I'm really nervous!
I've been the tenant for a year in a boarding house style place.
First, and the most obvious thing I'm taking them there for is failure to lodge bond. I paid a $500 bond and it has not been lodged. About 50 people live here, and none are lodged. Imagine the interest they are making!
They also required 3 weeks rent in advance, the last week to be held until the end of the tenancy.
We also didn't get a proper tenancy agreement. It says tenancy agreement on the front, but does not contain the amount of rent we pay, an address for the landlord, etc, nothing except stuff like "Please no candles in the rooms".
The thing that originally prompted my application was because in September, we had no hot water for 6 days, then a generator was put in and we had lukewarm water but still not heating (as it was run of the same system) and it took 12 days for normal system to be fixed.
I am claiming for compensation for failure to maintain because this should not have happened. I had to wash my hair in a bowl of cold water. The boarding house is only 11 year old, so to just ignore a system until it totally gives out is unacceptable.
Any advice for my hearing? I'm so nervous it'll be like Judge Judy and I'll get thrown out of the court for whatever reason.
I've been the tenant for a year in a boarding house style place.
First, and the most obvious thing I'm taking them there for is failure to lodge bond. I paid a $500 bond and it has not been lodged. About 50 people live here, and none are lodged. Imagine the interest they are making!
They also required 3 weeks rent in advance, the last week to be held until the end of the tenancy.
We also didn't get a proper tenancy agreement. It says tenancy agreement on the front, but does not contain the amount of rent we pay, an address for the landlord, etc, nothing except stuff like "Please no candles in the rooms".
The thing that originally prompted my application was because in September, we had no hot water for 6 days, then a generator was put in and we had lukewarm water but still not heating (as it was run of the same system) and it took 12 days for normal system to be fixed.
I am claiming for compensation for failure to maintain because this should not have happened. I had to wash my hair in a bowl of cold water. The boarding house is only 11 year old, so to just ignore a system until it totally gives out is unacceptable.
Any advice for my hearing? I'm so nervous it'll be like Judge Judy and I'll get thrown out of the court for whatever reason.
Comment