Recent content by priscilla

You may not agree and I am not suggesting this is the way you or anyone else on this forum would act ... but we deal with this type of attitude every day .... and to answer your original question I and many other REA's do have a conscience and work hard to improve our skills and the industry as...

Problem is here when we tell the truth and give the realistic rental value - it is never what the Property Investor wants to hear......and the business usually goes to a competing agency who are prepared to lie .....just saying...

The onus is on the Landlord to maintain the smoke alarm - including changing the batteries and testing prior to a new tenant moving in. The PM's job is to ensure the Landlord knows this is their resposibility and where required to engage tradespeople to undertake this work. I would definately...

I cannot agree that a Property Manager spends an average of 1 hour a monh on your property! Maybe thats what your agency did but I certainly would not think that is an industry average we would spend considerably more than that on each property on average. In Sydney with the average management...

The main problem is that each Landlord has different expectations of how a routine inspection should be carried out and how any 'issues' should be dealt with. Some require a basic overview of the condition of the property and only want the tenant contacted with more major things, other Landlords...

This is such poor advice. Its already been stated that the gutters are being cleaned twice a year, the tenant has no grounds to withold rent monies for cleaning - all that will potentially happen here is the tenant will end up with constant arrears and a poor payment history. If the tenant...

If the property is uninhabitable it may be treated as a frustrated lease (this is NSW legislation) and the Residential Tenancy Agreement could be terminated. Residential Tenancies Act 2010 No 42 109 Agreement frustrated—destruction of, or uninhabitable, premises (1) This section...

Why is it so hard for YOU to understand that your hugely flawed system still gives the business to the agent who gives the highest price not the honest agent - and potentially loses the Vendor money as the property is on the market for an extended period at an inflated price therefore giving it...

This seems like a contradictory statement -first you say pick the agent who says they can get the highest price - then you say you can pick the highest quoting agent but waste time marketing...... For a Vendor to pick the highest quoting agent if they can't back up their quote with evidence...

Depends on the privacy level the tenants will have, obviously if they are not sharing anything this helps a lot. The granny flats are always fairly easy to rent but often the houses take longer than a stand alone home with a standard back yard. My comments are a generalisation obviously there...

This is very true, many of the homes which are hard to lease and have longer vacancy periods also have graany flats in the back yard....most tenants don't like the thought of such a lack of privacy or the thought of sharing driveways/yards etc.

There has been considerable work done on Toongabbie Creek in the last 20 years. Last time it flooded was 1988 they say it won't flood again.....who knows best thing to check the 149 certificate in the contract and see if there is any mention on flood zone and/or speak to the council.

We have found the rental market in Western Sydney (Parramatta/Blacktown areas) was quite slow all last year there were fewer viewers and fewer quality applicants with more properties to choose from. High quality tenants were snapped up quickly as they often had applications on more than one...

Why would a PM want to take this on?? So they can get threatened and intimidated!! Chances are Landlords who self manage will have the PM deal with getting the bad tenant out then take the property back and self manage again. Not all business is good business and most GOOD PM businesses would...

I am of the belief (and am happy to be corrected) that it could be risky to rescind based on any other grounds than exercising your right of recission under the cooling off period (and as such losing your 0.25% deposit)...meaning if you rescind the contract based on inconsistencies in the...