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Yes, the wheels of the CTTT turn exceedingly slow … and with the uniformity of a superannuated shopping trolley. With that in mind, I have been challenged to back my claim that tenants could lose their homes for parking in visitors parking.
Quite simply, if tenants are in breach of by-laws, they are in breach of their lease. Also, if tenants are selfish and stupid enough to cause chaos in the parking garage, there’s a good chance this is not the only by-law they are breaking. Some tenants really do think they are above the by-laws … so what you do is remind the landlord that the legal precedent has been set in NSW that they are responsible for the behaviour of their tenants when they have been alerted to a problem and have failed to deal with it.
So every time you send a Notice To Comply to the tenant, you send one to the landlord too (forget all this three warnings nonsense – a Notice To Comply IS a warning). Pretty soon the landlord is going to get sick of the threats of fines and the Dukes of Hazzard, who have broken the terms of their lease, will be looking for a new garage to invade.
The threat to tenants who defiantly break or simply ignore by-laws is very real … and landlords and rental agents would do well to point that out.