Rooms For Rent Not A Problem Anymore

This is the third year that my son is staying in Penang.  During his first year he stayed in the college hostel sharing with another friend and they paid RM520 for a room.  After staying for a year, he and his friends decided to rent an apartment near to the college and they have been staying there since.  The contract is going to expire soon this year and the landlord has been hinting that he will increase their rental once the contract expires.  Due to the high pricing of property in Penang, most of the apartments are fetching higher rentals.  The poor students, they are hoping that their landlord will not increase too much.  They had a discussion among themselves and my son told me that they will not rent an apartment anymore but instead will go separate ways to look for individual rooms instead.   That might be cheaper than renting a whole apartment but then my son said that he and his friends will have to go separate ways once they opt for rooms for rent.

As a mother, I am very concerned about where he stays, who he stays with and the environment he is in.  I told him not to worry about the increase of rental,  I believe that the landlord will not put a 100% increment on the present rent.  If he does, we have no choice but to go for websites that offer rooms for rent, for instance this one below.

They have a wide selection of rooms, houses, apartments to choose from, which area you need, as long as they are in Malaysia, the choices are there for you to check out.   I heard of this website from my friends who sent their kids to study or those who are working, they find this link so helpful in getting accommodation. 

Anyway, I hope that my son and his friends will continue staying in this present place, it is clean, safe and convenient, less than 5 minutes drive to their college.  If the new agreement is not agreeable to them, then I will advise them to look into this website for further choices.  One word of advice for them, once they find the place suitable and the rental is agreeable, they must sign up a two year agreement with the landlord instead of one year.   In this case, they do not have to worry about high rental after each year.