A netizen, @potatosalad-_-, shared how his landlord is wanting to increase the rent for every Saturday and Sunday that the tenant stays home, by $30.
Here is what he said
landlord wants to increase my rent 1 month after I just moved in if I stay home during the weekends
It’s not legal, the audacity is ridiculous. But I have to negotiate with her instead of confronting her about the law as I do not want to burn bridges and she might try different ways to make my life here difficult.
editing an update to this comment for visibility: THANK YOU SO MUCH everyone for the tons of concern and advice.
to answer some faqs: I’m from Singapore, I have a year long lease/contract, I’m renting a room and the landlord stays in the same house.
She is not legally allowed to raise my rent and I’ve told her that several times but she just keeps pestering me non-stop. I can ignore her text messages but she started knocking on my door today to “inspect” my room and what I do in my room – which landlords are allowed to do in Singapore.
The law does not state how many times she’s allowed to “inspect” my room a day so for all I know she could keep harassing me and that’s what I’m stressed over.
I don’t have the money to engage a lawyer or sue her – lawyer fees would likely be more than my $30 increase in rent. Also for all those who have been constantly calling me a troll/karma farming – you have no idea how much I wish I’m trolling and this isn’t my reality.
Please stop thinking I’m trolling just because I’m not online the whole day. I came back to an overwhelming 700 comments and couldn’t reply to all of them but did my best to reply to as many.
p.s. in my original comment I was talking about how I didn’t want to confront/burn bridges but when she “inspected” my room I got so mad and just confronted her lol but yeah she refuses to budge and just kept poking around my things and was like “what’s this delivery package” / “what did you buy” / “what are you doing in your room”