These new tennent /Landlord arrangement, gives us the same laws as Victoria and Queensland.
A relative of mine runs a small property management company.Theres bad owners who refuse to maintain there propertys,even the replacement of a hot and water system.And abuse tennents privacy by going around to propertys without notice.
There's also terrible tennents who need to be constantly breached.For subletting rentals,not paying rent,late night party's.Not maintaining propertys and abusing and threatening property managers.
The Irish are supposed to be the worst tennents but there no 457's here atm.
Aparantly the balance between Owners and Tennents is quiet balanced under the current REBA act.This change will throw it all out of wack and create big problems.
I've been a Landlord for 30 years, see it all over that time, the most recent example was a few months ago, tenants (yes funny enough Irish) fell thousands behind in rent, I even gave them a chance to catch up, they abused that as well, in the end breached them and they did a mid night runner, the place was left a pig stye, they had kept a dog there in a two bedroom flat against the lease which they denied, dog crap all over the pace indoors, left a heap of busted furniture there, I had to hire a truck to take it all down the tip and then clean the place out, took days to get it cleaned.
The courts are useless chasing up the money, so you end up just writing it off.
The Act states its an offence for a Tenant to leave without a forwarding address, its NEVER enforced by Dept of Commerce.
Another thing, they changed the Act a while back making it illegal for Landlords to hold the bond, you now must deposit it in the Commerce Trust Account, and the only way you can get it out is by going to court, its $75 just to make the application, the tenant just has to say they oppose it and it drags on for months.
I've had numerous other examples, some even worse.
In the end you wonder if the whole things worth it.
