Many tenants have been renting shoplot units for mining.
And irresponsible landlord just leeching the rent but not doing monitoring.

Ended up TNB becoming more strict to everyone.

Thanks for sharing, thus landlord should understand their responsibilities before rent out their unit, no more innocent landlord !

yupe, tnb always chase the landlord cause its easy target. the only adv to put under tenant name is at least there is a deposit to cover.

I wonder if telco companies also do this. Your tenant moved out with unpaid home internet bills and you cannot get new line for this address?

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.

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.

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.

big different. tnb deposit is not utilities deposit.

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?

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

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.

You're comparing apples with durians.

TNB is really suck, they should have cut the electricity if the tenant didn’t pay the bill for such a long time.  I think a lot of landlord also have the same problem.  TNB so rich, don’t need to collect money one,  they don’t bother to monitor those outstanding payments, just let the tenant drag the payment as long as they like. Stupid company.

Typical victim blaming mindset.

Someone thinks it's the landlord's responsibility to monitor and prevent this from happening, never mind that the account is under tenant's name.
Too high bill? Easy, collect more deposit from tenant.

If TNB relies on chasing tenant than landlord, what happens if tenant runs to another state or country where TNB has no jurisdiction?

Its a bit funny how people complain why TNB take no actions, yet from the news few days ago when TNB did try to cut electricity of an illegal bitcoin farm, people complain they have no right to break in without police permit.

How will getting a lawyer to prepare the TA make any difference to the outcome? If tenant runs off without paying the electric bill you are left holding a piece of paper whether it was prepared by a lawyer or you printed out from your PC. Either case you can still sue your ex-tenant if you want but getting justice from the courts is tough, expensive and time consuming. The point is, getting a lawyer to prepare your TA changes nothing.

I guess no use to use tenants name on rental property tnb account.

Just use our own name, at least we can always monitor it through mytnb app

thanks guys for all the useful (and some useless) inputs.

some of you wondered (and even blamed me as the "lazy landlord") on how have I neglected the fact that my tenant raked up the electricity bill outstanding up to RM30k.

the tenant has been with me for almost 4 years, running the place as a mamak. all payments were made swiftly and cleared without any issues during the entire tenure save for the period beginning from November 2019 - they started to fall behind on everything.

the account for supply is registered under my name because i want to monitor their usage. there were actually several occasions that I texted my tenant to remind them to pay the outstanding because I received notifications from TNB's smart phone application that TNB is going to terminate/suspend the supply but surprisingly enough, TNB never seems to carry out the termination/suspension.

it was partly my fault for going easy on the tenant (considering the fact that they have been a good paymaster) when they told me they were facing financial predicaments but when I started to realize something was amiss, i figured that I have to be "pro-active".

i emailed TNB, called them and even went up to their outlet to inquire why there was no termination/suspension (at the time, the outstanding was around RM20k) and TNB gave me the standard reply of "will lodge an official report for you". weeks passed and still nothing happened.

i even received a call one afternoon from TNB's technician claiming that he was there but the place was closed - feeling suspicious, I had my dad went over, the place was open but no one from TNB was seen present - that's when i suspected that TNB's people actually DID went to the place and threatened to terminate/suspend the supply but was somehow persuaded not to.

the tenant officially vacated during the CMCO period and the supply was terminated/suspended almost immediately.

i brought up the entire matter with the chronology to TNB and as usual, they don't care - their reply suggests that i should take care of my own property and they conveniently ignored the fact that i expressly requested for the supply to be terminated/suspended and implied that TNB does not "work for me".

so that's that.