Similar situation here, tenant not paying rent.
After Google then only realized cut electricity / water is illegal one.

Dunno why property law is so protective to tenant but not owner.
The one who made the law think property owner must be so rich?
It is mostly middle income people who struggling to pay back the loan every month.

Really stupid law.

tumpang, if landlord provide semi furnish who is responsible for the electrical appliances maintenance cost and repair if breakdown?
in cases like this is there any responsibilities from the agent to help chase the tenant or once rented out the agent is wash hand?

Hi all,

Need some advice here. i think this is a common problem but as this has never happened to me before so i would appreciate some guidance as a landlord. I have been chasing my tenant to pay their rent every month and now they have not paid the rent for 2 months. i have decided to lock them out of their apartment until they pay the outstanding amount as they have also incurred considerable damage to my house. my agent is being unresponsive to this situation now and i am left to handle this problem on my own. Anyone else faced the same issue or can help to advise what i need to do next?

thank you.

No it is illegal to lock the tenant in or out because you have entered into a tenancy agreement with him that means he has the right of entry and usage of your property as per stipulated in the tenancy agreement. Whether he miss his rental payment is not the issue here. Unfortunately in cases like this you have to go by the procedure by sending him letters requesting him to pay up, letter to terminate the tenancy, and if he still doesn't entertain, make a police report and then find a lawyer to seek court order to enter the property. The court bailiff will enter together as well as a valuer if there are valuable belongings inside that you can auction off to recover whatever that he is owing to you.

Most likely is that you will incur more losses as there won't be a lot of valuable things from a tenant who cannot even pay the rental but this is how it is.

Or you can report to police and talk to them see if they can talk to the tenant, ask them to leave after you've terminated the tenancy. Sometimes the same word delivered by police can be a lot more powerful than the same word delivered by yourself. Then afterwards show some gratuity to the police officer that helped you, i think you know what to do.

What if the tenancy agreement specified that if non payment by xxxth day of the month, Landlord  at any time thereafter to re-enter upon the Demised Premises, and the tenancy agreement will be void.

Will it violate the law?