Turning The Vacant House In Ipoh Into A Home Stay Guest House? – Part 1

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The other day, I was googling ‘Houses in Ipoh’ to check the market price and popularity of my housing area. Wow, I was surprised to find that one of my neighbors’ house had been turned into a home stay guest house!

A home stay guest house! Good idea, man! Why didn’t it come across my mind at all? I can actually turn my own vacant house into a home stay guest house.

Speaking of my double-storey house in Ipoh, it’s been vacant for many years. We bought it in 2002 when hubby and I were still working and living in KL. We had lived in that house for a few months or so before we moved to Cameron Highlands.

While living and working in CH, we stopped going back to this house in Ipoh. Instead, we went back to the wooden house in Gopeng.

Wow, you may think that we have so many houses! Actually the old house in Gopeng belongs to hubby’s brothers who have been working and living in other states. So, the old house in Gopeng is not ours.

Any house in CH? Noop, we rented a single-storey house for the first two years and then moved to a condo. Hubby and I never had the intention to live the rest of our lives there, so there’s no point buying a house there.

Coming back to our house in Ipoh, why didn’t we rent it out and use the rental to pay the housing loan? Well, firstly, the rental in Ipoh is quite low, at least 50% less than KL’s property rental price.

It’s between RM300 and RM400 for a double-storey house of 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and 2 kitchens in my housing area.

Besides, the parqueted bedrooms and cabinets were still new when we bought it from the first owner. Oh, there were also hubby’s antique furniture pieces which he had collected in Kuala Lumpur!

Would tenants take care of them as theirs? No way, right? Thinking that the maintenance fee for the house and furniture would be more than the rental collected, hubby and I decided not to let it out.

Now that there is this idea of turning the house into a home stay guest house and renting it out a few days a month, hubby should really consider it.

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