Advantages and Disadvantages of Owning A Rental Property in Penang

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Over the years, Penang has crowned with many prestigious titles — UNESCO World Heritage Sites; World’s best food destination; Top 10 places for retirees; Top 10 cities list for best in travel in 2016. With that in mind, one might consider making a killing in rental investment in Penang. With the scarce of lands in Penang, apartment in Penang has been the best staying option for everyone.
According to property listing site PropertyGuru, Penang property scene has been booming but still, anybody considering a rental property in Penang might need to consider the advantages and disadvantages of owning a rental property. It's not the same for everybody, but rather it functioned admirably for some people.With that stated, the accompanying are a portion of the best advantages and disadvantages of owning a rental condo in Penang, Malaysia.

Advantages of owning a rental property

Pride of ownership 

When you claim something, be it a house, auto or another unmistakable resource, you can feel pleased that the question has a place with you. Knowing you possess something, regardless of its state, fulfills you feel. As a proprietor, you have control over your property. You can make whatever upgrades you see fit, paint the place whatever shading you like and choose the property's future.

Tax benefits

Rental properties permit you to claim to impose conclusions. You can discount the rental property's devaluation, which alludes to the measure of significant worth an advantage loses after some time. Any changes or repairs you make the most of additionally as assessment reasoning. If you pay a home loan or have whatever other working costs to keep the rental property tenable, you can guarantee those duty conclusions also. Indeed, even robbery, harm or annihilation to the property can give you an expense end.

Passive income from renters

Many individuals wish they could acquire cash without working. Owning a rental property offers you directly such an open door. Rental properties can profit without much exertion on your part. For whatever length of time that you do your part to keep the property in excellent condition, for example, dealing with upkeep issues when they emerge, you won't have to exhaust primarily cash or vitality towards making your speculation productive. 

Income from property value growth

Another advantage of owning a rental property is appreciation. Numerous people buy properties trusting that in the following couple of years, the general cost of the asset will acknowledge in esteem. Shockingly, thankfulness is not ensured. In more rustic and rural ranges, there might be expansion making the value diminish with time. For stable zones, for example, urban areas, the odds of unfaltering thankfulness are more prominent.

A rental property may likewise give tax reductions if you don't get net income after costs are deducted. Accordingly, your home loan is being paid down for you by a tenant, you don't need to pay assesses on this cash, and you claim a greater amount of the aggregate estimation of the property. Another tax cut that proprietors can exploit is called tax-exempt trade. The procedure permits you to abstain from paying expenses on the offer of a rental property on the off chance that you provide it and reinvest in another property.

Disadvantages of owning a rental property

Not Money in your Pocket 

The huge thing is to recollect that having a home loan on two homes implies that your rental wage won't be cash in your pocket. For instance, on the off chance that you possess a rental property with a $700 home loan and charge your occupants $1000 every month, you may accept that you are currently benefiting $300 every month. Sort of, however not by any means. You have to spare all that money so that when something turns out badly with that house, you can settle it for your inhabitants. You additionally need to stockpile that on the off chance that your occupants empty the property and it takes you longer than you suspected to locate another inhabitant. That cash is ordinarily not only cash in your pocket on the off chance that you have a home loan.

Being on Call all the Time

The second something breaks, you need to settle it. Trust it when you hear that nearly occupants will call you at 3 am if their boiling water isn't working or if their aeration and cooling system quits working, and they'll call you. They'll call about everything, and you should deal with it immediately. That can be a touch of an issue now and again.

Tenants

Apparently, you require somebody to live in your home, or it doesn't turn into a rental. Be that as it may, despite the fact that you may deliberately vet your occupants, there is dependably the stress that they won't enjoy your home. All things considered, it's not theirs, and the prospect of losing a little store may not by any stretch of the imagination trouble them if they put a gap in the divider or harm your cover or your windows. In their psyches, this is your issue; not theirs.

Tenant Risk 

There are consistently limited possibilities when you pick leaseholders that they won't pay their lease, and in many spots, it can be a significant battle to remove an inhabitant of property. It's costly, and it could cost you months of rental salary and legitimate expenses to kick out a resident who is not paying their lease, and that implies genuine budgetary issues for anybody with a rental property. This guide from The Balance clearly depicts the tips for choosing the right tenants.

Owning Two Homes

Much the same as owning more than one home can be an extraordinarily preferred standpoint; it can likewise be not as much as astounding. For instance, you have two homes to keep up, repair and keep up. That is two septic frameworks to have cleaned, two rooftops to supplant, two arrangements of machines that could require substitution whenever. It's two of everything, and that implies twofold the cost. This is regularly a major ordeal for a few people in Penang, Malaysia, and it's one reason that a few need nothing to do with owning rental pay properties when they advance into the universe of land speculation, home purchasing and pay potential as a method for beginning their own particular business.

15 comments:

  1. Apa-apa pun akak lagi suka KL lah, Nani ^_^

    Ni tetiba aje menulis tentang property, ads job eh? Hehehe!

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    1. Kalau dah lama dekat satu tempat tu, memang susah kan kak nak beralih arah. Heheheh :D

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  2. beria akak baca, almamklum english agak ke laut huhuhu

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  3. Rumah dekat Penang mahal-mahal. That's why ramai orang Cina je yang majoriti duduk di sana.Tapi terpulangla kan ada duit boleh je beli rumah kat sana.

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    1. Setuju! Apa apa pun tengok kemampuan sendiri kak lagi lagi bila bab harta semua ni :)

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  4. To have a property in Penang is awesome, from my point of view. The value is getting higher day by day and I think it is better to start with low cost flat right?

    Hehe reading the tenant part... wow, it depends on whether the rental is for monthly or per requests. As a tenant myself, I don't call my landlord at 3am hehe

    All in all, the most important thing, landlord and tenant need to have mutual agreement and refer to that paper if anything happen. Thanks Nani for this post!

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    1. Agreed too! It is good to have our own asset like house, land because the value of all these things are getting higher day by day. Hopefully I could have at least my own house before 30 yrs old :)

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  5. Siqah teringin nak pergi Penang untuk jalan-jalan je. Takde plan nak beli property kat sana. Tapi harga rumah sekarang mahal. Nangis tengok harga 😭 Plan nak ada rumah sebelum umur 30 tapi sekarang dah 31 dan masih menyewa 😢

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    1. Lepas ni boleh lah letak Penang dalam list JJCM. Memang syok jalan jalan sana, kalau pergi sekejap memang tak puas. Hahah! Kannn, rumah sekarang memang makin mahal. Nak tak nak, kena jugak menabung sikit2 kalau nak beli rumah sendiri.

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  6. sebagai orang yang duduk Penang.. CT rasa memang pelaburan terbaik beli rumah kat sana. tapi sementara nak melabur tu memang ongkos yang lebur pun banyak. rumah tak ada murah2 hehehe..

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    1. Memang Siti, sekarang ni dekat mana mana sekali pun rumah makin mahal. Heheh. Kena jugak buat tabung khas kalau nak beli rumah sendiri ni :)

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  7. Kak duk penang pun nak pindah pi duk tempat lain tp pas pencen lah haha

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    1. Hahah! Okay lah tu kak, ubah angin pulak kan :)

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  8. This extra income can be extremely nice and if you have enough properties it would be a great way to supplement your job and to just live off of the rent money that you collect or have a mortgage company collect each and every month.
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