Finally, Finished Move-Out Today

After struggling to check off a litany of tiresome tasks, I received my deposit of $8400 from the agency tonight. Finally, my move-out process that lasted over 2 weeks was officially finished.

The main task is to polish the floors for three rooms, the living room, the bedroom, and a small room off the bedroom.

We spent over $1000 on this project. For the bedroom, we reached out to the worker directly and negotiated a better deal, otherwise the total cost would be even higher.

The second main project was the dry-cleaning of curtain and room cleaning. We involved an individual worker to finish it at the beginning, and it cost us $260.

Unluckily, we were informed that the cleaning should be delivered by a professional cleaning service provider that can issue us with an official invoice according to the rental contract, despite the fact that the original cleaning was perfect. We spent another $460 to engage a professional cleaning provider just for a compliant invoice, and we didn’t even ask them to clean again.

Another crucial part of the move-out process was repainting the walls. It totally cost us $600 to have all the walls in this house repainted.

Actually, when comparing to other painting providers’ quotes, this was really a better deal for us although $600 was still quite a high price.

As for the rest tiresome repairs and cleaning, we spent around $500 to get them done, including fixing the cabinet, replacing lock on the wardrobe, etc.

Overall, the move-out in Singapore is a complex project for everyone living in a rental house, and thankfully, we’ve finished all of it.