06-Nov-2018
Property Investment Blog
23-Oct-2018
Have your say about these new tenancy forms
Tenancy Services is reaching out to APIA landlords for feedback on 4 Bond forms currently being re-designed. The exercise is to improve on the current forms by creating logical workflows that are easy to fill out but also collect the necessary information to progress each bond matter. The four forms are: Bond lodgement Bond refund Bond transfe... read more
18-Oct-2018
Peter Lewis: What landlords need to know about meth contamination
There has been a lot of confusion and debate about acceptable standards of methamphetamine contamination in rental housing. When the problem first surfaced, it was generally held that any level of meth in a property was a breach of the landlord’s requirement to provide a clean and safe house at the start of the tenancy. Several Tenancy Tribunal rulings at that time imposed large ... read more
15-Oct-2018
Ryan Smuts: What to expect when you use a mortgage broker?
How do you know a broker is going to give you the best advice, and why is it worthwhile going down this path as opposed to going to your own bank? Well, this is a timely topic and definitely is a valid question. Typically the barriers to entry in our market are relatively low, and in terms of qualifications, not too much has to be done to be giving advice in the mortga... read more
11-Oct-2018
The thing about "no-cause" termination ...
Currently, hot news in the property world right now are the proposals to ‘reform’ the Residential Tenancies Act. A number of changes to this Act are under consideration, and of these changes, the "no cause" clause is likely to be the most problematic for landlords. The publicity around this proposal is – possibly deliberately – biased. There is actually no such thing as a “no cau... read more
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