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  You all know the saying, ‘you get what you pay for’. But that’s all well and good until you are faced with an owner who has been offered a discounted property management rate by a competitor down the road and asking you to lower yours. How...

  Sub-letting is becoming increasingly popular in Australia, particularly as the cost of rent and living rises. While sub-letting is legal in most Australian states and territories, things can become unclear if the property is damaged, someone is...

  A Gold Coast family that unwittingly lived as tenants in a house riddled with toxic levels of methamphetamine is currently planning to take their former real estate agency to court. After testing, it was discovered that the house had been contaminated...

  Legislation generally requires that tenants leave a property ‘reasonably clean’ when their lease ends in order to receive their full bond back. But how do you define something as subjective as the term, ‘reasonably clean’? Those of you...

  A national safety warning has been issued this month on four gas heater models following a tragic death from carbon monoxide poisoning in Victoria.  With winter just around the corner, this is an issue all property managers must be on top of now....

  We all know how important it is to keep meticulous records in property management. From ingoing, routine and outgoing inspection reports to maintenance and repair requests, you can’t have too much information. But in any busy role, it’s easy...

  Taking time off from a busy job like property management isn’t always easy. With with long to-do lists, ingoing and outgoing inspections that seem to take longer and longer, compliance to stay on top of and unanticipated problems to solve, the...

  Two real estate agents in NSW were recently ordered to pay a tenant $330,000 because they allegedly failed to respond to requests made via email to fix a broken light. The five owners of the property and the agents all denied responsibility when...

  There’s no denying that the role of property manager is a busy one. The daily to-do list can be demanding and that’s before any unexpected requests come through. No matter how diligent you are at getting things done and documenting them, when...