The marketeer guaranteed to cover the owners’ mortgage payments and other outgoings in exchange for a long-term option to
Property manager appeals “biased” tenant repair reimbursement ruling
A Brisbane agent has successfully appealed the “substantial injustice” of a tribunal ruling thatrequired a tenant to pay...
Agent pushback on liability for rental’s maintenance defects
A Burleigh Heads agency faces a $25k personal liability to a residential tenant for over maintenance deficiencies and ot...
Agent pinged $8k for innocent trust receipt lapses
A real estate agent who failed to properly receipt tenancy bonds and left the cash received to be processed by other sta...
Can landlord set-off duty to put premises into ‘good repair’ by charging low rent?
Residential and commercial leases – and the legislation that regulates them – contain numerous provisions re...
Right to recover tenant rental arrears protected by Magna Carta & U.N. – Carmody
When veteran litigator Edward Amos was awarded a fraction of the compensation claimed from a tenant who walked out on a ...
Carmody rules outside dunny “is what it is” in Stayz.com refund fight
An online advertisement describing a holiday home near Cairns as a “family and child friendly… secure property …with the...
Philosopher landlord lashed on “unlawful” residential tenancy clauses
A landlord whose $5k bond claim included $75 for lights globes he argued his tenant somehow “left burning” for six month...
“Tricked” into tenancy: landlord bars entry to tenant, sues agent
A tenant refused entry to a Sunshine Coast apartment she signed up to rent has been awarded compensationfor the landlord...