My way of doing it:

- Maintain own name for utilities
- Send utility bills to tenants every month
- Pay on behalf of tenants
- If things goes south, I have the utility deposit to cover and IC of tenant to report police

To me I don't think changing the utilities to the tenants name is worth the hassle, both for me and also to the tenants. Anyway even if the name is under the tenant and he forfeited, your unit will be impacted as well.

This post has been edited by victorian: Sep 29 2023, 11:53 AM

Well it's the last resort. I don't think anyone wants to be reported to the police, commercial disputes or not.

Not sure why are you so against people lodging police report.

If the tenant has overdue utility bill, you will need to lodge a police report for eviction anyway.

Your utilities will still be barred until the tenant clear his outstanding...

So it's still your problem...

Yes now tnb and airselangor can give you daily breakdown. Once it hit an alarming level, check with your tenants.

At least they know you are watching closely.

Talk to your tenant nicely. He wouldn't want his deposit to be forfeited as well.

If that's the case, I'll probably up the utility deposit because definitely not enough to cover in case he runs away