Recent content by laowra

Ew. Fussy tenants... Just be thankful you didn't put them in your property... "my fridge doesnt fit and we need to break the lease" Or constant whinging about the neighbours not mowing, and of course, they would expect you to remedy this! painful.

I'm a little bit confused - why did you want to PM to inspect the property? To do a rental val? If you are not happy with the service, speak with them about it. At the end of the day, you are engaging them to manage more properties for you, I would think they would jump at the chance?!

Be careful.. you can't legally charge the tenants to maintain the garden. I realise you may market your property at a higher rent so you can include a gardener in the cost "at your expense", I wouldn't make this known to the tenant you put in the property that you have priced it higher for this...

Find out why he is paying late (if he returns your calls). It could be to do with his salary coming in on a certain date? Give him the option to change his rent due date and have him pay a once off amount adjusting the rent to a new due date. If you cannot find out the reason or if he avoids...

The rental history checks are probably for "National Tenancy Database". NTD charge around $15 per person to do the check. This charge would be passed on to you by the PM. $110 advertising - websites the PM uses could charge them in bulk or per upload. They may also charge for an advertising For...

There's nothing in the Act that says that a tenant can't have a pet. The PM can send a Breach of Duty notice to the tenants, however if the matter was to go further and you decided to take the tenants to VCAT - unless you could prove that the cat was a nuisance or causing damage, VCAT would...