You now can be fined for your noisy tenants!

From SMH Article:

http://smh.domain.com.au/real-estat...-to-pay-for-rowdy-tenants-20110506-1ec3g.html

Photocopies stickytaped to city lamp posts offering dirt-cheap, shared-room rentals in luxury apartments could soon be a thing of the past after a landmark court ruling.

Previously, landlords who crammed partying backpackers and students into houses and apartments could ignore complaints about noise, passing them back to tenants who changed so often no one could be held responsible. But in a game-changing move, a noise-abatement order has been served on the owners, rather than their tenants, of a Double Bay apartment. The downstairs neighbours had complained for years of noise and disturbance.

Anyone breaching a noise-abatement order can face fines of up to $5500 as well as charges of contempt of court that could lead to jail terms.
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It seems ok for this case, but as a landlord it may be hard to determine how noisy your tenants are going to be from applications. If our tenants are noisy, does that mean landlords have a right to drop in to inspect or even evict tenants for their noise?
 
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The article states; 'Recent changes in the tenancy laws allowing landlords to demand written consent before tenants can sublet mean owners have even less excuse for not knowing who lives in a property.'

The fact that a landlord is not allowed to unreasonably withold permission to sublet would in my opinion suggest the opposite. We may know who's in there but we have less authority in the arrangement.

You can be assured that DoH will be exempt from this requirement as they are with many of the requirements applied to private landlords.

Regards

Andrew
 
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