Paperwork: the letter of intent, and the tenancy agreement that fills itself

What it is

Paperwork is a document tool inside the agent dashboard. It now covers the two documents that open and close a rental deal: the letter of intent, and the residential tenancy agreement.

Both come out on your letterhead, with your name and CEA registration already on them, because we hold your profile. You fill in the property, the parties and the commercial terms, and download a clean PDF.

The part that saves the most time is the chain. Once the landlord accepts, one tap starts the tenancy agreement from the letter of intent and carries the property, the parties, the term, the rent, the deposit and the clause choices across.

Why we built it

We looked at what agents actually do between a viewing and a signed lease, and it is paperwork. Singapore runs roughly three rental contracts for every resale, so the letter of intent is one of the most-typed documents in the industry, and there is no official template for it. Every agency retypes its own.

We read three real executed letters of intent from Singapore deals before writing a line of code. They taught us the thing the online guides miss: the letter is the salesperson's instrument, issued over their name and CEA registration, with the agency's own protections in it. That is why a generic template site cannot produce a usable one, and why we can.

The market conventions in those letters disagreed with each other. One converted the good-faith deposit into the security deposit, another into the first month's advance rental. So every convention here is an editable field with its market range shown, never fixed wording that puts words in your mouth.

Who it helps

The use case

Walkthrough

1. 01

   Open Paperwork

   In your dashboard, the Paperwork tab. You can also start straight from a confirmed viewing in your Planner, which carries the property across.

2. 02

   Choose the document

   Pick Letter of Intent or Tenancy agreement. Each card says roughly how long it takes.

3. 03

   Check your letterhead

   Your name, CEA registration and agency are already filled in from your profile and collapsed out of the way. They are fixed to you and cannot be edited into someone else's name.

4. 04

   Fill in the deal

   Property, landlord, tenant and occupiers, term, rent, deposits, and the standard terms. Conventions such as the security deposit months, the minor repair cap and the diplomatic clause come with the market range as a hint, and every one of them is editable.

5. 05

   Preview the PDF

   While it is a draft the PDF carries a DRAFT watermark, so an unsigned letter can never be mistaken for an executed one.

6. 06

   Mark it ready to sign

   The watermark drops. We check the required fields first: a letter with no rent or no parties cannot leave draft.

7. 07

   Track what happened

   Mark it sent out, then signed, as the deal moves. A signed document locks: it cannot be edited or deleted, and voiding it is the only way to correct a mistake, which keeps the record of the deal intact.

8. 08

   Start the tenancy agreement

   From the signed letter, one tap starts the tenancy agreement with the deal already in it. Check the details, add the inventory, and you are done.

What it does not do

• It is a standard template for your review, not legal advice, and it says so on every page.
• It does not e-sign. You download the PDF and sign it the way you do today. Signing inside the tool is what we are building next.
• The inventory of furniture and fittings, and the two parties' contact details, do not carry across from the letter of intent, because a letter of intent does not carry them.
• It does not compute stamp duty. Lease duty is a joint liability of both parties and is stamped with IRAS; the document records who bears it. Our stamp duty calculator covers buying and selling duty, not lease duty.
• It will never produce an HDB resale Option to Purchase. That is a serialised form issued only through the HDB Resale Portal, and generating a lookalike would be a real problem for you.
• The good-faith deposit is paid to the landlord. We never hold money, and CEA does not permit a salesperson to hold transaction money either.
• Ten documents per rolling thirty days on the free plan, thirty on Verified, unlimited on Professional and Elite. Voiding or deleting one frees the slot.
• On the free plan the PDF footer carries one line saying it was prepared with FairComparisons. Paid plans render without it.

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