Podcast: Pets & renters, prices and owner revolts
This week’s podcast has placed a ban on the C-word … no, not that one, the other one that’s filling our news bulletins on radio and TV and clogging up…
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Call for landlord blacklist to warn would-be tenants
Bad landlords could soon find themselves on a “blacklist” if tenant Rachel Black has her way. Rachel, also a landlord herself, has launched a petition to the NSW Parliament, supported…
Forum: Landlady dives in before tenant has left
When does a residential lease end? According to the standard lease (in Victoria) it’s on the date when the lease expires, unless a different arrangement is agreed. According to Tenants…
Will tenants be tempted by no-strata-hassle living?
There’s the smell of freshly made coffee and baking cookies wafting through the doorway of a building boasting rental apartments inside, writes Sue Williams, in a recent article in Domain.…
Rental as anything – new app by-passes agents
New research has revealed that both tenants and landlords believe unhelpful real estate agents are among the biggest obstacles to their happy co-existence. Research commissioned by the founders of a…
From the Forum: Landlady too nice for her own good
There are times when I think some of our Flatchatters are just too nice for their own good. Take this week’s first correspondent whose tenant has been illegally parking his…
Why ‘no-cause’ evictions are bad for everyone
When the NSW government brought in its raft of changes to tenancy laws at the end of last year, the headline grabbing issues were new provisions to protect the victims…
Just what we need – another crowd cashes in on the Airbnb boom
We received a press release last week from a UK-based company called Airsorted. They are promising to make it easier for you to let out – sorry, “share” – your…
Why lazy landlords end up with terrible tenants
If you are a landlord – or the less feudal term ‘property investor’ – do you think of your tenants as assets or liabilities? You might worry about getting bad…
Roundup: Car hits wall, insurer slugs tenant. Who pays?
There’s a post in the Forum this week that should warm the cockles of your heart – but I’m afraid it just has steam coming out of my ears. A…
Ghost tenants make a myth of rental reform
Resident owners paranoid about tenants taking over strata schemes don’t need to go to the barricades just yet. There’s a fairly massive hole in the government’s laudable plans to give tenants…
A ‘wee’ noise problem keeps strata owner awake
We all have to put up with some level of neighbour noise in apartments, but it shouldn’t be anything that disturbs us or, even worse, keeps us awake at night.…