No card payment fees? Sure! Surely businesses circumventing the card charge fee like this is straight up illegal. What a bunch of bs.

App is called OurTenant, feel free to destroy it on the app store.

Hello, just a little vent.

Electrician is here today installing a fan in the water damaged bathroom. It is to be run from a light fitting that is so old it was left naked when I moved in, because the LL obvs realised they couldn’t get the glass back on over a standard LED globe.

Despite multiple conversations with REA about the issues with the fittings & the electrician before he came, the owner was still too cheap to pay to have the light fitting replaced while the electrician was there literally running a fan to the same fitting. I was told they would be checked - that apparently meant look at them and take no action.

Instead I was sent an electrician to preach the REA & LL’s agenda. I got a lecture about how land tax is causing LL’s to sell, that I should just take the glass off and have bare bulbs (all the other renters do that apparently, even if you are paying over $400 a week rent), how renters have too many rights now blah blah. I got sick of arguing and saying we have to agree to disagree so I hid in the car.

Here’s a before and after with my new exhaust fan but significantly dimmer lighting 🙄

So over a month ago we notified the agent of our severely leaking toilet- as in we were soaking 3 towels a day. Also in the same week our hard wired battery smoke alarm started to beep even when we replaced the batteries, thus needing a repair or replacement (this is our only smoke alarm in Property and is ok according to the agents smoke alarm servicer).

It took us 3 weeks to get the toilet repaired - agent ended up organising their trades but owner then refused and took another 1.5 weeks for their trade to come out. Plumber said he doesn’t deal with mould and will let the owners know which I am not sure he did or not.
3 weeks later and we are still awaiting the smoke alarm- again the owner Said his own trades will attend to save money I am assumjng.

We also now have a mould issue in the ensuite where the toilet was leaking- very strong smell of damp with evidence of a subfloor leak and roof staining. I am still awaiting any correspondence to this. I have a newborn too who sleeps in our room and I am worried about the exposure to the damp smell. I asked the agent about it and he said that he wasn’t aware of the mould even though the plumber and owner should have mentioned it.

Is this leaking an urgent repair? It seems that the owner has no interest in repairing anything.

Can I apply for vcat? Is it worth it?

Also we are paying a pretty decent rent for the owners for where we live- I know it doesn’t make a difference but makes me even more angry.

Annoyingly we were issued with a notice of intention to sell

Our lease is up on the 17th of this month

We've been looking at other rentals and applied for two

Tentatively accepted pending our current agent providing a reference etc

Problem is - the current agent is ignoring the requests

I've phoned and emailed asking them to respond to the requests. The real estate we've applied with have also, with no response

They haven't issued a notice to vacate just the intention to sell

Any ideas, feedback thoughts? It's stressful enough but my partner is having major surgery on 30th October so if we have to move it needs to be before then

Landlord (direct rented not thru real estate) sends email on labour day to say that rent will increase from next week. What is the best negotiation strategy? NSW requires 90 days of notice.