{"id":57868,"date":"2026-05-31T21:06:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/first-time-landlord-malaysia\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:06:48","slug":"first-time-landlord-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/first-time-landlord-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"I Just Rented Out My First Property in Malaysia \u2014 What Do I Set Up Before the Tenant Moves In?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>I Just Rented Out My First Property in Malaysia \u2014 What Do I Set Up Before the Tenant Moves In?<\/h1><p>Don&#8217;t start by looking for a tenant \u2014 start by building the paper trail that protects you before they arrive. SPEEDHOME sees these patterns repeat across thousands of tenancies every year.<\/p><p><strong>SPEEDHOME Editorial Team \u00b7 Last updated May 2026.<\/strong><\/p><h2>The five things to get right before the tenant moves in<\/h2><p>1. A stamped tenancy agreement. 2. A signed, dated move-in inventory. 3. The correct deposit structure. 4. Declare rental income to LHDN. 5. Know what you can and cannot do if rent stops.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Just Rented Out My First Property in Malaysia \u2014 What Do I Set Up Before the Tenant Moves In?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord"],"featured_image_src":null,"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\/57868","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=57868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57869,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57868\/revisions\/57869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}