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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, 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.


