// Let's warm up
Show of
hands.
// Question 01
Who here is renting out a property right now?
Whole unit · Airbnb · by room
// Question 02
Heard of co-living?
// Question 03
Heard of bilik sewa?
// Question 04
KK property investment — who thinks Airbnb first?
// The one question
What if Airbnb is not the only opportunity in KK?
Property investment is not one-size-fits-all.
01AirbnbShort-stay
02Whole unitLong-stay rental
03Room / co-livingThe one we'll talk about
// Where this comes from
Not a report.
The ground.
Actual rooms
Actual listings
Actual students
Actual parents
Actual owners
Actual conversations
// Your host
CJ Teoh
Co-founder & Chief Business Officer
4,500
spaces under management
We turn units into income-generating rental assets — right renovation, right strategy, professional management.
// SHAREDA Property Expo · Kota Kinabalu
From Skepticism to Opportunity
What we found in KK's rental market
// Real talk
Honestly? At first we were skeptical.
Can room rental — can co-living — really work in KK?
// The project · Alamesra
Kayana Heights
Student market
Education nearby
Working adults
"Mini Putrajaya" crowd
There is a real accommodation need. But the room options surprised us.
// You be the judge
How much would you pay for this room?
// Now switch seats
You're the parent. Your child is far from home.
Would you let them stay here?
ROOM DEMANDBig.
SUPPLY QUALITYDoesn't match.
The students are there. The parents are willing to pay. But there's no good rental product.
// Straight from the street
// A2 launch · a true story
A parent rented a whole unit — just to avoid the rooms.
RM1,800/ month — for one student
Not for the space. Not because it was cheaper. Because no room felt proper enough.
The issue isn't demand.
It's whether a proper product exists.
That gap — is the whole story.
Where there's a gap,
there's opportunity.
And there's money.
// A bilik sewa we found
One room — how much?
A bare room. StillRM600
So what happens if we make it proper?
// Now make it a product
What if the room looks like this?
What rent?
What tenant?
What confidence for the owner?
// The mindset shift
In KK, room rental isn't new.
Doing it better is the opportunity.
Better version of bilik sewa
Co-living.
Same same — but different.
Bilik sewaKopi-O beng at the kopitiam
vs
Co-livingIced Americano at Starbucks
quick maths...
Room 1 — RM600
Room 2 — RM700
Room 3 — RM650
Room 4 — RM750
Room 5 — RM800
Total = RM3,500 /mth 🤑
// You're already doing the math
Sounds like easy money, right?
"Easy money" is exactly how people
lose money.
ACT 2 · THE REALITY
Welcome to
the circus.
You don't just get tenants. You get characters.
Free TVB, every single day. No subscription.
// Case file · 01
"Let me in — I need to feed my goldfish."
The goldfish hungry. But the rent also hungry, my friend.
// Case file · 02
She broke in through the balcony. Like Spiderman.
Even Spiderman cannot escape the invoice.
// Case file · 03
"Female tenants are easier"?
Same same, my friend.
// Case file · 04
The lift wasn't even ours.
When people are emotional, you are the nearest face.
Owners — are you ready for all this?
For us, this is daily drama we handle.
// Sometimes it escalates
Then they take you to court.
// Case file · 05 · tribunal
One cockroach. Compensation demanded:
RM10,000
She got zero. And we asked her to move out.
// The one that changed us
This one isn't funny.
From that day, “cleansing” a unit became our SOP.
Managing property is not only spreadsheets and yield.
Done right, it's passive income.
Done wrong?
Headache-living.
ACT 3 · THE BRIDGE
How does
manage all this?
System + Technology.
// The system, running
01Rental collection automation
02Tenant access control
03Maintenance & issue tracking
Nothing runs on memory.
It runs on system.
// Nobody else here is doing this
AI reads the mood of every conversation.
Tenant getting unhappy? Owner not satisfied? The system pings my team on Lark — we act before the goldfish guy becomes a court case.
JUSTRenting out rooms
PROFESSIONALLYOperating co-living
That gap — is the whole difference.
In KK, it's not only Airbnb.
01Airbnb
02Whole unit
03Co-livingdone properly
Two ways to learn co-living.
THE HARD WAYYears, court cases & sleepless nights
THE EASY WAYTalk to people who already learned it
We're ready to serve KK.
Let's do it properly, together.
Thank you.