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Originally Posted by calNgary
Its not too bad if you have someone here to do the inspection but personally i found this the most important bit.The agents are so strict on the state of the property when you leave ,,if it isnt mint dont expect all your bond back.A good friend was deducted $50 for removal of a cobweb outside!!!The inspection is the most important bit and a good oportunity to discuss any discrepancies you see at the property with the agent.if it isnt wrote down they wont want to know when you come to vacate,,hope this makes sense
Cal x
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I've heard so many stories of tenants giving hard luck stories when it comes to getting one's Bond Money back............. and how pedantic some of the letting agencies are.
As a landlord............. we thought we'd do the right thing and do up one of our rental properties.......... make it nice for the new tenant. Like idiots we put down new carpets, new blinds.............. got the whole house painted inside............. put in mirrored robes .......... TV points in every room..............run power points out to the workshop.
We had a couple of excellent tenants.......... no complaints.............. both rented our place one after the other while they built their own house and everything was fine. ...... until one day we copped the original Tenant From Hell.
We thought he was a nice guy at first............. just a bit down on his luck......... in between jobs and all that................. he was struggling to pay the rent..........then he'd go up bush for a few months and come back cashed up. he seemed to have got his act together jobwise and paid on time so all was seemingly alright for a few months.
Then the headaches began.............. no rent for ages............... we had to go to court to get vacant possession.............. when we achieved same we were in for a mighty big shock once we did gain access.
I wouldn't have let our two dogs stay in that house............. drug paraphernalia everywhere................ burns in the carpets where spoons had been heated up. When drunk he'd lost the keys so had climbed on the roof and lifted a couple of tiles to gain entry............ no worries until it rained as he didn't put them back. Okay.......... the insurance company fixed up the leaking roof damage and a new paint job for that one room............... but the insurance company wouldn't fix up the rest of the damage.
There was rubbish everywhere.............. we had to get 2 big skips to remove all the junk............... we managed to get hold of his dad who was most apologetic....... and we found out it wasn't the first time he had done this!
I didn't have my own Real Estate Agency then so we had put our rentals through a letting agency..............obviously the letting agency weren't doing their job properly re inspections and what have you.............. still charged me for same but! Back garden hidden behind a fence was lion and tiger territory............ like a jungle ......I doubt if it had been cut for at least a year.............. there was a fire danger as the grass was taller than the hidden gas hot water system and was all scorched from the flue. ...... ........ couple more weeks and the whole lot could have gone up in smoke.
Our Tenant From Hell even had the gall to request his Bond Money back............... cost us $6,000-00 to get the place habitable and fit for humans once more. The annoying thing about this is we purposely kept the rent down because we had two magic tenants first few years and wanted to do the right thing by them. All this happened just over 12 months ago when the going rate was $230 a week but we were happy to accept $170 a week............... as long as they kept the place looking good.
We let the prat stay in our home for a $170 a week.............. and he still didn't do the right thing by us.
