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Funny way of asking for people's opinions. If people like this got things right every time what need would we have for democracy? The problem with legislation like this is that it's not deemed particularly important so it doesn't get enough scrutiny by people other than these people. I...

It may or it may not. The market would determine the level of bond - which may still end up being four weeks for a lot of people. It just wouldn't HAVE to be four weeks. So if we agree that if something doesn't happen very often it can be removed completely from the RTA (as there aren't any...

Actually yes. Tenant advocates clearly have massive sway and political clout in developing this legislation - twenty years ago as well as now. The framing of the legislation pretty much dictates the court orders - the judiciary can't rule against the law, except on constitutional issues. As...

Does it matter how often it happens? As you state here... ...this never happens and yet there are provisions galore in the RTA about it. I can guarantee that malicious or negligent tenant damage happens far more often than the stuff above that would warrant the LL being fined. Maybe...

Fairness... BTW the other thing that really bothers me is the concept of "fairness" that keeps getting invoked. If I look at unregulated industrial property tenancies I find when massive multinational companies with huge corporate power deal with two dollar landlords with relatively...

And so did you have a response to Burb's excellent points? Or any plan to recover funds, in lieu of your assertion that higher bonds aren't realistic, from a tenant who has done a runner and left no forwarding address and doesn't care about their credit record? And please don't say landlord...

We've already been there. Burbs has done exactly this in the consultation process and at the beginning of this thread as well as in the middle of it. Belbo even had a go at it in this thread. As was predicted (and predictable) right at the start nothing came of it and pretty much all the...

Hi Belbo Nice post. Sure it's a complete fantasy but not a joke. It is my contention that it is government's role to ensure women and children (and men) are properly looked after in a civilised society and provided with food and shelter. It's not the role of private landlords. But we have...

No. I defined fairness on the part of the LL as letting the tenant have access to the property. That is all. Yes they can. That's what happens in a lot of commercial / industrial leases - tenants can only make alterations with the permission of the LL, not unreasonably withheld, at the...

We are discussing the unfairness of the law and you invoke fairness in the name of the same law? "The law is fair because that's what the law says is fair." Nice one... I believe it would be fair for LLs to be able to charge whatever bond the market will bear. And for tenants to maintain...

There are two parties to a lease: - The Landlord who promises to provide the Tenant with use and enjoyment of the property for the duration of the Lease; and - The Tenant who promises to pay the Rent on time and look after the property as if it were their own, for the duration of the Lease...

Really? I've seen some pretty unsmore ophisticated types.... Good thing I got myself an edumucation I guess! :) BTW, I don't agree. The RTA is a self fulfilling prophecy where tenants and LLs don't think about leases because they don't have to think about leases. If they all knew it...

Personally, I think much, if not all, of the RTA can be trashed. What is wrong with common law? Sure keep a tribunal system to streamline things but FFS let the market operate. For example, bonds should be able to be charged at what the market will bear and should sit in the LL's bank...

thatbum I suspect some drongo needs to take $5k out of your bank account because they: a) feel like it; and b) know how to work the system. Then you might start to understand. Loss of rent, malicious or negligent damage, pitiful bonds in comparison, constantly delayed payment...