Before you start to go and search for rooms, it will be wise for you to sit down and have an idea on the budget limit and also the minimum that you would like to put aside for your monthly room accomodation. Often landlords like myself are looking to provide you with details of a room that will suit your budget instead of informing you information on rooms that you cannot afford to rent. This will of course also save your phone bill in calling landlords on room details.

You may ask yourself, I do not know what is even the minimum amount that I need for a decent size room. This is where you will have to do some surface research on a similar size room in the area where you are looking to stay. Make a minimum comparisons of at least 5 available rooms and you will already be able to have an idea of the minimum rental that you would require. The variance between rooms would usually be the different facilities available such as free unlimited broadband internet wifi that is definetly a requirement at this day and age.

You will then be able to stay within your room accomodation budget as with the minimum and the maximum figures are already in your mind. Make the comparisons with the facilities that you really can’t leave without and make do with the others that are not as important. Do remember that you are only renting a room and not buying a house. The last thing you would like to face is the difficulty in paying your room rental to your landlord therefore budgeting is extremely important.

Do remember that there are different landlords with different terms and conditions upon renting a room such as room deposits (varys from one month to two months) depending on location of the rooms and also the country that you are in. There may also be other deposits like key deposits for keys that are lost and requires another set to be made by the landlord. Tenancy agreement legal fees and government stamping fees are also some of the other fees that you may in counter. Do always ask the landlord the procedure and all this deposit information way beforehand so as to avoiding a surprise once you have already fell in the love with the room of your dreams.

This article is written by Sean Lim, the owner of RoomToLetNow.Com the leader of room to let in Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.