Who writes this cr..
Do some research!
‘Partygate” is no more, the bad operator who allowed the parties in Melbourne has closed down.
The majority of the short term industry follow the “Code of Conduct”
Just think about this for a moment, why would I allow marauding schoolies, backpackers, football fans and bucks night in to my short term let to have it trashed.
You think I keep spare furniture in my back pocket.
No agent has ever revved me up or any of my friends who run short term, we do it because it allows us to keep control of our property while providing an accommodation choice other than a hotel.
Some facts:
“the growth in serviced apartments as a major form of tourist accommodation, representing at least 30 per cent of all short stay accommodation rooms in Australia’
Australian Government Productivity Commission Report – August 2010
To suggest that the poor long-term resident who finds him or herself outvoted by absentee landlords lured by the fast-buck agents promoting illegal rentals, is a bit over the top.
If you guys are lawyers, please explain how 30% of the market is illegal.
How selfish of us to want peace and quiet in our homes when there are owners who need to make a quick buck from their investment units – really, if you want peace and quiet, go and find a gum tree in the country, you will not get it in a city apartment, weather it be short or long term. At least with a short term guest I can evict them immediately, try and do that with a long term tenant that has doof doof next door to you – good luck.
Just read your other forum – Neighbour Noise, poor fellow – kept records of noise disturbances, obtained witness statements and finally went to mediation (at his expense) and eventually they got rid of the offending tenant –
With a short term let we can evict bad behaviour immediately.
As we have said many times in this column
1) Who is we?
2) Where do you live.
I live in Australia a democracy not some dictatorship that forces developers to build specific buildings for the fly-by-night tenants or did you mean people who prefer to stay in an apartment rather than a hotel, because they have a choice.
If you think short-term lets are warts on the face of residential apartment living and it’s time the government and local councils got together with the CTTT and burned them off, you should find another profession.