Singapore—A woman who had rented a room in Hougang posted a warning on Facebook about her landlord, who just one day after she moved in, demanded that she leave and accused her of bringing drugs to his residence.
Ms 蔡怡 (Chai Yi), a Malaysian from Ipoh, posted three videos on her Facebook page on Jan 27 of exchanges she had with her landlord.
She claimed that she had paid $800 to move into a room at 620 Hougang, along with her boyfriend.
Although they paid on Jan 18, they moved in only a week later, on the 25th, reports The New Paper.
However, while she was at work the next day, the landlord called them, demanding that they vacate the room and threatening to throw their belongings away if they refused to comply.
Ms 蔡怡 said she did not understand why the landlord behaved this way.
On Facebook post, she said, “I came home and found my belongings outside,” adding that the landlord, an older man, accused them of possessing drugs.
She posted three videos in all. The first one, where she and the landlord are arguing, can be viewed here.
She confronts the landlord for having gone through their things, but he said he’s “allowed” to do so because he would be implicated if they had drugs among their possessions.
In the second video, the woman can be heard crying.
She and her boyfriend went on to call the police to report the man. She made a video of the man’s interaction with the police, which can be seen here.
The woman claimed, however, that the landlord pretended he could not understand what was said, and so the police could not do anything.
The police tell the man, however, that he cannot just make accusations against anyone if he has no proof.
She asked readers to share the video so that others would not be fooled by the old man in the way that she and her boyfriend were.
The woman also said that the landlord had denied them their rent money after demanding they move out, but added a comment to her post that she was able to get back $700 from the landlord.
Her post has been widely shared and has received more than 10,000 comments
One netizen pointed out the importance of getting a tenancy agreement, which would have protected her from the landlord.
Many comments labelled him a bully and a scammer, adding that he should be ashamed of himself.
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