is not low.....please don't show your ignorance in your comments. Properties are going for more than $870 psf which is more than for landed properties in almost all areas except for Bukit Timah and Holland Road.

The loan of $200k on a more than $1.5 mil property is indeed small. If the Chans sell their house they can buy another landed property in cash.....now how many people you know can do that!

 

[xebay11]

Or they could rent it out / rooms to service loan.

 

[xebay11]

Maybe it is a ploy to drum up publicity, I am sure that the old goat Chan cannot climb the stairs already, they need to sell.

 

[Jabba]

They should have been ordered to stay in bedok and jurong so their paths will not cross again...

 

[radon39]

One less tourist attraction for sinkies then

 

[balajii]

By the way have you noticed that the bitchy comments about the Chans come only from the Gans, Chuas and Lohs...that's 3 houses on a stretch of road that has 6 times more houses than that. The neigbourhood is definitely improving. The Chan-bashing gang has been drastically reduced in numbers.....with no fresh recruitment.



The loan of $200k on a more than $1.5 mil property is indeed small. If the Chans sell their house they can buy another landed property in cash.....now how many people you know can do that!

hi newbie,

u ah chan's relative huh.. so emo.

 

[captainxerox]

all sg, except everitt rd residents, should be frightened if they are evicted. they can become our new neighbour next.

 

[chansy]

If I'm the Chan's relative then by your logic you must be a Chua, Loh or Gan relative or one of them......so defensive and so vitriolic (is this too difficult a word for your limited vocabulary???) towards the Chans. Do you stay in Everitt Road?

Look at what article starts off this thread....house may be lost.The newspapers already printed that they get to keep the house......what they do with it is nobody's business.....renting out the house is a good idea. Afterall, imagine without the Chans in Everitt Rd there would be nothing to read about in the newspapers and there would be nothing to bitch about by supporters of the Chans' bitcy, petty neigbours who are now the minority on that stretch of road.

 

[kingrant]

If I were one of the other house owners, I surely would not want to get involved by adding fuel to fire. Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you. But that doesnt mean that they are not displeased. Probably suffering quietly and wishing they'll go away.

Btw, $1.5 million nowadays can never buy you a landed house - by that, I mean a free standing bungalow type on freehold land in S'pore. If you know of one, pls let me know.

By the way have you noticed that the bitchy comments about the Chans come only from the Gans, Chuas and Lohs...that's 3 houses on a stretch of road that has 6 times more houses than that. The neigbourhood is definitely improving. The Chan-bashing gang has been drastically reduced in numbers.....with no fresh recruitment.

The price of properties along this stretch of road is not low.....please don't show your ignorance in your comments. Properties are going for more than $870 psf which is more than for landed properties in almost all areas except for Bukit Timah and Holland Road.

The loan of $200k on a more than $1.5 mil property is indeed small. If the Chans sell their house they can buy another landed property in cash.....now how many people you know can do that!

 

[chansy]

Well Kingrat your definition of landed is way off base. Landed houses can be terrace, semi-detached, bungalows, townhouses or cluster houses. Don't take my word for it just check out the classified ads or go to the ERA website and you can see the asking price of landed properties. My friend just bought a landed corner terrace house in Tembeling Road which is parallel to Everitt Road for $1.55 mil.

Since you are "assuming" the remaining houses are displeased with the Chans but are keeping mum, it could also probably be that they really have nothing bad to say about the Chans. Why gripe and bitch when there is nothing to gripe and bitch about.

 

[myfoot123]

Possible of them relocating near to oxley or namely?

 

[sense]

If I'm the Chan's relative then by your logic you must be a Chua, Loh or Gan relative or one of them......so defensive and so vitriolic (is this too difficult a word for your limited vocabulary???) towards the Chans. Do you stay in Everitt Road?

Look at what article starts off this thread....house may be lost.The newspapers already printed that they get to keep the house......what they do with it is nobody's business.....renting out the house is a good idea. Afterall, imagine without the Chans in Everitt Rd there would be nothing to read about in the newspapers and there would be nothing to bitch about by supporters of the Chans' bitcy, petty neigbours who are now the minority on that stretch of road.

Soo Yin, you are a disgrace to MOE, your former junior college and whichever private school you might still be teaching.

Missing Peace: Episode 8
The dispute began in 1993 but only bubbled to public attention in 2002 - almost ten years later. At the centre of the dispute is the Chan family, accused of making life difficult for their six neighbours. The disputes were never fully settled. But things died down in 2010 when the Chan moved out but things continued online. So is it really over? We talk to some of the parties involved, including the former mediator ex-MP Chan Soo Sen.

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[sense]

Happily Everitt After

A new family has moved into the Chans' house. Neighbours are happy the drama's over. -TNP

Thu, Dec 02, 2010
The New Paper

By Desmond Ng

HE HAD no idea that the house he was thinking of buying had such a colourful and, some might say, notorious past.

And even after he found out, its history did not matter as much to him as the attractive price which he eventually paid for it.

To Mr Daniel Tong, his purchase of the Everitt Road house was a purely financial decision.

The 37-year-old restaurateur paid $1.65 million for the three-storey freehold terrace house in May. The amount is some $150,000 below valuation.

Mr Tong was aware of the feuds among the neighbours on Everitt Road, which had been making headlines since 2003 with suits and counter-suits.

But what he didn't count on was that he would end up buying the house of Mr Chan Cheng Khoon, one of those involved.

He said that when he first viewed the place in April, it didn't register that the sellers - the retired Mr Chan and his wife, both in their 70s - were major players in the long-running saga.

"I thought they looked familiar. They were polite and showed me around the house, which was in its original condition," said Mr Tong.

It was only after he stepped out of the house that the sellers' agent told him about them.

"I was surprised, and it then dawned on me who they were. I wasn't particularly disturbed about it. I am buying a house, I am not renting a room from them. And I don't know them personally," he added.

Mr Tong said he and his wife made a first offer of $1.48m for the 1,935 sq ft home and it was rejected. The sellers' asking price was $1.8m. The deal was eventually sealed at $1.65m.

The couple have two children, a four-year-old daughter and a 21-month-old son.

Mr Tong said of the Chan family: "They're okay people. They're selling their place. It's not in their interest to give me attitude. They were quite friendly."

Even Mr Tong's mother - Madam Kuo Wen Peng, 63, who lives in Batu Pahat, Johor - had heard of the Chan family from across the Causeway.

Madam Kuo said: "I was surprised when he (Mr Tong) showed me the house and told me who the owners were.

"But they (the Chans) have got nothing to do with us. I don't care about their past. We're just buying their house."

The new owners took possession of the house in August and spent more than $100,000 on renovations.

First to go were the three flood lights and two closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in the porch area.

Said Mr Tong: "I told my contractors to remove those items first."

In 2003, the Chans had turned on the spotlights late into the night to annoy their neighbours, The Straits Times reported at the time.

The neighbours living opposite then retaliated by putting up mirrors and steel sheets to reflect the light at the Chans.

Neighbours welcome them

Mr Tong said that when he started renovating his house, the neighbours also removed the mirrors and steel sheets.

The Chans moved to a rented townhouse at JC Ville at Joo Chiat Place in July.

When Mr Tong moved into the Everitt Road house two months ago, the neighbours popped in and warmly welcomed him.

"The neighbours here are very nice. Almost every family along the street came by to say hello.

"One said that it's nice to have somebody new in the neighbourhood. No one came out to say that it's good the Chans moved away," he said.

The Tongs moved there to be near to Tao Nan School and CHIJ (Katong) Primary School for their kids in the future.

And Mr Tong doesn't regret buying into this infamous street.

"I don't care about the past. We start on a clean slate here. And the neighbours here are very sweet. It's a nice, quiet neighbourhood."

Some of the neighbours The New Paper spoke to seemed happy to put the saga behind them.

Mr Lee C W, 58, an engineer, said: "I see more visitors (friends and relatives of residents there) these days.The mood in this estate seems lighter now."

Another resident, who wanted to be known only as Mr Tan, said in Mandarin: "It's all in the past now. We need to move on...

"Hopefully, the reputation of this estate will improve from now on."

 

[eErotica69]

More importantly, where are the Chans living now?