Start by demanding an itemised statement in writing. A landlord in Malaysia may keep part of your deposit only for a real breach of the signed agreement \u2014 unpaid rent, unpaid bills in their name, or damage beyond normal wear and tear. Money kept with no itemised list is a wrongful deduction.<\/p>
SPEEDHOME Editorial Team \u00b7 Last updated May 2026.<\/strong><\/p> You can recover wrongful deductions at the Small Claims court for up to RM5,000 with no lawyer needed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My Landlord Won’t Return My Deposit \u2014 What Can I Do? Start by demanding an itemised statement in writing. A<\/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-57888","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\/57888","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=57888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57889,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57888\/revisions\/57889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Your deposit is your money \u2014 the landlord is only holding it<\/h2>