#24696
Millie
Flatchatter

    The Tenants Union should be backing a change to the (NSW) Residential Tenancies Act – Section 8 – Agreements to which the Act does not apply by deleting:

    c) agreement under which a person boards or lodges with another person.

    Boarders and lodges should be granted the same protection under the Act plus be subject to the same obligations under the Act. I thought the NSW Government was considering this as a key component to a review they recently undertook – goodness knows if anything came of it?

    This means that people can rent that spare room, offering it to someone who needs a home, and hey presto, earn that extra money they claim they need.  

    And let me tell you, there’s an enourmous difference between the young couple who now rent the spare room from the guy down the corridor, compared to the holiday/party animals who use to be in and out of here thanks to his Airbnb listings.  We’ve got neighbours now, not short-stays who couldn’t give a toss about us and our building.

    Keep Airbnb and other short holiday lets out of residential properties.  Can’t people see what’s happening to our residential housing stock?

    There’s a fundamental incompatibility mixing short-stays with permanent residents – and so judges the NSW Land and Environment Court in multiple examples of case law.  Throw that back at the Tenants Union of Victoria.

    And just wait until the complaints start from all the tenants who have been turfed out of properties so that landlords can get higher rent from tourists.  This is happening repeatedly all over the USA and Europe.  Hello Tenants Union – what will you do then?