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Having started this particular fight, I just wanted to make a couple of observations. Firstly they are plenty of circumstances in which short term lets work well – I’m thinking of holiday flats where the regular summer visitors are known to the permanent residents. Then there are increasingly popular systems like Air B&B where the accommodation is rated (as in Tripadvisor.com) but the guest is also reviewed by previous landlords.
The problem isn’t that strata control freaks want blanket laws that prevent the slightest infraction by landlords and their tenants, it’s that the absence of such draconian measures allows opportunist parasites to make their inflated rents at everyone else’s expense.
The answer is to make landlords responsible for the behaviour of their tenants, past present and future (and this applies to long-term tenants too). If there are no problems with a let, then there is no problem.
However, if a landlord allows tenants to cause disruption in a building, owners should be able to fast-track an order at the CTTT telling them to make sure this doesn’t happen again or face fines of up to $5500. And if they persist, then the CTTT should be able to firstly fine them and then order that apartment may not be let to anyone under any circumstances for the next, say, two years.
This will force the careless landlord to sell the apartment to owner-occupiers. Problem solved.