A crafty property investor came up with a “foolproof” scheme – buy a new public housing unit, rope in a dodgy estate agent and then blatantly ignore HDB rules to rent it all out. What could possibly go wrong?
Pretty much everything, as it happens, even though it does provide the rest of us with a fine example of penny wise pound foolish behaviour.
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