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I have always said this too, but now we have organised our IPs to be signed up for $49 for the first year and (I think) $69 from then on, I'm happy to hand over this job to someone. I still have to diarise the follow up and email and organise an inspection when we have a tenancy changeover, but...

Agree... And I must ensure I tell the company of new leases etc. it is not a "hand it over completely" scenario at all. Funny though that we have probably saved the first years cost by not paying our sparkie to swap over a faulty alarm that went into our own house. SAS comes out to replace...

The report states "As the legal representatives of landlords who, under lease terms, have responsibility for smoke alarms, agents could find themselves challenged in court if failure to provide or maintain alarms was found to be a contributing factor in a case involving loss of life or property...

In Queensland, according to the RTA the landlord checks the smoke alarm and changes batteries at the start of each lease and at renewal.

I would guess that until it is written into the legislation, then testing by pressing the "test" button is all that is required. We always looked after this for our IPs until a few months ago. I hate paying for something that I can do myself, but now I've moved everything to Smoke Alarm...