Full-furnished apartment and dryer

[sjkpark]

Hi,

My parents bought a property that was fully furnished and moved in there recently. Our plan was to sell their last PPOR however it didn't sell so they rented out the place as fully furnished, on 1 year fixed term.

We have a dryer that we hardly ever used in there, and the tenants are saying it's not working well (not completely out of order, but not drying the clothes as dry as they would like it to). We never realised it as for the last 15 years we probably used the dryer about 15 times (like an annual event).

In this situation, do we have obligation to fix/replace the dryer for them? The repairman seems to be saying that there's nothing much he can do about it. We are reluctant to replace it as we don't have any long term plan to have the property as a rental, this is a temporary measure and we don't need one for ourselves - so we would have to sell it when we sell the property.

And how many of you think a dryer is an essential part of a furnished property?

Thanks

S

[Keithw]

Its not a requirement to have a drier, but having provided something, it is really required to work.
By the sound of it, it does work, but they are overloading it, ie throwing the whole load from the washer into the drier.
Tell them to reduce the load they put in, or do as you have obviously done, hang on the line to dry !

If they are not happy with any appliance, they can buy their own.

[CJ]

When we moved into one place, we were specifically told that if the dishwasher and fridge broke down, it would not be replaced to avoid these sorts of issues.

[Bulldog]

If it is included as part of the chattels in the agreement, its not worth the hassle of avoiding the cost. Dryers are cheap enough, get a new one with guarantee & replace, suggest to tenant they pay a portion. If the old one works OK, flog it off on Trademe to recover some cost.

[WGN ex-property manager]

What Bulldog said.

If you provided it, and it doesn't work property, you must replace it (unless you stated in the Tenanacy agreement that it was not part of the chattels, just "free to use while it works").

Opinions about "does a furnished apartment need a dryer" do not come in to it.

[ChrisD]

I don't know why people find these types of issues difficult - apply some common sense and come to a reasonable conclusion. Of course the drier is your responsibility - you provided a property with a drier for rent. Whether it's an important factor to you is completely meaningless. Get ti fixed/replace and move on with life.

[PC]

Clean the lint out of the filter for the first time in 15yrs?