Not nice, as you saw my facebook status.
Guys, I must share my experience here. I was looking for off-campus accommodation in the early September, I asked here and there, and finally I got a number from a senior. I called the owner and enquired about the room. She told me the room is newly built, very big and nice, near to campus, has a bathroom, so on and so forth. I am worried that I couldn't get a room because the semester will commence very soon, so I just banked in 1 month rental deposit (RM550 excluding utility bills) to secure my place, bloody expensive right? 

When it comes to the day I must leave my hometown, I came here alone. When I reach the house, my first feeling was like, WTH why so dirty? And it seems like it fell into disuse. I called the owner and she showed me my room. The room has a bed, a table, and a wardrobe. I was satisfied with the room size, but definitely NOT the room condition.

She told me that she will get me a fan, and get things done as soon as next day. I agreed with that, and asked her to clean up the room for me. She just simply mopped the room, and left. (FYI she's not staying in the house, as far as I know, she possessed more than 10 houses in TTS) I was so so so so so soooo stupid. I should have asked her to clean up the whole room for me. With the price of RM550 rental, I do expect a better service and room quality! So in the end, I called my parents and told them about these. The owner immediately send me a standing fan and left. After that, I cleaned up the room. At least, survivable.

There is a thing I dislike the most, when she ask the workers to come to my place, she never turned up, she's just tooooo busy with her daily stuff. So I just have to carry my laptop, and some other important things with me, anytime anywhere. Well, I thought, like finally? - I can settle down. A couple of days ago, it rained heavily. I went back to my room, and found my room has a lot of rain water under my bed and table. I just realised there's a hole behind the A/C, in which the workers never seal it up after setting up an A/C in my room.

Guys, here are some advices you must take. Especially to those who are a new student, or someone who seeks for a private arranged off-campus unit:

If it's 180 applicants for just foundation, what's the numbers for all courses across the uni? It should really take some time to process. Admission team is not huge (they only need to be huge during major intake, not all-year round), and they have their own jobs on their hands too, they don't just work to review your applications. Every application is unique, and is bound to have problems, with some of them must go through their leader to decide - who's someone busier than them and have less time to entertain these applications. Some of them are actually reviewed by lecturers instead of just admission team, who are also someone busy with their jobs.

It's not about inefficiency, it's the system. That being said, it's not some money-sucking application where you can get an offer on the spot of applying. Look beyond, there's quality embedded in the application reviewing. (Oh man, so greasy the talk!)