Maintenance fees for regular condo (say RM250K - RM350K) is definitely around RM200-RM300 per month.

If you rent out your unit, common that the owner pays the maintenance fees unless you make special agreement that the tenant pays - which you may unlikely to get agreement unless your rental rate is attractive to the tenant or that the facilities are so good.

And don't forget you need to put aside some money for year end fixing and patching and repairing to your unit too - renting is easy but when your tenants leave - you will need some money to spend on housework your tenant leaves you as going away present ...

But just to give you some encouragement - couple of days ago I was in Semenyih - a god forsaken run downed place... old houses, unkept etc. Yet - hear this - yet - a house that cost RM300+ K that has 4 rooms can fetch RM2000 in rental. Why? Because TTS (or commonly known as Taman Tasik Semenyih) is just 1 to 2km from the Uni of Nottingham College … and renting to students are BIG MONEY!



This post has been edited by ricstc: Mar 2 2012, 11:11 PM