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  1. RumpledElf

    Hints and Tips for a new landlord

    I have a mentally unstable drug growing fella next door who is quite well behaved when his mother (who gets a carer's payment) is home with him. She's been gone for ages though and he's running riot ... I hope she hurries back because I've had this house for sale 6 months and that just happens...
  2. RumpledElf

    Hints and Tips for a new landlord

    Don't think many people use Gumtree. I've had a few responses from there, and a few from my ad in shop windows. Pretty much all the tear-off slips have gone but few phone and only two have inspected the place. Its a bit hard to say "yes, I know most houses in this town are total crap, but...
  3. RumpledElf

    Hints and Tips for a new landlord

    Its better than my gumtree ad lol The rental market is pretty low where I am - the woman who is likely to rent it when it is available next week (unless Suzlon get there first) found the house by a 2 inch square handwritten ad I stuck in the window of the general store because the owner told...
  4. RumpledElf

    Hints and Tips for a new landlord

    I googled and found all the SA forms and a tonne of information in a "Landlord's kit" on a government website, all laid out very easy to understand and find stuff. And as Y-man said, there's one in there (simply tagged "information brochure" in SA) that you're obliged to give the tenant. I'm...
  5. RumpledElf

    Hints and Tips for a new landlord

    Probably a good checklist for me too - I had a prospective tenant through today (the first to actually come see it), and with the available pool of renters here she'll probably get the house. Seems nice enough, wants long term, likes gardening. Has a small dog and 3 medium sized kids. I already...
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