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@JimmyT said:

@proxaccess said:
Nothing in NSW can be done to prevent short-term letting, especially not a building by-laws since nothing in the legislation allows owners corporations to prevent it … Not sure why you wrote that.  

I wrote it because it’s true and it was true even before the government announced the new legislation that will come in next year… to put the facts out there and counter the constant propaganda stream from those entities that are happy to disrupt and destroy  our communities for their own profits, regardless of the consequences to the majority of people who thought they were buying a home, not a hotel.   

Thank you for the information.

Really useful

We ran stats on AirBnB VIC and NSW by dumping AirBnB public database and made stats on them to find out where are the most listings per suburb and more. 

It’s actually clear that in suburbs subject to overcrowding in residential buildings, the slumlords are moving to Airbnb half of the year and the number almost double every year.

Real issue for Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD, is having ways to stop those slumlords to use premises for short-term letting.

They almost all renters and not landlords so it shouldn’t be that hard to stop them using rental units for short-term letting but it’s certainly not only with the help of the laws and regulations that it will go away.

Residential buildings must look at their way to protect their building accesses.

Surprising decision knowing that short term letting is directly linked to overcrowding issues in the Sydney CITY.
Knowing that the Sydney City council is employing 10 people to work against overcrowding issues since the last 2 years,(around $1.5M wages for a return of 170K fines) how come the council agrees with AirBnB!

This is a total contradiction!

When you have a problem with your rental agent you can simply go to the NCAT.

May I ask you what sort of security keys you are talking about?

Metal key or key fobs?

To get into a building you need an access card/fob or to use the intercom.

If you have extra tenants then you need them to be able to get into the unit thus you give them an access card/fob, but it’s limited, 2 bedroom = 4 access card/fob etc..

So what the slumlord will do if he has 6 extra tenants?

He will buy or make himself duplicated access card/fob  for his extra tenants or he will install a machine called Black Box into the unit intercom receiver so the receiver can open the lobby door and lift level without having to physically press the button Open.

If the proper security access control is installed then you have all extra tenants in big difficulties to get into the units.

They won’t stay.

@Martyn said:
Most of us are familiar with the difficulty in managing overcrowding, with is largely dependant on the co-operation of all involved, setting aside their vested interests.
I was wondering whether an arrow to the bow could be the targeting of advertising. Fulfillment of overcrowded apartments is largely conducted through advertisements on various websites. Some are more explicit than others, ranging from actual addresses, email, phone, phone, tenant name and explicit acknowledgement of overcrowding through to proxies/agents, nicknames, “anonymous” email addresses etc. Price is usually the only common factor from which you can reasonably judge how many occupants you can expect.
Is it illegal for a tenant(or their agents) to advertise over occupancy and/or would a by-law to that effect hold any validity? I am not looking for a legality that will wind your way through the justice system, just an indication that it is enforceable and could be used as a tool for the removal of tenants who overcrowd. To my mind this will assist in overcoming one of the hurdles in prosecuting overcrowding, physical evidence. With notice usually required for tenants many attempts to sight physical evidence are effectively neutered(often with the assistance of compliant agents).
I appreciate some prosecutions may end up in a bun fight at the CTTT but to my mind it would be a reasonably effective weapon where these people are most exposed ie outside their apartments explicitly advertising on websites
Any experiences to this effect would be appreciated

This is a very good question that you are asking Martyn however spying on slumlords isn’t the solution but it’s working too.

Think like the slumlords and you will know what to do to stop them.

My company has been fighting Slumlords for more than 4 years and found out what make them go away from a building.

You can manage to find out where are the overcrowded units in your building but it’s going to be a very difficult task. Most of slumlords are advertising on OZI, THai, CHinese, Indo, Korean etc.. classifieds ads websites

You can not find out directly overcrowded units of your buildings on classified ads websites because there is over 1300 slumlords in SYDNEY, many residential buildings, no ads if the slumlords isn’t looking for a new extra tenant, etc…

We do have techniques to find them easily and we know all the tricks but it is costing us over $800 week and more than 10 hours of office work to that. We are still doing it at least 1 week a month from our own pocket money. The council could actually do something very effective costing almost nothing but they don’t listen to our suggestions…

Anyway the matter is that most of buildings are using unsecured security access control, %98 here is SYDNEY, I’m saying 98% not by hazard, we have been walking into every singles buildings of the CBD.

Why buildings are using unsecured systems, some were and are still installed, years after the security leak was discovered?

This is happening because most of security installers in Australia have a big lack of security knowledge. There is no course in security access control that you have to follow to become an installer! Most of security installers are buying security systems without knowing how it works and can’t run any test to find out if it is secure or unsecure!

Building managers and strata managers usually bring their security installer friends to do the job despite the fact that the system that they are or will install is not secure and cannot perform its principal function of guaranteeing the safety of residents.

To give you a clear picture: You have an unsecured access control system in your building so you have slumlords copying the tags for their extra tenants.

If the slumlords can’t supply a tag to his extra tenants then the tenants are not going to stay there.

The problem is also with most of intercom system but it’s another topic.

What i will suggest you is to make sure that no more strata manager and building manager prospect or bring their security installer friend to install anything. Do not use security consultant but only security adviser with a licence.

Building manager or strata manager have no security electronic knowledge thus they should not take any decision about the access control system.

The body corporate should find themselves at least 4 different security installers and find more information about their electronic system instead of looking at what the neighbor is using, if it is cheap or if they big big big installation.

Proper systems are expensive, Having done big installation doesn’t mean anything specially is your installed something unsecured…

Intercom is very important too.

CCTV is out of the conversation knowing that there is no secure or unsecured CCTV system.

If you have any questions PV me.