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.

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.

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.

In TS' case, the account is under tenant's name and he's still facing the issue of being denied power connection.
I don't think Choice 1 makes any difference. End of the day, landlord still kena chase the tenant to pay or pay up if he wants to reconnect power supply.

This was what I told someone in one of the threads on how to avoid tenant owing lots of money to TNB. But he die2 insisted TNB should chase the tenant if meter is registered in tenant's name.