You can do the following to earn living in Malaysia:
– You can open or invest in a business,
– You work freelance or take up contract based project.
– You can work part-time in a company.
– You can invest in property and give it out for rent. Or you can rent out any extra space that you own through apps like Airbnb or Homestay.
– You can take up online jobs such as customer service representative, editor, writer, designer etc.
– You can sell products online on websites like Lazada and Shopee

And there are many other jobs you can explore according to your interest that doesn’t require full-time employment

As a foreigner you can open business or invest in a company. You can also become a shareholder or director of the company. What you cannot do is to hold a position of full time employee under your business. This is because full-time employment is no allowed under MM2H Sarawak visa.

Yes, you can buy and own property in Malaysia. One clear advantage of MM2H visa is that it provides cheaper price tags for property purchase. For example in Sarawak state, a foreigner cannot purchase property less than RM 500,000. But MM2H visa holders can purchase property as low as RM 300,000 minimum. In Kedah, there is no minimum purchase price on properties bought by MM2H visa holders. In Perak, the minimum price is RM 350,000 as opposed to the RM 1 million for non-MM2H visa holders. In Penang, the minimum price drops to RM 500,000 although that’s limited to a maximum of 2 units.

See the full chart in blog section.