Hi Gingercat,
You back here yet? How was last friday?
Worried leh, didn't see you in this post or the other post..
Hi Xin,
Welcome, saw your post on the WIS thing.. tell u my experience hor..
I even subscribled to the HDB newsletter to inform me of any WIS 1st hand.. coz the officer told me that email will be sent out the 1st first thing, even before the newspaper..
I check the pattern, every mth HDB will have something, either WIS/BTO/Ballot, almost every two or 3 mth, there is one WIS, bout every 3-4 WIS, one WIS is for established town.
The emails are sent normally at the last week of the mth, so every last wk of the mth, I'll wake up very early to check email.
BUT! it's not always true the email are sent early, sometimes, it arrives only at 8++ after the newpaper, sometime it does arrive at your mailbox at 5 plus am..
So when I got the email with the WIS I wanted, I'll take cab straight to HDB.
But even when I reached there at 8++ or 9++, my number is like 900++ or even 1000++
Of coz not everyone will hand in the forms, but the possibility of getting the 1 or 2 unit you wanted is 99.9% taken up. (Unless you are fine with ANY flat..)
So sad lor.. My friend who works HDB tell me that maybe those who works in particular dept in HDB had informed their friends even before the articles were out. Coz, even when the newspapers are just sent out, hundreds of ppl are already queuing at the doorstep of HDB.
Also, there is a kind of WIS for the RC members, etc.. those are also more priviledged. My mum's friend, he got the MP to write in and his queue number jumped from 90+ to queue number 1. Of coz he got his choice unit..
As the place I wanted was Bt Batok to be near my mum, the units were always snatched up coz maybe it's more establish than the new ones in Jurong West, Bt Panjang and CCK.. But those in Jurong West quite cheap, my friend got a 5rm for only 165K! New and clean some more! but she hates going to town now..
Finally, after a waste of my time and energy, plus with my troublesome criterias like wanting a house to 'sit south face north', kitchen in this corner or the house, toilet at blaa blaa...
In the end I gone thru agent. And even with me shortlist only to about 20 blks of flats I wanted within Bukit Batok and Clementi, viewed like 40-50 units. I took 1 yr to get my house..