If an unit caught by authority, tenants (partitioned) chased by authority, they can get any compensation?

Are the co-living companies actively dismantling the partitions?

Otherwise some very bored and spiteful Karen can just browse through all their ads and just report 1 by 1.

Currently supply>demand, most landlords will drop price to be tenanted. Rental yield from partitioned units will likely much lower than expected and unworthy to consider.

actually it has never been allowed from the beginning, 10years back also not allowed as doesn't fit bomba requirement.

I have seen bomba spot check unit and ask owner to remove. So be it this statement issue by DBKL now, long long time ago already not allowed, just that no ppl enforce.

The only logical reason bomba come your house and spot check is actually you kena report by other ppl

now with this statement come out, sure got many jealous owner will report to management and if management actually ignore them, those too free owner might report to authority

Yup. Law, regulations and safety issue. Only owners and tenants with self interest keep twisting facts for their self interest.

We yet to go to insurance protection and coverage....imagine if the building is on fire and insurer dismiss the claim as some units are illegally partitioned... Imagine how owners will react.

I think the condo management will be blamed for allowing that …

This is what happens when all the co-living businesses just focus on the yield of renting out your living room and ignore all the risks and downsides.

I feel a tinge of pity for those who paid good money to erect the partitions and now have to pay to take them down. Really negative profit.

Most gurus onli hav 1 way tix for investors.

HOLAND

They onli wanna build their bank acc not ur portfolio

They take the risk to exploit grey area now they have to pay the price, it's a fair game. There is no free lunch.

Again this is not grey area. This is a crystal clear local regulations.

This regulation already there since donkey years ago.They chose to ignore it with knowledge enforcement is weak and nobody will make a fuss out of it.

Now they claim they are victim and doing a noble service to provide affordable housing? Come on...can do better than this.....

After all the huluhala, business as usual. places are full of partitioned. Too late to stop, seriously.

The amount of responses from this thread points to...

That's the way to go. Don't add partitions yourself. Buy properties that have optimal rooms, ask them to give hackable walls. You may reduce the number of rooms if you like but many rooms is the default from developer

I agree with you, it's not how humans should be made to live, tenants treated like rental farm

Actually partitioned rooms fulfil a much sought after niche.
That why they are hot in the rental market now.

For those who
cannot afford proper room in condo >rm700
dun want old, dirty room in low/mid apartmt rm400-600
a rm500 partitioned room is the only choice.

A 900 sqft condo properly partitioned can make 5 rooms > 100sqft each, with windows and shared living n kitchen space.
Working single pipl only need come back and sleep.

No i dun own condo unit for rental.
My son planning to work in kl next year, so we went looking for rooms.
I have seen the rooms myself, not judging by forum talk only.

I have stayed in a room partitioned unit when I just started working in kl, in setapak area. Actually the unit was not too bad, there are still plenty of space outside and still have a pretty big kitchen 10 ft long. My room was pretty big too, prob around 150 sqft. Meanwhile my friend that stayed in cheras at another condo, it was so terrible that there wasn't even a kitchen for them nor dinning table outside. I think at the end of day depends on how humane the owner is

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Please tell me how room rate will go up without house partitioned?

The extra income from the partitioned room goes to pocket of operators and greedy owners with blatant ignorance and total lack of respect to local regulations.

I stayed in a partitioned balcony room in Setapak as well. The room size was comfortable, and it had good ventilation. Importantly, the rent was affordable and it's close to the city center.

Btw my contract with the owner still has 2+ years left. In this case, should I start looking for an alternative or wait until the contract ends first?

The current densities of high rise are already pushing the density limits of what a commercial property can do. Compared to residential titles, the service apartments are like double the density. Then you add all these nonsense partitions and rooms which has been pointed out repeatedly as a fire and overcrowding hazard. When something goes wrong, the blame bucket will be passed around. Better they do something now and an official statement means that building insurers can decline a claim if anything happens which is enough of an incentive to get management to take it seriously.

These are the repercussions of those few “investors” who have tunnel vision.

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