Background
I purchased a property with a garage converted to granny flat. The structure has an approved certificate 149D as a garage/storage with bathroom, but not as a granny flat. Rented the main house and granny flat separately since. Insurance are all ok, the insurer knows that it's unapproved as granny flat. But because I rented both structures separately, I need to get 2 landlord insurance policies, which I did.
A week ago I received this letter from council saying that the structure is not approved for granny flat, so would need to cease renting it. I called council, but they said they couldn't provide advise in a matter they had issue notice on (not sure why). Talked more to several people, and heard that a possible way is to get something called a certificate of compliance to approve the habitation as granny flat.
Questions:
- How could I get these certificate of compliance? Who should I contact/engage? Will it be a certifier/surveyor/anyone else? How much will this approx. cost?
- What are my other options to make the granny-flat approved?
- I read one of the post (from Propertunity) re. council couldn't enforce tenant eviction. Just being cheeky here and hypothetically speaking, if the structure is approved (means council can't take it down), and council can't evict tenant, does it mean that I could continue renting the place out without council consent?
Look forward to your inputs guys...thanks!
I purchased a property with a garage converted to granny flat. The structure has an approved certificate 149D as a garage/storage with bathroom, but not as a granny flat. Rented the main house and granny flat separately since. Insurance are all ok, the insurer knows that it's unapproved as granny flat. But because I rented both structures separately, I need to get 2 landlord insurance policies, which I did.
A week ago I received this letter from council saying that the structure is not approved for granny flat, so would need to cease renting it. I called council, but they said they couldn't provide advise in a matter they had issue notice on (not sure why). Talked more to several people, and heard that a possible way is to get something called a certificate of compliance to approve the habitation as granny flat.
Questions:
- How could I get these certificate of compliance? Who should I contact/engage? Will it be a certifier/surveyor/anyone else? How much will this approx. cost?
- What are my other options to make the granny-flat approved?
- I read one of the post (from Propertunity) re. council couldn't enforce tenant eviction. Just being cheeky here and hypothetically speaking, if the structure is approved (means council can't take it down), and council can't evict tenant, does it mean that I could continue renting the place out without council consent?
Look forward to your inputs guys...thanks!
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