Browse Forums Real Estate Re: Anyone know about inspections of for sale rented premises? 3Aug 11, 2008 4:41 pm How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Anyone know about inspections of for sale rented premises? 4Aug 11, 2008 5:04 pm How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Anyone know about inspections of for sale rented premises? 7Aug 12, 2008 2:21 pm How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Anyone know about inspections of for sale rented premises? 8Aug 22, 2008 8:13 pm How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Anyone know about inspections of for sale rented premises? 9Aug 23, 2008 12:48 pm 'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.' - Winston Churchill Re: Anyone know about inspections of for sale rented premises? 10Aug 23, 2008 5:52 pm How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Anyone know about inspections of for sale rented premises? 12Aug 23, 2008 8:21 pm How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Anyone know about inspections of for sale rented premises? 14Aug 23, 2008 10:48 pm Ha! We're not allowed to as tenants.
What makes matters even more annoying is today we had planned to speak to the agent about it, saying we didn't have to legally let him in today and he better bring a proper Form 9 tomorrow or he wasn't coming in at that time tomorrow, but he spent most of the time outside, with people coming through (well, the ONE person who came. That's another issue we have with all this, which I'll get to in a second), and then the minute he was around and free, his phone rang and then he hastily left, completely avoiding us. But not tomorrow. We will follow him out when he leaves if required. Anyway, ONE person came to the open house. The same as last time, when one person came Saturday and 2 on Sunday, none of which were interested. The agents for some unknown reason do not advertise the property anywhere except online and their own open for inspection brochures. They do not put it in the paper or in their open for inspection section in the paper. We don't know why, but this would possibly explain why nobody ever turns up to the open houses. Every single time people have come in, it's simply because they're either neighbours or have happened to be walking by. They're not actually interested in buying, they're just curious. I think ONE person this whole time has been interested, and because they didn't put the price in the ad (which was in the paper that one time), they weren't suitable either and left quickly upon learning the price. So we're being inconvenienced week after week for nothing. Why aren't they advertising properly? Why can't they get the simple Form 9 right? SUCKS! How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Anyone know about inspections of for sale rented premises? 16Aug 25, 2008 10:15 am I know, I know! But we don’t want to cause trouble. We want our bond back! lol How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Anyone know about inspections of for sale rented premises? 17Aug 25, 2008 5:00 pm Quote: They do not put it in the paper or in their open for inspection section in the paper. We don't know why, Probably because the vendor has the option of which tier advetising they want from the agent and have opted for the cheapest which is only internal advertising. As you have seen, obviously false economy Re: Anyone know about inspections of for sale rented premises? 18Aug 26, 2008 10:51 am The vendor seems a bit of an idiot to me. He bought the property for $357,000 2 years ago. He has been trying to sell it since February this year (for $495,000). He bought and his first attempt at selling was through our rental agents. They had several people through (all individual private inspections, no open houses) for quite some time and he apparently had an offer of $485,000 but he refused.
After several months, he considered the agents weren’t doing enough so took it off the market, got it valued by Ray White and then hired them to sell it (with a price drop of $475,000). It’s now been on the market through Ray White for a month and they have had a grand total of 12 people through the entire time, and only 2 have been actually mildly interested. 1 came through a private inspection and was interested, and out of the 10 people who’ve come in from all the open houses (every weekend, both days, grr) only 1 has had any interest whatsoever. All the others have just wandered in off the street. We assumed the vendor wasn’t too keen to spend any money to sell it (ads, etc). He hasn’t spent any money on the actual property (and it does need things done), and yet puts the rent up $20-$40 a week every single time the lease expires and is renewed (every 6 months. He won’t give a 12 month lease. We’ve been here 5 years but he wants to be able to put the rent up more regularly). Anyway, so now he’s dropped it again to $459,000. We think this is a joke considering he probably could’ve sold it back in March/April for $485,000! How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Anyone know about inspections of for sale rented premises? 19Aug 29, 2008 4:07 pm The latest installment in the Ray White saga...
We asked them last weekend (when they technically shouldn't have come in at the time they did anyway) to let us know as early as possible (Wednesday/Thursday) what time the next open house (for this weekend) would be, as it's a public holiday here today (Friday) and we need to make appointments on Wednesday and Thursday for the weekend with tradesmen and such. At that point they weren't sure there even would BE an open house as they were speaking to the owner during the week. The agent said he'd let us know. We heard nothing. On Thursday night when we got home we saw the disc on the For Sale sign out the front had 10-10.30am on it for Sat & Sun. We were like, oh. Ok then. Thanks for letting us know!!!!! Today is Friday. There has been no Form 9, which they are legally required to issue to us with a MINIMUM of 24 hours notice, before they can enter for the open house or to show people the premises. So...in my opinion, they chose not to give us the required Form 9, so they also have chosen not to have the open house. We tried to call them but they (both agents in charge of the open houses) didn't answer their phones (we left a msg on both), and the office girl was very unhelpful and said she couldn't do anything. CONSTANT PROBLEMS!!! How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Anyone know about inspections of for sale rented premises? 20Sep 01, 2008 1:51 pm I think you need to go above these people to the board of real estate or whatever governing body there is that says you need these "form 9's". They are quite obviously breaking the rules and you need to pull them up on it. You have mandatory building inspections and privately engaged building inspections. The difference between the two comes down to inspecting the building so it's safe and… 3 18488 The most definitive answer to your question James is this taken from the James Hardie Axon Cladding Installation Guide - i just happen to have it… 5 3929 I had an old shower unit that broke on me and when I took it off, there were only 2 water pipes, instead of the normal 2 water pipes and a shower head pipe. S o I… 0 37197 |