u/martoonthecartoon

Hi guys, our house was put on the market for sale, when someone made an offer the owner made a mistake and told the prospective new owners that our lease ended in May instead of mid July.

Consequently the new owners were apparently eager to get into the propert and asked the current owner if we would consider moving out in early April, this was in late March.

We found a place that we are moving into on May 1st so we were lucky and happy to help him out as the sale was "conditional" which I believe probably included us being out and some improvements being done to the house.

I approached the current owner in regards to some form of compensation as we were entitled to it, my suggestion was that he or the new owners covering our removalists costs, now that we have found a place he is balking at paying. We will be covering the cost of the removalists, (approximately between 1500 to 1800 bucks)and then we will put a claim through vcat.

My question is, is anyone that has claimed compensation before, how much have they claimed, would it be more than what our moving costs would be. This landlord is a bit slimey, even to the point of blaming his wife that passed away recently for him not knowing about the leases end date

Well, out and about looking for a rental, gotta say, it seems that some owners do not care if they rent or not. The state of some houses are disgusting, overgrown yards, rubbish everywhere, some properties with rotted timber frames on pergola and laundries. Badly damaged driveways, it clearly shows the level of owners concern about renters comfort or safety. 2 out the 5 houses we looked at today aren't good enough for a dog let alone humans or god forbid a family with kids. If you want good tenants make your property presentable otherwise you end up getting the tenants you deserve