Browse Forums Real Estate Re: Rude real estate agents 25Apr 12, 2007 1:09 pm Hi Matt,
The tenants paying rent on time is irrelevant to serve them a notice to vacate if they are damaging your house. From what you have told us here you have grounds to be able to serve a notice to vacate today or at a later date for; 243(1)–damage you or your visitor have (by act or omission) maliciously caused damage to the premises or common areas. I notice they are also paying their rent late as well, a breach notice can be served and if they keep it up they can be evicted regardless of when the tenancy ends. If this was a situation I would be posting a Notice to Vacate via registered mail giving them 10 days to leave. Best of luck . Re: Rude real estate agents 26Apr 12, 2007 1:43 pm You would think so wouldn't you.
Not so easy. We have to serve them with a notice to fix the damage and then if they don't then we can serve them with a notice to attend the tribunial. They have been late consistently with rent and last month we applied to the tribunial and has to adjuorn it as they paid that month. We lodged again this month as they still havent paid (2 weeks overdue.) The law is on the renters side unfortunatley... Matt Re: Rude real estate agents 27Apr 12, 2007 2:13 pm Wow, I didn't have to go via that channel.
I guess you could give them 90 days to move out- you need a reason to evict them this way! Re: Rude real estate agents 28Apr 12, 2007 5:47 pm The trouble is that the laws you'd like to apply to move out genuine trouble-makers, is also the law that owners will use to get rid of good tenants just because it may suit some new plan of the owner to have them vacate.
Also, in the case where the owner appears with a mower, the tenant *does* have a right to tell you to go ! It's written into every state tenancy law that I've seen. The tenant is paying good money for the right to live (relatively) undisturbed in the house. The owner, or anyone else, has no right to just appear and do something which they think might need to be done. If you wanted entry you need to give at least 48 hours written notice - that's the average period across most states I've lived in. Lucky you weren't pulled up on that one ! Re: Rude real estate agents 29Aug 29, 2012 9:11 pm I only have one experience with an Australian (Sydney) real estate agent (being in Denmark and all), and it was a good experience. So good in fact, I made plans to come down and view the property. In the last minute, however, I realised it would be difficult for a foreigner to buy a, let's call it "already used" property with the visa I can get, without having to apply for various exemptions. I apologised profusely, but she was very nice about it. Needless to say, that was one of the reasons I was pushed towards building myself down there. Apparently, it's not a problem to "develop" land or building, but buying an already built home which has been lived in before, and you run into a world of applications for exemptions to the rules. Real estate agents here aren't much different from down there from what you guys are writing, so I feel with you. Re: 30Sep 02, 2012 9:54 am Juzzy73 SORRY I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH YOU - I think it is totally rude of you to go through someones private home if you have no intention of buying it. Good on the real estate agent for putting you in your place. How arrogant you are to think it is your right to go through someones home for "ideas" just because it is an open house. THE OPEN HOUSE MEANS IT"S OPEN FOR POTENTIAL BUYERS!!Not nosey people!! When I sell my home I never have an "open house" - Sadly this is because nosey neighbours such as yourself feel it is their opportunity to look through your house. haha!! Are you going to screen who you let look at it too? Don't let people with trackpants in!!! Good luck with that. We renovate and often look at renovated houses to see what they've done. We look at LOTS of houses in our area as that's the only way to "know" your market to know what price is a bargain to buy in order to renovate for profit. Sometimes a house we think we are not interested in (but just stivky beaking) turns out to be something else. We actually ended up buying a house because of this. It's called OPEN HOME" not "open to buyers only home". Re: Rude real estate agents 31Sep 02, 2012 2:31 pm Umm, this is a very old thread - juzzy73 posted 2 posts back in 2006, unlikely he/she will be reading your reply now. However I do agree with you - I often go to open house inspections, and I say upfront to the agent I like looking at houses, Im just having a sticky beak, have never had anything but politeness in response to this. Sellers dont have to have open inspections, - if they do, they have to accept that not everyone who comes through will be a potential buyer. Just like not everyone browsing in a shop intends to buy something. If you are really uncomfortable with having an open inspection when you are selling - dont have one. Simple |