Stayers, what are your experiences?

Stayers can affect sweeping change. The public needs to hear us talk about our experiences. Stayers are on line first hand to experience the en bloc process and how en blocers use the rules to their advantage, even if their practices do not always exhibit an ethical standpoint.

If you are passionate about keeping your estate from an en bloc; if you feel your home is being sold out from under you with unfair practices; if you are denied your right to have a voice about your own home and how it is sold, you have the incentive and ability to do homework that no one else will do - and here we hope to share information about estates, when they go enbloc, the problems with EOGMs and the enbloc process - stuff that marketing agents, Sales Committees, enbloc lawyers, do not want the others to be cognisant of.

Stayers can debunk some popular discourses which enblocers spout - myths about needing urban renewal (when our estates are upgraded and in good condition), population growth (have you seen the amount of land available for development?), and the best one of all - sell now, buy the home of your dreams later (with a two to three year wait, profits are negated and windfalls become shortfalls) etc.

And we alone can talk about the moral, social and ethical consequences of enblocs (hardly talked about in the media and yet of pressing consequence to our national psyche). How did you feel after leaving your home after many years in the neighbourhood? Did you fall out with old friends because neighbour is pitted against neighbour? What values are your children learning in the desperate frenzy of selling home and when they have no roots? We can even suggest improvements to the LTSA based on practical suggestions or based on our experiences (backed up with reason and evidence).

Should you be silent because your neighbour is for en bloc and you are not? Should you be feeling guilty for wanting to preserve your beloved home?

Write to us and share your views with like-minded folk. We can be contacted here.