Normally telco bills are not high and they do auto disconnection after 1 month for unpaid bills. So owner can afford to pay to start collecting rental.

Question is, does the owner need to settle the arrears before the same telco allows a new registration?
Usually when tenant moves out, the landlord only checks water and electricity bills.

They can implement tnb rule, but I havent heard of it.

Tnb is common as the debt is high.

Many landlord fails to monitor on a regular basis and a big shock awaits them at the end of tenancy.

This post has been edited by mini orchard: Jul 11 2020, 10:00 AM

That's why i think it's a bit unfair for TNB to penalise owner for arrears under the account of tenants.
Usage >> deposit, potong lah.

Imagine you run a cybercafe and your landlord keeps pestering you about your electricity usage and whether you're paying on time - when the account is under your name.

1. Landlord can also be tenant by having a 'fake' tenancy agreement. Tnb action is also to prevent fraud.


2. All usage and payment on any property can be monitored using their tnb apps.

This post has been edited by mini orchard: Jul 11 2020, 10:15 AM

TNB allows the owner to change the account to tenant's name but this is a false sense of security.

If tenant doesn't pay TNB does not chase owner to pay the bill but refuse to re-connect supply to the property so what is owner to do?

No difference from requiring owner to pay.

Edit

This post has been edited by adamhzm90: Jul 11 2020, 10:36 AM

Technically tnb not chasing him.
Just not allowing him to register another tenant.
Which as others have said make total sense.
Since if not, landlord can just keep registering new tenants.

As a landlord TS should have kept track of the tenants bill.

No others can be responsible for the property other than the owner if one knows basic legal matters.

If the landlord have consulted a lawyer to prepare the TA instead of agent. Penny wise pound foolish if something like TS case. Lawyer charged 1 month rental as legal fee excluding disbursrment for TA which many landlords wont want to pay as they also need to pay the agent fees. That would be only 10 months rental collection for a year tenancy.

This post has been edited by mini orchard: Jul 11 2020, 10:57 AM

big different. tnb deposit is not utilities deposit.

As a landlord, I can collect any amount of utilities deposit based on tenant business activities. Is my property and I decide.

Tnb deposit is quite standard for type of building usage. They cant collect RM5k for house as example ! They have guidelines. And houses can rake up few thousands of unpaid bills !

This post has been edited by mini orchard: Jul 11 2020, 11:16 AM

ask bck tnb, how com previously owe so much u no go cut the electricity?

Same issue as well. TNB won't cut the electricity despite tenant not paying for 12 months, raking in more than RM 4k in electricity bills. What have they been doing? Any unit to handle this complaint?

Is like asking tenant to take care of the house. .. 1 out of 10 will only do it if the landlord is lucky.

utilities deposit usually based on rental and mostly one month. you sure can ask any amount, but most will not give.

Sometimes i feel tnb also another scammer

According to certain logic, it's landlord's responsibility to monitor and ensure tenant pay their bills on time, never mind that the account is under tenant's name.
And if your tenant's first month's usage bill is RM30k, you can demand they pay you RM30k utilities deposit, even though the account is under their name.

If you fail to do both, it's apparently your fault and not TNB for not disconnecting the supply.

Then dont rent. Why take risk ? Why do some owners only rent to certain race ?

Ask ts whether 30k is how many months' rental collection.

This post has been edited by mini orchard: Jul 11 2020, 12:05 PM

Just like car servicing ... owner cannot expect service centre to remind them to send the car for servicing even if is under warranty period. The onus is on the owner to do it according to to schedule in the service booklet.

You're comparing apples with durians.