I have a situation with my landlord. My 1 year tenancy ends this mid April, and I have already moved out this weekend. So he has 1 week of 'free' rental from us. He was well aware of this, and I said he has 1 week extra for someone to come and rent the unit from him. Today I met him to return the keys and to get back my deposit, but he said he needs 1 week to inspect the unit before returning me the deposit. Plus, he wants to check with management if we have any outstanding amount payable to the management even though i have ALL the receipt for water and sewerage. My electricity bill is registered with e-services under tnb, and paid the latest bill already. He also asked for the keys and cards to be returned to him immediately.

When he said 1 week to inspect the unit, anything can happen and he can probably say I have broken a few items, and told him to check everything now instead. He said everything's fine, and will return the 2 month deposit on monday cos he doesnt have money at the moment. I told him, it is unfair to not return me the rental deposit (2 months) and 1/2 month for utilities. He instead gave me 1k, which is what he has in hand at the moment. And that is only 25% of the total deposit we've put him.

Now he owes me 1 month rental, and 1/2 month utilities. And he took the keys and cards already.

I suggested I hold one pair of keys/cards as a security, but he said I will be held responsible if anything goes missing in the apartment.

For your information, we have cleaned the apartment (cleaner when we moved in anyway, it wasnt occupied for quite sometime and we had to clean it ourselves). And now he wants to hire someone to clean up the place again, and probably will charge it under me.

Any advice would be appreciated.

I have rented 3 apartments in KL, and this is the most troublesome landlord I've ever had.

Thanks for the input. I have contacted my landlord today, and still no reply. It has been 3 days (including today) that he's taken the keys/cards and without returning my full deposit (only 1k out of 4k). How long can he delay it till I take further action? When I call him, he keeps saying he's in a meeting and call me back.

I've taken the precaution that, I found his Facebook, and I know where he works (he sent me emails from his work email) and i have some contacts working in his corporation - just in case he tries to be funny.

Thank you!

This post has been edited by static: Apr 11 2011, 01:18 PM

I finally received a cheque, but it was dated for 3 days later, and I would need to wait till this Saturday to deposit it. And he deducted RM100 from my deposit for ruining the water heater, but it was internal wiring issue and we had already informed him in writing (email) before the switch blew up - he blamed us. Then took him 1 week plus to fix the heater. Personally, he is trying to manipulate me. The lease was under my partner's name and due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to leave the country earlier than expected and hence, we moved out 1 week earlier, but paid the rent in full and fulfilled the lease requirement as well (1 yr tenancy). Apartment was left cleaner compared when we moved in.

- Old CRT tv, half broken, takes up lots of space and bad reception - we hardly use it
- mostly cheap and second hand furniture, easily breakable (broke one table, the leg came off one day while moving it. The remaining 3 legs are flimsy so we didnt use it)
- stained kitchen top when we moved in, blamed us when we moved out.
- promised a hot plate, but bought induction cooker (RM99 only, the price was still on it) and caused us to buy new kitchenwares (he provided cheap kitchenwares and could not use with induction)
- mouldy bathroom when moved in.
- broken aircond when moved in, fixed 3 times in 6 months.
- fridge will need to be defrost every month or else the door cant be closed

Worst landlord