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[Sujenna]

With the new laws introduced a landlord cannot give a termination without a justifiable reason under the Residential Tenancies Act 2010, i.e renovations, family moving in etc.
What if my tenant is an absolute ass&^%$ and i just want them to leave when their lease is up if not before? It hardly seems fair when I own the property that I have to justify (perhaps by lying) by providing grounds not to renew their lease? I will have to get quotes for renovations to be done, even though I don’t want to do anything to the unit and prove that work has been done, just to get them out!
Tenants can apply to NCAT on retaliatory grounds and this surely just wastes everyone’s time, including the tribunal, when the best remedy is for them to move and find somewhere else to live?

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[strataact]

Can’t you just give notice to vacate on the end date of the fixed term lease, within the appropriate time of the lease ?

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[Sujenna]

NO! The tenant has 30 days in which to lodge a response complaint with NCAT on the Notice of Termination is served, that retaliatory action is being taken against them by the landlord. Every day this tenant of mine has a litany of petty complaints to the property manager which range from I should pay her parking fines for over staying parking in the street, to the garbage men making so much noise emptying the bins that it wakens her baby!. The last PM terminated the managing agreement and I had to find a new agency to manage. The law is an ass in that their really is not such a thing as ‘no grounds termination’. A landlord would not wish to terminate a good tenant if they did not have some sort of reason for doing so would they?
I just want to be rid of these bods and find the hoops I have to go through ludicrous now that the law has changed in tenants favour.

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[Uberowner]

Does the PM feel it’s necessary to reply to every complaint on the day it arrives? How about getting the PM to tell the tenant that any crises such as plumbing leaks will be dealt with asap, but other requests will be addressed as a batch, once a week. Maybe waiting for a reply will discourage the behaviour.

Could also be a mental health issue – lonely people will sometimes clamour for attention in dysfunctional ways.

I’d be asking about the reference checks that the former PM undertook.
You have my sympathy. Now that it’s so difficult to move a tenant on, those reference checks are no longer a quick tick-in-the-box that can be left to the PM’s junior assistant. They are as important as checking income and capacity to pay, if not more so.

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