Hello everyone,

I am the Airbnb host in Kota Kinabalu.
I started hosting about 2 years already and so far accumulated 150 good review.
Now I am having BIG BIG problem.
The management of my housing try to stop me doing this short term rental business, they gave me warning letter, they said unless I can obtain a licence from the local authority.
I went to the local Kementerian Pelancongan, the officer said there is nothing wrong to do rental service, but I need to get a business licence from the city council. But the city council officer said they can't issue any licence to residential area .
Without the valid licence, I have to remove my listing from Airbnb...

Can anyone here advise what I suppose to do now?

Thanks in advance...

This post has been edited by grchen: Jan 9 2016, 07:47 PM

I am using digital lock (without key).
You can reset to new password after the guest check-out.

This post has been edited by grchen: Jan 12 2016, 10:41 AM

Do you have Airbnb Malaysia contact number? Try to google for it, but can't find it.

Thanks in advance!

Thanks, munkeyflo

I have checked through the Sale and Purchase agreement. It only stated NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE.
From my understanding, anything with a income shall classify as "Commercial Use" regardless is long or short term rent.
If this bring up to legal case, can I argue in this point?