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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - yes yes yes MORE FT GOOD GOOD !!</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>madmansg <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>Dec-10 9:22 pm </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 4) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>42113.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>Want to share a room with seven others?
By Bryna Sim & Lediati Tan
YOU have probably seen them while waiting for a bus outside an MRT station.
HDB bed space for rent
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Palm-sized, handwritten fliers - with mobile phone numbers on detachable strips at the bottom - stuck onto notice boards, and offering HDB rooms for rent.
But take a closer look at some of them and you may notice that instead of rooms, bed spaces are being offered for rent.
The New Paper checked out the notice boards at more than 10 bus stops outside MRT stations islandwide. We found many fliers, usually printed in Chinese, advertising bed spaces in HDB flats.
In recent years, there have been media reports of condominium apartments being partitioned to create extra space to hold beds, so they can be rented out to foreign workers or even tourists.
But bed spaces for rent in HDB flats is a new phenomenon. On some fliers, the advertisers are more discreet - they offer "shared rooms" for rent.
Some Chinese nationals explained the terms to The New Paper: A bed space usually refers to either the top or bottom bunk of a bunk bed.
A shared room means four to eight people crammed into a room.
One flier offered up to "seven or eight bed spaces" for rent. We found out later that it was a three-room flat. But isn't the landlord flouting HDB rules?
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By Bryna Sim & Lediati Tan
YOU have probably seen them while waiting for a bus outside an MRT station.
HDB bed space for rent
Click on thumbnail to view
Palm-sized, handwritten fliers - with mobile phone numbers on detachable strips at the bottom - stuck onto notice boards, and offering HDB rooms for rent.
But take a closer look at some of them and you may notice that instead of rooms, bed spaces are being offered for rent.
The New Paper checked out the notice boards at more than 10 bus stops outside MRT stations islandwide. We found many fliers, usually printed in Chinese, advertising bed spaces in HDB flats.
In recent years, there have been media reports of condominium apartments being partitioned to create extra space to hold beds, so they can be rented out to foreign workers or even tourists.
But bed spaces for rent in HDB flats is a new phenomenon. On some fliers, the advertisers are more discreet - they offer "shared rooms" for rent.
Some Chinese nationals explained the terms to The New Paper: A bed space usually refers to either the top or bottom bunk of a bunk bed.
A shared room means four to eight people crammed into a room.
One flier offered up to "seven or eight bed spaces" for rent. We found out later that it was a three-room flat. But isn't the landlord flouting HDB rules?
>> Next
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