Room for rent or a misunderstanding? Another New Citizen stunt?

[BuiKia]

Rent a room for $60 a night for two people in an HDB flat in Singapore, read the advertisement.

When contacted, the owner of the HDB flat in Geylang denied having sublet any of her rooms to tourists, even though she had placed the advertisement looking for tenants in an inflight magazine last October.

She told The New Paper that it was a misunderstanding, and that the human traffic in and out of her flat last year was actually her family members from Indonesia

An HDB spokesman said that HDB flats and bedrooms cannot be let out to tourists or for short-term stays and that they are investigating the particular unit advertised in the magazine.

Read the full report in The New Paper on Wednesday (May 2).

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

$60 per night. Assuming out of 30 days, only 10 days are taken up by tourists..

$60 x 10 = $600.

Why not just directly rent out long-term to a regular tenant?

 

[geylangchickenloyangduck]

$60 per night. Assuming out of 30 days, only 10 days are taken up by tourists..

$60 x 10 = $600.

Why not just directly rent out long-term to a regular tenant?

nah beh...i think still haven't finish min occupancy period - therefore cannot "officially" rent...think the FT trying to circumvent the law.

 

[Jlokta]

$60 per night. Assuming out of 30 days, only 10 days are taken up by tourists..

$60 x 10 = $600.

Why not just directly rent out long-term to a regular tenant?

Transit mah, how to rent long term when you only need a place to bonk?

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

nah beh...i think still haven't finish min occupancy period - therefore cannot "officially" rent...think the FT trying to circumvent the law.

Renting out for transit is same leh. Also breaking the law. Furthermore, the number of strange new faces entering and leaving is more likely to arouse suspicions too.

Foreign trash really stupid.

 

[Cestbon]

nah beh...i think still haven't finish min occupancy period - therefore cannot "officially" rent...think the FT trying to circumvent the law.

U wrong. Cannot rent whole unit but can rent room out.

 

[no_faith]

i believe many are doing it but this farker pichar everyone lobang.

 

[Cestbon]

i believe many are doing it but this farker pichar everyone lobang.

Agree! Why KPKB.