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Navigating landlord-tenant relationships can often be frustrating. However, for a couple, an attempt to lease an office space turned into a dramatic ordeal involving illegal subletting, robbery, and theft after meeting an “owner” from hell.
On Facebook today (December 2) to air his complaints, Don Tan said that his “landlord” had been pretending to be the owner of his Midview City office unit, and had even attacked his wife and three-year-old son.
The man is being investigated for voluntarily causing harm, police confirmed in response to inquiries from AsiaOne.
Tan and his business partner had found the rental ad in Carousell and decided on it because it was a central location and a “decent office,” he wrote.
However, his “landlord” soon began to display strange behavior.
He would supposedly enter the unit however he wanted, sometimes even without their consent, Tan claimed.
“It seemed peculiar to us since he always wore the same shirt and shorts. He claimed to have 16 units in the building and four companies.”
But they only discovered the truth when the actual owner of the unit appeared. It turned out that the man had allegedly violated his contract by illegally subletting the unit to Tan.
Tan then signed a lease with the actual owner.
The “owner” kept trying to reach them, but they ignored their calls and messages, Tan said.
The final straw came when the man attacked his wife and son while briefly leaving the office on November 21.
A 41-second CCTV clip posted by Tan showed the man entering the office, pushing Tan’s wife, who was carrying their son at the time.
The man was also shown pushing and grabbing her arm as she struggled and repeatedly yelled at him to “get out.”
The incident left Tan’s wife with a fractured toe, bruises, abrasions and a bite mark on her arm, he said, adding that their son was also traumatized.
