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Financial life lessons: How to cope as a tenant in a red-hot rental market

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Be prepared for tough negotiations, accept no verbal promises and read your rental agreement thoroughly, the writer advises.

Be prepared for tough negotiations, accept no verbal promises and read your rental agreement thoroughly, advises the writer.

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SINGAPORE – It was a harrowing ordeal. That was the most civilised sentence I could come up with when a colleague asked about my house-hunting experience earlier in 2023.

Because that statement does not tell you what the worst part of the ordeal was.

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