r/shitrentals

here’s the sito:

been in our place since mid 2021. resigned a 12 month lease in Nov 25. we asked for 6 months LL said nah so we said ok fine 12 months it is.

April hear from the agency LL wants to sell. the agent comes over to “chat” asks what our “plans” are and says inspections are gonna be intense probably about 3-4 opens a week (basically trying to put us off being here). I told him we‘ve been thru it before on previous rental except we were month to month and left that place for here before it got sold.

He says agency can look after us and transfer us to a new rental, but then proceeds to only shows us rentals that are more than we are paying now and lesser of a house. He said agency doing us a favour by “allowing us to break our lease with no fees”. I asked about compensation for moving costs and he said no that’s not an option.

The issue is we are not financially prepared to move right now, but do we even have to? i actually didn’t mind our LL and would’ve moved out of their way to help sell the house easier (more suited to owner occupier otherwise tenanted really limits who can buy it). This sales agent just rubbed me the wrong way though, he was arrogant and making it out like we had no options and they were doing us a favour. We are on one income atm, I am pregnant and SAHM to a toddler. We are not gonna be able to apply for a new place outside the agency with our current circumstances and everything within the agency is well above budget. We had intentions of moving back with parents end of the year before baby 2. For logistical reasons this can’t be done earlier but could’ve organised it if they had originally accepted our 6 month lease terms and we would’ve moved out by now.

But now stuck. What are our rights and how can we proceed from here? thank you

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I successfully got VCAT to make orders for the owners to fix urgent repairs that includes dangerous electrical issues (previous post). I know the property is non-compliant - there are exposed electrical wires in the walls. Their electrician agreed with me. Hence, I was sure the rental just could not have passed the safety check.

The agent said at VCAT (under oath mind you) that all the compliance checks were passed and there are no urgent repairs that need to be done.

Today I received a compliance certificate (I had to get VCAT order for them to release it).

The same electrician just told me that he issued the agent with a NON-compliant certificate and report with the list of urgent repair items.

Surely the agent or owner would not photoshopped an electrical safety certificate to put a tick in that box.

This is just wild. I am going to get to the bottom of this.

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

Bit of a vent.

Former landlord (let’s call him Kostas) is now taking a former tenant to Magistrates Court over about $500 (water bill + a bit of rent).

Tenant was there 20+ years. Constant plumbing issues (blocked toilet, leaking taps/shower, gates falling apart, just generally falling apart). Whenever something broke, Kostas would come “fix” it himself, sometimes using the tenant’s tools, then on the way out would mention raising the rent. “This rent’s too f***ing cheap” once the toilet was blocked for over a week. Tenant had to go to local shopping centre for toilet. After an appendectomy no less. Kostas didn’t care.

This happened over and over until the tenant eventually said: happy to discuss a rent increase, but the plumbing needs a proper fix, and by a professional.

That was the catalyst. Kostas lost it and soon after issued a notice to vacate. Stat dec said his son was moving in.

At SACAT, the story kept changing: son needed to move in; actually son was taking over the mortgage; also son was nearly homeless because Kostas got kicked out by his wife… big sob story full of lies. None of it really lined up, but the stat dec stood.

There were also issues with Kostas entering unannounced and being aggressive (tenant got a small rent credit for that), but overall SACAT still ruled in his favour on the rent/water.

That was mid-year last year, and the tenant didn’t pay on principle, now it’s escalated to magistrates court.

I know it’s “only” $500 but it feels like a textbook retaliatory eviction that just… gets waved through. Whole system seems to be confusing and unfair. Kostas wins.

Is there anyway to make future tenants aware of the issues with the property other than through shitrentals.org?

heya, housemates and i were advised by MYLO that we have a leak in the gas mains under our house, so obviously gas has been turned off (no heater, no stove, no hot water). Landlord has had three plumbers give quotes to fix but keeps rejecting them as it's too expensive for him lololol

It's been three days, how long is too long for him to be putting this off?

TLDR: to many hurdles and im to lazy to jump them all

"Hey this one is in my price range"
ASIANS ONLY

"This one looks nice i wonder whats wrong-"

Females only

"This one is close to my work"

OVER 55'S ONLY

"I suppose i can settle for this one for 3 months"

INDIANS ONLY

"I guess i will take the first thing i can get"

You must submit your application before you can inspect the property

Why does anyone ever bother anymore?

I have lived in Sydney for 6 years, and this is my 10th property. I have rented almost exclusively through Flatmates. And for some reason, I have never had a landlord that has understood and respected basic tenant rights - at best, they had to be explained to the landlords by us tenants, and at worst they were just completely ignored.

My most recent house is the weirdest situation by far. I'm renting a room with a few flatmates. This elderly couple showed me the house and had me sign the contract (they don't live there). For some reason, they wanted the rent to go into their son's banking account (so who is my landlord?).

Then, after about a week of me being there, I was relaxing in bed one day, when the couple randomly shows up and the lady starts banging on my door calling out my name. I pretended I wasn't there as I was half-naked and didn't want to get up. She banged on the door for a solid 20 minutes. Then she... opened the door and walked in. She saw me and was very apologetic, said she was worried something had happened to me.

I thought she'd stop coming over, but then most recently she sent me a message complaining about a mess I'd left in the kitchen. I had popped out to grab a few ingredients while I was cooking. None of my flatmates raised the issue about the mess.

I could tell her she's trespassing, but why should I? Why can't people just know not to disrespect other people's private spaces?

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Finally bought a place. Moving out of our rental (20+ years of renting multiple houses across Sydney). The agent has booked an open home the day before we move. Boxes everywhere, house is an absolute mess. We live close to our kids' school where my wife is a teacher so people will be coming through the house who likely know us.

Utter. Embarassment.

I might comment to clarify what you mean, otherwise I kind of just want to understand and won't argue or judge. I have been owner occupier for a while and could potentially be a landlord for the next couple years so I have the option to move back to the city I want to get the hell away from.

We’re in Queensland and just handed back the keys today after vacating the rental. The formal end/notice expiry date on our Notice of Intention to Leave is tomorrow.

We lodged our claim for the full bond refund today via the RTA online system right after handing in the keys (the system accepted it and used today as the vacate/handover date). We’ve also already paid the outstanding re-let invoice they sent us..

The property manager has now disputed our bond claim, calling it “premature” because it was lodged before the notice expiry date and before an exit inspection. They want us to wait until everything is finalised.

From what I’ve read on the RTA site and Tenants Queensland, once you give vacant possession by returning the keys, the tenancy has effectively ended for bond purposes. But the legislation isn’t clear so I’m unsure what to do.

Any advice? Did we fuck up?

Hi good people of reddit,

Got a bit of a messy end of lease situation in Canberra and would appreciate some advice.

We’re on a periodic lease and gave notice to vacate on 12 April. In the ACT you only have to give 3 weeks notice for a periodic lease, so that part is all fine.

The REA came back and said final inspection and key handover would be on 4 May.

Problem is we’re actually moving out on 28 April and heading overseas on the 4th. We asked to bring everything forward to the 28th so we could be there in case they wanted anything touched up, as agents can be pretty picky. He said that was fine but never locked in a time.

Since then, nothing.

Land line is disconnected, emails are not getting replies, and all the staff have resigned.

So now I’m stuck with:

No confirmed inspection time

No clear way to return keys

No contact from the agent at all

From what I understand thanks to ChatGPT, once we vacate, return the keys, lodge the bond claim, the 14 day period starts for them to dispute.

Plan at the moment is:

Clean and vacate on the 28th

Take detailed photos and videos of everything

Return keys somehow

Lodge bond claim straight away

Got a few issues here. From my understanding, as long as I get the keys to them or send them to a PO Box, I can kick off the bond claim from there. Is that correct?

Further to that, it looks like the agency does not even have an office anymore, so I have no idea where I am meant to drop the keys.

Also, would it be crossing a line to contact the landlord directly just to sort out key return, or is that reasonable given the situation? Plus recommend some better agents lol

Just trying to avoid any issues, especially after a bad experience with a previous rental. Would love not have a hassle while we’re away 🙂

Cheers🙂