Might be worth watching your step for a few months. IME East Malaysians are, generally speaking, a little more emotional and impulsive than West Malaysians.

be there to check....

Check everything after they move out, hope they didn't left any dead body under your house

6pm will proceed to lodge police report. and then will go check my house.

I was wondering, did your unit electricity and water supply under new tenant or you? On land house, it will be best to let them register by using their name especially electricity. My previous tenant owed RM2.5k, a lot of dispute and excuses given like my unit's air conditioner is sucking too much electricity and etc.

Until you get your keys, it's hard to hold onto their promise after several instances of holding you. Until then, good luck to you then

didnt know can change tnb name for tenant too. Will try this in future.

Surprise to read that TS let the new tenant to occupy a fully furnished unit with a single cent collected

lastest update:

tenant moved out based on promise when i reach the house. maybe he is scare of police because i did mentioned i will bring police along when i go get back my key. when i reach my house, nobody is there already. luckily all my electronic appliances and furniture still there. but, the house is really really dirty and also smelly in the kitchen.

did detail check on every single corner of the house to confirm there are no dead body left in the house. Lol.

lesson learnt. Don't ever accept cheque as payment in the future.

i really hope there will be no next victim like me from the same guy. shall i share the name here?

Cheque or cash is the same. As long as the money is with you or in your bank account, then only you pass the tenant your unit's key.

From what I know, for monthly rental, it will be best for you to go there and collect personally rather than having the it being bank into your account. The reason being is that you will a glance of what has happened to your unit and listen to their rental fee delaying excuses.

Also, if the tenant is delaying the rental fee, you will need to give them a grace period for example 1 week and after that, you will need to be prudent to tell them to move out. Nowadays, there are a lot of tenants giving different excuse and one of the best way to protect yourself is to be straight forward and no hard feeling.

Good luck for your future rental then.

^ Agree.

Though it's convenient for you need not to travel but you'll never know what is happening to your property. Take the opportunity to inspect the property while collecting the rent.

You can also ensure that the tenant is not diverting from what has been agreed upon. A lot of tenants promised that it will only be for his own stay but ended up having a group of people setting an encampment in the living hall.

A lot of property were being misused as a hub for manufacturing "drugs" simply because landlord did not bother as long as they get good money for it but try to imagine, if your property gets busted as being one, not only this will land you in a lot of trouble but also, your property will be seized for a long long time until the police finished investigating the case or worst case scenario, the DPP finished prosecuting the case.

Can you imagine the years of rental lost.

How's your issue? Solved?

Yeah.... they moved out eventually. I got back my house in original condition, except very dirty.

In future, make sure all monies are deposited before you allow tenant to move-in. In Malaysia, the law is generally bias in favour of tenants and not landlords. There are instances where the tenant sue the landlord for breach of contract even though the Tenant did not pay rental first. Yes, they rather pay lawyer also don't pay the landlord first. I did a write-up on this subject matter, you can have a look at it... am still updating it . all comments are welcomed.

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=ST&f...0#entry72593860

Share knowledge. Landlord cant simply go change padlocks upon serving notice. Its illegal. Better go proper procedures to evade the problem comes back biting your ass. or don't use the general template of tenancy agreement.

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This post has been edited by VOOSH: Apr 27 2016, 02:00 PM