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Hi You can seek a mutual termination without penalty but this must be agreed to upon the tenants and the landlord and a date set. It depends what they want vacant possession for and depending on this, it may be really easy to agree to an earlier vacate date. But best to discuss it with...

That's terrible. QCAT here in QLD is ruling the same. Very unpredictable and very tenant favoured. Best to do everything to cover your butt as you never know. Thanks for the reminder though - it's on my list of things to do today to follow up landlords regarding maintenance requests...

You can charge a tenant for water usage but if the property is not certified as being "Water Efficient", you can only charge for excess usage. Our rate is usage for the tenant of anything of 30KL per quarter. This 30KL is what our local area deemed as average usage etc. So the landlord pays...

We do the same as Wylie. We always encourage our landlords to have a treatment done prior to new tenants and stipulate in our tenancy agreements that our tenants have it treated when vacate and provide a receipt to our office. However, if challenged, it would be interesting. The Act...

My favourite one; I was heavily pregnant and conducting a Routine Inspection at a nearby property to our office. We do the usual protocol; correct notice, a text message the day before to remind the tenant. When I arrived, I knocked and waited. No answer. So I opened the door with our...