Letting fees. What the hell?

[Mom]

You can make an application to the tenancy tribunal as soon as you have delivered the 10 day notice to remedy. Yes it will cost you money and you will lose the money if the defect is remedied within the 10 days, but it really keeps the pressure on the other party.
I speak from experience.

I agree! Mind you, you should never be placed in that position in the first place, but there are remedies available to you under law. In my experience of property managing, the legislation is slanted towards the tenant though the arguement is, it is balanced. Tribunal is fairly cut and dried about these things, be prepared and win your case. I never lost one.

I have heard some horror stories of property managers and landlords being taken to task in tribunal in a big way, by a smart and organised tenant in a genuine case of the manager/owner should have been doing their job properly and wasn't. Dont put up with shit, deal with it. I am happy to help anyone tenant/owner to negotiate their way through tribunal processes.

[dino3310]

Wooly night shade is no match for this little noxious weed.
4 bedrooms, fecking big lounge, spa bath, good sized garage, and not in sububia. Kanny is even organising "adult toys" parties for her workmates there
Buggered if I'm gunna be around when that lot are boozing, and thrusting battery operated devices about.

spa bath,garage with mechanic, adult toy chick parties
fark mate do want a border sounds like utopia to me

[boman]

READ ALL MATERIAL SENT TO YOU BY THE AGENT, THOROUGHLY. Do not assume nothing. They stitched some people I know into a 5 year lease by discussing one lot of paperwork with them, and then sending out a long term agreement. They didnot read sent material and signed. They only found out when they went to leave after 2 years. The cost of living had driven them to move closer to work.

[GOONR]

NO see I will disgree here. Some property managers are the pits and should not be legally allowed to continue to do their job. I cant tell where you live at the moment, but there is no way you should have to put up with a leaking hotwater cylinder, let alone wait 6 months to get your oven fixed, that is totally unacceptable!

Sit down right now and write a letter to the person that manages your property. Head it up 10 day notice to remedy fault. Clearly state that despite informing them that your hotwater cylinder is leaking (potentially causing damage to the house) it has not been fixed. As the tenant your responsibility is to immediately notify the owner, or their agent of any fault, which you have done. Then say you expect the leak to be repaired within 10 days of the receipt of this notice. Sign it and deliver it to the agent.

By law (and this is dumb), you have to allow 4 working days notice for delivery, 2 days if you hand deliver it. Potentailly you will have to wait 14 working days to get your hotwater cylinder repaired if they are stupid enough to not sit up and fix it immediately. If they dont fix it within that time, ring 0800 tenancy and get an application to the Tenancy Tribunal. To make an application will cost you $20? Make sure you claim for the water that is dripping away (if you pay for water that is), for electricity bills paid to heat the water you have not used because it has dripped away, and a sizeable amount for inconvenience

I hate people that charge for a service and dont deliver.

Great post Mom.

I've been having a few hassles with the rental company that I have to deal with, only small stuff. I have asked them to fix a few things, they forget, I remind them, they forget.....

Now I am armed with knowledge... Cheers.

[FROSTY:Me]

you think as tenant you have worries.? try being the landlord dealing with dodgy agents. ARGGG
property inspection charges for inspections not done. Deductions from rent for emergency repairs to items that were repaired by the tenant parts supplied my moi

[GOONR]

you think as tenant you have worries.? try being the landlord dealing with dodgy agents. ARGGG
property inspection charges for inspections not done.

I know about inspections not done. I had an inspection due, letter turned up telling me that the agent would be round on such and such date... no show. I really don't know where some of these agents get off, the ones that I have had to deal with have been useless. I'm not saying that they are all like this, just the ones I've dealt with.

[tri boy]

spa bath,garage with mechanic, adult toy chick parties
fark mate do want a border sounds like utopia to me

Take a number and stand in line
(Got a txt message from Jamie, in Papua New Guinea aka mountlocal1. He is heading back for 4weeks in Sept, and he has dibs on one of the rooms for a month).
Actually ,this is the first post since me n kanny have been in the house. The broadband is way better here than the old place, (faster), and besides one lounge ceiling light trying to burn the roof out due to melted wiring, (circuit breaker works well), the rest is pretty good.
Will get the property agent onto a sparky on Monday, and start taking pics of the inside and outside also.
Pop around on Sunday, theirs some wooly stuff that needs your professional opinion.

[Sollyboy]

shouldnt it be the landlord that pays the letting fee , after all its a service he request from a realestate agent and he can rent his house out without an agent, it just seems odd that a lazy landlord can make someone else pay?

[BMWST?]

pretty sure a landlord would want the hot water cyclinder fixed pretty smart...the floor will be rotting!If its not a loose pipe the cylinder itself will have had it,and will have to be replaced.

[steve_t]

shouldnt it be the landlord that pays the letting fee , after all its a service he request from a realestate agent and he can rent his house out without an agent, it just seems odd that a lazy landlord can make someone else pay?

The landlord probably ALSO pays a letting success fee along with the weekly percentage of the rent. I wish I'd become a property manager

[MattRSK]

pretty sure a landlord would want the hot water cyclinder fixed pretty smart...the floor will be rotting!If its not a loose pipe the cylinder itself will have had it,and will have to be replaced.

Guess I could just take the bucket out from under it and let the floor rot out. I'm sure thats willful damage though.

[Lias]

Whats missing here is an invite to come around for a KB housewarming for a BBQ and spa lol :-)

[popelli]

shouldnt it be the landlord that pays the letting fee , after all its a service he request from a realestate agent and he can rent his house out without an agent, it just seems odd that a lazy landlord can make someone else pay?

Somebody has to pay for the services provided and if the landlord pays he will load the rent to cover it so the tenant will pay one way or the other

I have rented properties on and off for the best part of 20 years now

Apart from the capital gain if you have a mortgage there is not a lot of money in it

Repairs, tenant damage, vacancies between tenants whilst you are fixing / claning up the mess left by previous tenants, unpaid rent, bills for unauthorised or ficticious repairs

Tenancy Tribunals are a joke, they always find in favour of the tenant even when they have blatently broken written agreements

[Sollyboy]

Somebody has to pay for the services provided and if the landlord pays he will load the rent to cover it so the tenant will pay one way or the other

I have rented properties on and off for the best part of 20 years now

Apart from the capital gain if you have a mortgage there is not a lot of money in it

Repairs, tenant damage, vacancies between tenants whilst you are fixing / claning up the mess left by previous tenants, unpaid rent, bills for unauthorised or ficticious repairs

Tenancy Tribunals are a joke, they always find in favour of the tenant even when they have blatently broken written agreements

I know someone has to pay but charging a tennant a letting fee to me is like walking into a dairy and the dairy owner telling you the previous customer took a loaf of bread for free and said to just charge the next customer for it, the landlord in effects is incures a debt for the tennant , if need to be then load it onto the rent which over a year may only be $4 a week which is better than coming up with a $200 plus gst up front, also no gst on rent so if divided between a years rent no gst incur , some peeps here have no sense of fair play

[FROSTY:Me]

Solly nahh dont think you have it right. If ya wanna comparison its like going into a trave agent and booking a holiday --you know they are clipping the ticket on everything but you pay for the service.