Hi all,
This is the situation..
I rented out my nicely renovated apartment to a family in JB through an agent.
From the beginning, there was 1 month delay in the rental payment. The tenant is very arrogant when you push for the rental payments. She claims that the rental is nothing big for her. But still you have to push every month and the rental comes in after pushed by my agent. For some months, i had to block the access cards to demand rental. It worked. At the last remaining 2 months of the tenancy, the was no money coming in. The tenants attitude changed. She claims her business and husbands job is affected due to MCO, seeking sympathy. The most shocking thing happened when i received a message from TNB and SAJ claiming there is pending payment of RM 7200 and RM 400 respectively. ( My biggest mistake, i did not keep track on the utility payments ). On average, the monthly electric bill was RM 900. The tenant told that they will settle all the pending utility payments. They are currently waiting for claims from KWSP ( dont know if its true). After continuous demand, they cleared only the water bill payment.TNB have terminated the power supply due to payment overdue. I requested the Management Office to block them from moving out with their belongings. Now, they are staying at their relatives house (dont know where). Since the past last week , they dont reply my messages or pick up my calls. TNB is sending demand letters to me to make the payment asap.
My agent did a detail search about them, from word of mouth, they are a family with money but always cheats people..
Now...
There is pending amount around RM 11k that i need to receive from the tenant. This is excluding the damage that they have caused to the house. (They have turned the house to a rat hole. I manage to see the house once when they requested for some piping repairs.) Minus the rental deposits, will have 7k pending.
So..
Anyone here have been in this situation?
Please advise...what should i do?
P/s : I did some research online and disappointed to know how unprotected landlords are. The laws are more favourable for the tenant.
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