No One Wants to Rent Your Property

Let's look at the most common problem in property rental and see if we can learn from it to avoid the same mistake the most investors do. Probably we can also learn how to survive with the bad decision that we have made.

The root cause of empty rental property would probably due to the "poor location". You're probably attracted by the cheaper price property. But you need to pay price too because the cheaper houses are usually located far away from the crowded area. Unless you're expecting the area to grow, then you probably still can put a bet on it.

If you want to able to rent out your properties 365 days a year, you have to buy properties in areas where there are a lot of jobs, a large variety of jobs. These are usually in a big towns and cities. For example, Klang Valley, Damansara, Subang Jaya, USJ and Penang in Malaysia. This applies to all countries in the world in fact. Too expensive you may ask? Then buy apartment instead of landed property.

The second factor of causing empty rental property is high rentals. It is a common sense when a demand is low and you can't get a business, what will you do? Of course lower your rentals, study your competitors rental fees and set your rental fees probably 5%-10% lower then them. I bet some tenants will start calling you soon. It is still better to let it empty right?

But if I were you, I would find a chance to sell that property and buy another one where located in more crowded area. Having said that, the first step is to lower your rental fees when you soon realize you''re not able to rent out your property. This is to minimize the lost.

p/s: I don't rent out my property yet due to the disagreement from family. Life is challenging (be positive) especially when a decision is no longer can be decided by your own. :)

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Worldwide Top 50 Semiconductor by Growth Rate in 2006

If you're working for semiconductor company, hope your company is listed here. The table shows the worldwide top 50 semiconductor sales leaders ranked by growth rate in 2006:

2006 Rank	Company	Headquarters	2005 Tot Semi	2006 Tot Semi	06/05 % Change
1	ProMOS	Taiwan	916	1,845	101%
2	Elpida	Japan	1,954	3,474	78%
3	Powerchip	Taiwan	1,603	2,829	76%
4	Qimonda	Europe	3,423	5,413	58%
5	Nanya	Taiwan	1,546	2,307	49%
6	AMD	U.S.	3,936	5,649	44%
7	Hynix	South Korea	5,599	8,009	43%
8	SanDisk**	U.S.	2,067	2,927	42%
9	Sony	Japan	4,223	5,804	37%
10	Broadcom**	U.S.	2,671	3,668	37%
11	Chartered*	Singapore	1,132	1,528	35%
12	Marvell**	U.S.	1,631	2,198	35%
13	Spansion	U.S.	2,003	2,579	29%
14	Qualcomm**	U.S.	3,457	4,422	28%
15	Nvidia**	U.S.	2,353	2,980	27%
16	SMIC*	China	1,183	1,455	23%
17	ON Semi	U.S.	1,261	1,532	21%
18	Maxim	U.S.	1,670	1,990	19%
19	TSMC*	Taiwan	8,217	9,748	19%
20	TI	U.S.	11,300	13,200	17%
21	Fairchild	U.S.	1,426	1,651	16%
22	Altera**	U.S.	1,124	1,286	14%
23	Vishay (incl. Siliconix)	U.S.	1,142	1,305	14%
24	Xilinx**	U.S.	1,645	1,872	14%
25	Mitsubishi	Japan	1,345	1,530	14%
26	IBM	U.S.	3,495	3,955	13%
27	UMC*	Taiwan	3,259	3,670	13%
28	MediaTek**	Taiwan	1,444	1,626	13%
29	Micron	U.S.	4,954	5,520	11%
30	ST	Europe	8,870	9,854	11%
31	Samsung	South Korea	17,838	19,670	10%
32	Fujitsu	Japan	3,500	3,858	10%
33	Analog Devices	U.S.	2,370	2,587	9%
34	Toshiba	Japan	9,045	9,782	8%
35	Freescale	U.S.	5,598	6,049	8%
36	Infineon	Europe	4,874	5,120	5%
37	National	U.S.	1,939	2,027	5%
38	Atmel	U.S.	1,676	1,751	4%
39	NXP (former Philips)	Europe	5,646	5,874	4%
40	NEC	Japan	5,593	5,685	2%
41	Rohm	Japan	2,813	2,850	1%
42	Sharp	Japan	3,430	3,471	1%
43	Sanyo	Japan	1,715	1,640	-4%
44	Renesas	Japan	8,266	7,900	-4%
45	Matsushita	Japan	4,097	3,835	-6%
46	Intel	U.S.	35,395	32,268	-9%
47	Oki	Japan	1,770	1,590	-10%
48	Agere**(Merging w/LSI)	U.S.	1,735	1,525	-12%
49	Avago**	U.S.	1,825	1,588	-13%
50	ATI** (Purch. By AMD)	Canada	1,810	1,350	-25%

*Foundry **Fabless
Source: IC Insights
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