{"id":43409,"date":"2024-01-31T12:43:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T04:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/?p=43409"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:48:31","slug":"tenants-guide-maintenance-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/tenants-guide-maintenance-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenant Maintenance and Repair Guide Malaysia: What Tenants Should Report (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tenants should report maintenance issues early, clearly and with evidence. Waiting until a small leak becomes ceiling damage can turn a simple repair into a dispute over responsibility.<\/p>\n<h2>What to report immediately<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Water leaks, electrical faults and safety hazards.<\/li>\n<li>Broken locks, gates or windows.<\/li>\n<li>Appliance faults where the appliance belongs to the landlord.<\/li>\n<li>Mould, pest or structural issues noticed after move-in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to report<\/h2>\n<p>Send dated photos or videos, describe when it started, and avoid doing major repairs without approval unless it is an emergency. For landlord-side damage responsibility, read <a href=\"\/blog\/what-happens-if-your-rental-property-gets-damaged\/\">what happens if your rental property gets damaged<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenants should report maintenance issues early, clearly and with evidence. Waiting until a small leak becomes ceiling damage can turn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[9758],"class_list":["post-43409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-tenants","category-landlord","tag-repairs-and-renovation"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Featured-Photo.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"SPEEDHOME Editorial Team","author_link":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/author\/speedhome-editorial\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43409"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58758,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43409\/revisions\/58758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}