Where to complain

[p_jas]

Hi,

Try your luck to raise your concern to Seng Kang Branch Town Council.

Be mentally prepared if you gets a lousy staff who visit your neighbour about your complaint.

Just to share with you, I do have a neighbour seem to be doing some handy work at home.
Most of the time, dragging & knocking can be heard.

We went & feedback this to SK Town Council, then came the staff to check. He went up, approached the "owner" then came back telling us that that guy said is he not him loh. Could be someone else.  With that kind of reply, the staff was satisfied & told us the case is now closed. If there is such incident again, we can go direct to POLICE.. what is way to TAI CHI the problem.

Bottomline is, I think the staff did not even step into the flat & check if there is any evidence. Just wana hush hush settle & close it... In fact, where got thief in this world say they r thief one? 

[tom]

  Shall we take a look at some possibilities as to why our top floor neighbour acted this way ........hanging out bamboo poles creating a loud noise. Our neighbour maybe a young maid or an elderly person who are too weak handling a bamboo pole with heavy and wet clothings.

  So similar to lifting heavy dinning chairs or something, they simply drag along and create a screaching sound. Probably a new tenant came in and his carpenters are working part-time, so need a few nights to put everything in place.

  Try not to involve the police. The police will simple say , alamak this is not a criminal offence. At the same time having 2 policemen knocking at our neighbour's door will aggravate the situation and agitate our neighbours more. End result...... more noise will be created.  ( more carpenters will start working at night )

I would think, the best solution is to recognise those neighbours and when you meet them in the lifts, or elsewhere, greet each other, make friends and slowly relate your problems to them and finally I belief, even rough, uneducated people will understand . It takes time and patience to reach an amicable solution.

Hope it works.  GOODLUCK. Kampong spirit lah !!

[Twig]

I totally understand where u're coming from. I've stayed at my unit for 4years oreadi. Initially, we were quite alright with each other (we n d above unit). When we juz moved in, of course their noises would be bearable but as time goes by, we realised itz an everyday thing. Hubby went to speak nicely to them before, it continued. This family hardly goes out, d man works from home, travel occasionally, wife's a housewife and the 2 kids. Imagine when we want to rest n take naps on weekends, over the course of this 4 years I have never got a chance to probably rest at home. It's either their stomping, or dragging and slamming of furniture. I can be in my bedroom napping and get woken up by one of the kids jumping up and down in the living room. It goes on and on. I have made complaints to police, and a few months back to the HDB. They tried to improvise at first but I guess, a leopard can never change itz spots.