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My lease is till end Sept 2021 but my landlord is breaching the lease by wanting to evict me because he sold the house halfway through the tenancy. There is no early exit clause for it and it is also stated in the TA that if the unit is sold, it will be sold subject to the tenancy. He gets very aggressive when I try to make any negotiations and even resorted to scolding me or scaring me. He insist that there will be no negotiation and that I have no rights. He also makes me pay for every single thing and say that he will be deducting from my security deposit for all the cleaning fees that is needed to handover the unit to the new buyer. He has also removed my access to the aircon (it’s controlled with phone app) when I was busy and didn’t respond to his message to chase me for the rent (I paid on the same day he asked me to pay but I was just caught up in the day and only had time at night). He also did not want me to pay stamp duties for the Tenancy Agreement and denies me of his NRIC number (he did not include it in the TA). If I were to present my case to Small Claims, am I able to claim full rental fees for the notice period and my security deposit?
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If you do not have his IC number, how do you know he is the rightful owner of the apartment in the first place?

Instead of having the landlord meet the contractual obligations, if the person you are dealing with is not the actual landlord, you may also get into some trouble should the actual landlord indicate that you are trespassing into a private property.

Sorry if the above may scare you, but in a rental transaction, there is due diligence to be done in order to safeguard your own interest. If you are unaware of how to go about it, you should have engaged an agent to help run through all these due diligence before signing on any agreement, if you have not done so (which I believe you have not since there is no ID number in the tenancy agreement). If you have done so, you should get the agent to come in to advise the situation.

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