hi sifus.

would like to seek your kind advices regarding this.

I have a tenanted house that have been rented for 3 years now. The tenant is good and have good payment record.

However, sometimes I do wonder about how is my house condition since it has been 3 years. I also rarely visit the area since i'm quite busy most of the time.

1) How do I go around this? Can I ask tenant to give photo of the house or can I schedule for an inspection of sorts? any experienced ppl can share how do you do so? With all the cases of bad tenants these days, I do feel a bit of paranoid.

2) also, what is the best way to raise the rental fee? pretext by adding some furnitures / etc? or just raise it during contract renewal? Actually i'm renting them below market rate which is quite cheap considering the area, but since the OPR has risen dramatically over these few years, I was thinking to raise some of the fees to cover my bank payments. what is the best way to go around it?


appreciate any advices

TQ

check tenancy agreement, should have a clause for landlord to go in to insepct/check defect

u can go in on the pretense of checking if any fixtures need repair/etc

raise during contract renewal.

visiting tenant during festivals is a valid reason. buy a small hamper.

just whatsapp say its time to service air cond/ heater/ cuckoo or whatever shit then u go together with the serviceman

alternatively is say u just want to go check if any leaking or spoil need to repair early in case they dont report

I usually won't do any interval inspection on the unit internal condition, it will not bring positive outcome but the landlord will be implicated as a fussy landlord.

Even if the internal unit is damaged, what can the landlord do even if found out during the inspection? The tenant will say they are still renting, yet to return back the unit. When returning the unit only they will make it good, the landlord already hold the 2 1/2 months deposits. End up, the landlord who did the interval look like a trouble maker.

If you want to do, no one going to stop you but the chances you will offend the tenant is high. Coz they will be thinking, this landlord, suka-suka come check. If like that, there is totally no privacy at all. They will likely move out.

I have same problem, my father is managing one of my rental units - asked my father many times to raise the rent since no raise for >10 yrs and tenants slyly changed without informing us and thus skipped the normal price hike in between tenants.

Last year I beh tahan, called tenant and said bank interest rates hiked I no longer can cover the bank instalments, need to raise rental 20%. 20% raise after >10 yrs, the tenant say even after raise, it's still below market rate, so he willingly accept. Actually bank instalment is only slightly more than 50% of the new rental - so ok la.