call the tenant's union -- www.tuv.org.au

wow, that's harsh.

that should be www.tuv.org.au

thanks danielz, will check it.

you might have to go to a tribunal -- had a similar thing happen in an old place, got a couple of months' free rent for the inconvenience.

That's fucked, dude!

Good luck with it ambo. I'm sure you'll be fine.

have emailed the union. thanks for the support guys.

How long was the lease period? The 60 days (eviction) period should be for periodic tenancies (ie. when there's no agreed term). If you've signed a lease for a fixed period, then you can seek compensation (it's effectively a breach of contract). Tenants Union can give you the low down.

On a completely different topic. If you live in a flat where nobody's names are on the lease and the landlord lives far away. Do you have the right to get things done like plumbing etc, and send them the bill?

nup. none of you have entered into a contract with the landlord, so s/he can tell you to get fucked and probably kick you out with no notice if they want.

You are, however, permitted under common law to leave a turd in every room upon your eventual departure.

I think as a squatter (which you probably are, legally) you are required to leave a turd in every room.

and burn the place to the ground.

of course turding the room just affects any cleaners/wreckers, and not the landlord.

you should be able to travel to the landlords abode and leave a turn in every room there.

Unless the landlord/agent is going to ask for ID, just ask them to fix it. They can't complain if you're paying the rent. I think it's an implied contract?

It's due to their own neglect that they haven't bothered to sign a new lease with us. So They have some obligation to keep the house maintained. We are paying full rent each month, that's all they care about, and us to be honest. If something fucks up like plumbing and electricity, we're worried that if we contact them they'll make us sign a proper lease and jack up the rent. Because we are in a prime area where the rent is going up for the neighboring terrace houses.

If something fucks up like plumbing and electricity, we're worried that if we contact them they'll make us sign a proper lease and jack up the rent

this is worrying me at the moment too. my name is on the lease but the lease expired a year ago and i'm just month-to-monthing now. rent hasn't gone up since i moved in two years ago, and now it looks like we need major plumbing work.

fuxsake.

I'm assuming plumbing is really expensive. It's not something we can take into our own hands and pay for. The plumbing has fixed itself for now, but it tends to get blocked every now and then. Does anyone know roughly how much it costs to fix blocked drains?

following from my first post......

i ended up losing to them at vcat, but only through my own stupidity. it seems that regardless of how bad your landlord and agent are to you, no matter how many things they have fucked up, how many repair requests they have ignored, how much of your own coin you have put into the property, etc. you can not make the decision to cease paying your rent. i did, for a month, and they sent the police around to see me. so i left, but not before trashing the house. The last thing they fucked up on was never doing a condition report. So there is no way to prove to vcat that the torn off doors, person sized holes in the walls, 64 smashed scotch bottles on the kitchen floor, and absolutely annihilated oven weren't like that before i moved in. So now im back in Bloburg, living with a couple of the VC boys i toured with last year. good on me.

ah.

I can't TELL you how many times a week I give that exact advice: ALWAYS pay your rent. do not think that you can gain the upper hand by with-holding rent.

That advice goes across the board. you can pay anything without prejudice (parking fines being one example) and then go hard at getting it back. Mobile phone bill high due to data charges? Pay the calls, get the data costs held. Arrange this before you decide not to pay the entire bill.

We got it we got it we got it

...and did not offer one cent over the asking rental price.

Oh and it is Milton St you idiots

my landlord has decided that she'd like to live in the lovely house i've made my home for the last three years so as of the 30th of october my housie and i have 60 days to vacate. so effectively a month to find a new place to live seeing as december is a write off for this shit.

SHE'S TAKING MY FUCKING VEGIE GARDEN!!

i've put so much work into it and my tomatoes are looking so good :(

am i allowed to take plants that i planted with me?

Today the real estate visited me.There's no-doubt they'll raise rent.

louis, you should totally pot up as much as you can of your vegies right now to take with you, give them time to adjust before they start really producing food. there's no laws over what is in the vegie garden...she can plant more when she arrives if she's that worried. when the last person moved out of my current house, she took her roses. not that i cared.

I hate leaving vegie gardens behind...

Don't forget to plant grass in the carpet before you go louis.

am i allowed to take plants that i planted with me?

yes.

ALL of them.

louis - we went through the exact same situation as you two months ago, including the vegie garden. we left it there, we weren't really greenthumbed enough to know what to do with it, and there's no dirt around here, it'd have to be in pots. stupid landlords. i hope the stupidface is enjoying the continental parsley we planted. we tried to get out as soon as we could. in the end it's turned out okay, but yeah, it's a frustration. good luck!

salt the earth. SALT THE EARTH!

done. my vegies are coming with me.

stupid bitch isn't going to get a single bite of my lovely organically raised herbs and vegies.

she can have the passionfruit though, that doesn't seem to want to grow.

buy a bunch of mice from the petshop and let them loose in the house when yu move out.

oooh. tops idea.

i seem to have the best luck with these, the most cunting of all cunts.......

Im getting booted from my place in the first week of next year coz im living behind a shop, and the owner of the property never had permits for a residence. They have to compensate me/find me another place etc, but its still fucked. I like my glorified cubbyhouse. Cunsz.

we just got given notice for not keeping the premises reasonably clean! they mentioned the kitchen (washed from top to bottom the previous day,) floors (clean as a whistle,) bathroom (admittedly a bit dusty, but certainly within the definition of 'reasonably clean'). i've lived in some pretty filthy rentals before but i've never been given notice for not keeping the place reasonably clean. and this place was fucking gleaming when they inspected it!

now they've sent us a document that we're breaching contract by not keeping the property clean, and we've got two weeks to address the situation or they'll charge us $400 to get it done professionally! what the fuck are these clowns playing at?

Call consumer affairs. Do they have proof of this so called uncleanliness? Sounds seriously dodgy and probably illegal.

what the fuck are these clowns playing at?

they want you out.

if they want them out they just kick them out with 60 days notice.