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Shifty landlord tries to rip off potential tenants!
Topic Started: 21 Feb 2012, 09:53 AM (1,072 Views)
Mahamed
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We're dealing with a private landlord in NSW (yeah, I know, dodgy alarm bells were ringing). On Thursday we inspected the property with him and agreed to rent the property for $700pw for 6 months under a standard Residential Tenancy Agreement, confirmed mutually verbally and by email.

He confirmed his acceptance of this by email on Friday, with a moving in date of 2 March, and said details for deposit would be forthcoming that evening. We immediately replied that we were giving notice of vacating our current rental, and did so on Friday afternoon.

On Sunday (two nights later) night he got back to us and said his terms were that we pay a deposit now to agree to paying *8 weeks rent in advance* in ADDITION to a 4 week bond.

We know that under section 33 of the Residential Tenancies Act NSW a landlord/agent can only ask you to pay 2 weeks rent in advance. He has given us his verbal and email contract to rent under a Residential Tenancy Agreement. We told him this by email and are waiting him to call or email us back.

We are stressed out!! We have given notice to move out in less than 3 weeks and for all we know the agent already has someone else lined up to move in. Can we retract our notice if this cowboy decides to ditch us?

Hmmm... I'm thinking Small Claims Tribunal for immense compensation (hotels, storage, cat boarding, loss of income and stress) could be in order but all I want is to lay our heads down and sleep in the new house on 2 March.

How would you deal with this? We're having trouble sleeping and feel a bit angry....

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I smell a rat. He's emailed us some bank detail numbers to pay $5,600 upfront into and we don't even have the account name or know his address. He could be anyone...!

How do you find out the owner of a property in a strata title?

This feels SUSS :-(

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Thanks for replies. This shonkster has no interest in any laws. We have spoken with police, Fair Trading and real estate agents today and they all agreed with us.

Get this — He even boasted to me of how he doesn't declare for tax on his rent income (he rents his properties out for $700 a week... yeah, that's a lot of untaxed income)!!

He's totally unethical. He manipulated us into this pressurised situation quite deliberately and we're glad we told him where to go. We might be facing homelessness very shortly but we dodged a bigger bullet.

Today he's advertising his "executive" property on Domain again (hey, if you're interested ask me about it, LOL). He'll probably try to suck in some poor international students who have no idea about their rights. Who has $8,500 – 12 weeks rent including bond – lying around ready to hand over to a shonkster like him??? I really hope someone destroys his house.

Ah. Sigh. Moving on! :-)
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Unbelievable, thanks for sharing that.
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TMR
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Good job they smelt a rat and dodged that bullet. Hopefully karma (or the taxman) catches up with this chap sonner rather than later...
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peter fraser
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TMR
18 May 2012, 08:51 PM
Good job they smelt a rat and dodged that bullet. Hopefully karma (or the taxman) catches up with this chap sonner rather than later...
There have been scammers in Brisbane doing exactly that. They are not property owners at all, they are con men who take the bonds and rent in advance and then disappear. They do NOT own the property.

I suggest that renters avoid private arrangements and use established agencies who not only vet tenants, but they get rid of troublesome landlords as well.
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Mahamed
21 Feb 2012, 09:53 AM
Don't you mean "a parragon of his profession"?

Whats this "dodgy " stuff you are slandering this upstanding, no doubt a labor politician in waiting fellow citizen, ......the mans just doing his job.
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So someone did a dodgy business deal - wow, alert the media. If I had a dollar for every time a tenant has fed me a dodgy story I'd be rich.
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