{"id":44280,"date":"2024-04-15T17:32:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T09:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/?p=44280"},"modified":"2026-06-20T02:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:12:36","slug":"5-tips-for-a-fair-and-efficient-return-of-rental-security-deposits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/5-tips-for-a-fair-and-efficient-return-of-rental-security-deposits\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Deposit Malaysia: What Landlords Can &#038; Cannot Deduct (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This older security-deposit guide is now a supporting bridge to the updated landlord deposit-deduction family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the current English guide, read: <a href=\"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/security-deposit-deduction-malaysia\/\">What Can I Deduct From My Tenant\u2019s Deposit in Malaysia?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For BM, read: <a href=\"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/potongan-deposit-sewa-malaysia\/\">Apa yang boleh saya tolak dari deposit penyewa?<\/a>. For Chinese, read: <a href=\"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/%e6%8a%bc%e9%87%91%e5%8f%af%e4%bb%a5%e6%89%a3%e5%a4%9a%e5%b0%91\/\">\u79df\u5ba2\u7684\u62bc\u91d1\uff0c\u6211\u53ef\u4ee5\u6263\u591a\u5c11\uff1f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Core rule: security deposit deductions should be itemised, evidence-based and connected to the signed agreement. Keep move-in photos, move-out photos, inventory, receipts, utility bills and repair quotes before making any deduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This older security-deposit guide is now a supporting bridge to the updated landlord deposit-deduction family. For the current English guide,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":60040,"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":[11,9754],"tags":[9756,9670,55,74],"class_list":["post-44280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-tenants","category-market-law","tag-rental-tax","tag-security-deposit","tag-tenant-guide","tag-tenant-rights"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/post_44280_real_env_caption_1600x900.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Wong Whei Meng","author_link":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/author\/bhajan\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44280","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59850,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44280\/revisions\/59850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}