Most people do not read the contract expecting the land lord to be reasonable

Contract does not help much anyway. Unless you are willing to go through the trouble of using the legal route.

As mentioned, the landlord has the power since he holds your deposit and they abuse it 99% of the time.

Funny that it always never seem that the landlord is grateful for the tennant for giving them rent.

But then most landlord will use the "worst" case scenario to defend themselves. You know those kind of scenarios where tennants actually purposefully destroy their property.

Most tennant just want peace. They will not purposefully destroy the property. Of course landlord can make time to inspect the property once in a while.

But then most of them really are psychopaths.

Now psychopath wannabe tenant wants to deal with psychopath landlord

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4987729

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It seems to me that you have personally experienced an unfortunate incident whereby the landlord did not return you the deposit.

Like I have mentioned before, it is a business transaction, owners and tenants should be professional about it.

Expectations were not set properly by both parties. (Could be the negligence of the agent be trying to reduce friction during negotiation).

Trust me when I say that it protects you and the owner's interests if things go wrong, and things CAN and WILL go wrong. (But I doubt you get it? hehe) To all landlords here, when renting your property out.

Please take the time, sit down and go through the agreement with the tenant (this includes setting expectations and letting them know in advance that the deposit can not be used to offset rent) amongst other matters.

And you really think you are going to fight the landlord in court if he decides not to return the deposit to you for some made up reason.

Why not?

Small claims court is free.

Personally would never let any tenant continue staying without a deposit, period. The cost of furnishings and the house is much much more than the miserable deposit.

Screening of the tenants is very essential as is proper communication and as said above, making it very clear that deposit can never be used as offsets. Sometimes if a prospective tenant shows attitude that might result in future dispute, you have to reject him/her.

Bear in mind there is little sympathy for landlords in Malaysian law or in the court of public opinion: as can be seen by some above replies. Tenants expects charity and grace, forgetting that landlords, while, business owners, also are humans with families to feed and bills to pay. If companies were run in this way, banks would not foreclose properties, credit card debts would not be sky high and there would be no "tarik kereta".If only landlords in malaysia had powers like the non financial institutions to mark tenants' ccris/ctos, they would be much more respectful and considerate.

This post has been edited by LoTek: Jun 29 2020, 09:32 AM

Am wondering why once awhile, there will be a psychopath forumer appearing and giving his 2 cents kopitiam opinion.

I would think set a meeting with him now. Ask him what date he wants to end and settle on an inspection date. Try to come to agreement on further payment. If not paying up the third last month, tenant can move out. Focus on finding a new tenant.

You sound pretty sick really.

Must be one of those psychopath failures who thinks that he can bully someone just because someone is renting from him.

It's 3 months before contract expiry.

And 2 months security deposit is not meant to offset last two months of rental (but a lot of tenants do that to take advantage of the landlord), it's meant to repair any damage done to the property during the tenancy period.

Anyone realised @shortone146 necro this thread? TS haven't been active since Sept 16 2019.

I have 2 likes ... you ?

Your name ..short short or sort sort ... whatever.

You can argue till cow comes home .. to label landlord as psychopath is childish !

You hit the wrong forumer, he can nuke in kopitiam ...so many cases.

This post has been edited by mini orchard: Jun 29 2020, 11:06 AM

There are plenty of nightmare stories out there of landlords who do allow offsetting of rent.

It’s spelled out properly in the tenancy agreement and is agreed by both parties.

Some just want to take advantage of the landlord’s generosity.

Says a lot about the person.

Wow. You should get a noble prize because of your 2 likes right?

Yeah yeah.

Landlords are generous.

I must be living in another planet.

Was it agreed, black and white in the tenancy agreement?

If yes, no point bitching on forums.

Just buy your own house.

I got screwed over by 2 out of 3 tenants.

1st tenant asked me to let them offset the rent. I thought they looked decent, payment was on time. So I said ok, stupid me didnt check the electric bill, they had rm2.7k outstanding in electric fees, nonwithstanding the furniture wasnt taken care of.

2nd one left, however i hadnt realized that they had damaged the toilet flush for both of the toilets before leaving.

I suspect some of the tenants might be related to some personal problems that have been hounding me over the years, however my impression as a landlord after these 1st few tenants have been to nvr allow offsetting rent. Theres almost always some kind of damage or repairs that needs to be done. Even outside of vandalism and deliberate scams.

Following this topic. Hope to learn some tricks on how to deal with my future tenants.

See, you contradict yourself as per usual.