Incase you didn't know, in Singapore if you want to park your car at the parking lot downstairs of your apartnment (government or private apartments) you have to PAY for a parking permit. And it's not cheap you know! Parking permits range from $65-$100 a month. If you choose to renew your permits every month, then they will send you a letter before it expires to tell you to come and renew. They give you a 3 week timeframe usually.
We've had a car here for 7 years now and have never had any problems in the past. But this time when we tried to renew a week before the expiry, they told us all our carpark lots around our apartment was fully booked!!! We were flabbergasted!! Usually each home owner is given priority to buy a permit for one car. Now days of course a lot of home owners have multiple cars, so I really don't understand how this 'priority' thing is done when a week before our permits expire all the lots are already full! They should do something like first car gets to book first, then after the window closes then the other cars can book. (I'm making the assumption that they're not implementing this sytem).
And now because of it, we have to park our car at another lot in the next street. It is completely inconvenient, especially if we forget to take something from the car and we're already in our house.
The only comfort is that the customer officer told us that usually there are people moving in and out all the time, so we're on a 'waiting list' to have a permit for our parking lot.
So are you lost yet?
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