How to Avoid Bad Tenant and Choosing the Right, Potential Good Tenants? Landlord’s Tips!

10 March 2010 | Category: Property Investment | Comments Off


How to choose the right tenant for your rental property investment? Becoming a successful landlord, the knowledge of how to do tenant screening is important! Else, choosing the wrong and problem tenants will screw up your return of investment eventually.

How to Choose Good Tenant?

Talk to Them. First, I reckon the tenant screening process for choosing the right tenant started from your first conversation with the potential prospect. Pay attention to the way they talk, how they ask question, and how they answer your question. Judge their altitude and manner throughout the conversation.

Meet Them Face to Face. Secondly, ask yourself what is your first impression on the prospect? Is the person come on time to view your property? Are they dressed well? Is their car well maintained? It gives you more idea on what types of tenant they are like to be in future.

How to Avoid Bad Tenant?

Get a Name Card From Them. It provides a lot useful information. Call up the company and verify the information provided and ask more details about them. Example: Are they leaving the company soon? Are they confirmed permanent staff or still under probation period? My main concern is, are they able to pay rental on time without a stable job and income?

What if the prospect does not have a name card? Don’t be shy, ask for their company name. If they refuse to do so and keep their profile mystery, are you comfortable to deal further with them? I won’t.

Landlord’s Tips

Visit the potential good tenant prospect’s current staying house if possible. Be honest, I come across few experiences with my ex-tenants who are really surprised me when notice their house is cleaner and much better maintained compare to my own staying house.

After visiting, I believe they are good tenants, it convinces me with lesser worries to rent my apartment to them. Fortunately, they did maintained my property well till the end of tenancy agreement.

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Auntie Lily, The Worst Landlord, Bad Reputation Apartment Owner in Malaysia?!

4 March 2010 | Category: Property Investment | 1 Comment


The worst landlord in Malaysia, Auntie Lily?! Be careful if you are looking room for rent in Kelana Jaya, PJ! I was surprised to read 10 pages of hundreds bad comment about a landlady story (Auntie Lily) in PJNet forum. The improper way of the apartment owner managing her rental properties, Kelana D’Putera Condo and Kelana Puteri Condo has brought lot hoo-ha of tenants’ complaints.

It’s a good start being a landlord to generate passive income by collecting rent from tenants! Bear in mind, always be a good landlord! Manage your reputation wisely as a smart landlord investor! I bet you will not want to be like the case of Auntie Lily. Nowadays, tenants become smarter, some of them are actually paying for landlord screening services to:

  • Verify ownership of the property
  • Check if the property is in foreclosure
  • Verify the utilities are on legally
  • Check the complaints filed against the landlord, if any
  • Get references from prior tenants

Unfortunately, Malaysia seems to lack of such landlord background check servicing for tenant. Else, there will be more nasty landlord have to pay for the price!

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Partition More Rooms for Rental Property, Apartment, Condos, Illegal or Legal in Malaysia?

3 March 2010 | Category: Property Investment | Leave a Comment


Is it legal to partition more rooms for rental condos, apartment or landed property so that investor can collect more rentals from extra tenants? Basically, it is illegal for landlord to do so.

Firstly, the total number of people allowed is specified in the Selangor Housing and Real Estate Board (LPHS) guidelines and basically is based on the size of the property’s premises according to Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ).

Secondly, the partition room does not comply with safety standards which might obstruct the fire and rescue missions in case of emergency.

For more information and guidelines, please visit Selangor Housing and Real Estate Board (Lembaga Perumahan Dan Hartanah Selangor, LPHS)

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