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Hi, for the window wise, there will be an inspection by the HDB officers and they will check and will advice the seller accordingly.

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Aaron
 9730 8455 
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Good afternoon,

I'm surprised that your agent did not flag out the issue on the leaking ceiling issue. In the event that the neighboring unit is not willing to corporate on the repair and you are not willing to take over the unit, there might be a huge delay on the completion. As for the windows issue, the HDB will require the owner to fulfill the HDB requirement before completion.

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Mike Lim
 96929209 
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Hi,

this is real unfortunate to face such situation.
3 issues:
(1) Windows: HDB officer will advise the seller accordingly if it possess safety issue.
(2) Doors: You will have to get your own contractor to fix it.
(3) Ceiling leaking: This is the far most difficult. Since the transaction is still on-going. It is best to approach the seller to speak to the neighbour above together to fix the leaking. Seller will have to send an email to HDB branch to request for inspection and advise the next step. The worst is to redo the toilet above, and HDB can help to subsidize the overall cost; $300 each for seller and the neighbour. The whole redo process only takes 3 days.

So my suggestion is to get your agent to speak to the seller to fix this before taking over the unit.

Hope the above advice help.

Best regards
Ling CK Read More