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Hiya y’all I’m new to this forum, but I’ve been reading quite a lot of various posts over the past two years I’ve owned rentals and you all seem to have a fair bit of knowledge on the subject of owning properties so I’d like to ask some advice if I may.
I’ve got a tenant who is continually damaging my property, small things at first that he has managed to fob off on his kids but now it seems to be escalating (frequency and level of damage) but he’s still pulling the “my kids did it” bullshit which is working for the property managers but not for me. I’m arguing that he doesn’t tell the PM right away and he either tries to hide it or acts surprised (and then later goes into denial) when the PM does their 12 weekly inspection and those are not the actions of an innocent person.
Ive told the PM that I want the property inspected every 4 weeks from now on but only until we can get on top of the damage and his behaviour improves. My reasoning is that if we can find the damage sooner and then issue the required notices to fix or get a tradie in and send him the bill then hopefully this should be enough pressure on the tenant to both control his kids (if it is indeed his kids, and I have my doubts it is) AND tell the PM exactly when the damage happens but the PM says 4 weekly inspections could be seen as harassment and he can’t do it.
Currently I’ve estimated that I have about $1500 worth of plastering to rectify and then of course it needs to be painted as well as missing gutter downpipes? Broken windows and an oven that hasn’t been cleaned for ever, the list goes on and on not to mention he’s a habitual “late payer”. I’m sick to death of bloody 14 day notices, he’s had 8 since Oct 2019 but when I mention the subject with the PM of getting his tenancy terminated based on the fact that he is clearly not listening to anything we say the PM says:
we can’t evict him if he rectifies the issues within the 14 days notice regardless of the fact that the same issues keep happening and that with regards to the holes in the walls it would be best to just wait until he moves out and we fix it all then and claim for the total costs at the end with the TT.
we can’t increase his inspection frequency to 4 weekly from 12 weekly even though he doesn’t notify the PM at the time of the damage because it would be seen as harassment by the TT.
I feel powerless and unsupported by my PM. He put them in there but doesn’t seem to want to put in the extra work to keep them in line and poo poos my suggestion that surely we have enough grounds to evict given all that’s happened in such a short space of time, and that it appears to be getting worse.
Does anyone know of any TT cases that have succeeded with eviction based on cases such as ours? If I can show the PM that a precedence has been set and it was successful then surely he can’t argue? And YES before you mention It I am going to give him the heave ho but I want him to clean up this mess that he made first and get the pigs out of my house FIRST, I don’t want to step in halfway and potentially miss something and then find out that the TT thinks he should stay. That would knot my undies even more!
HELP. ALL ADVICE IS WELCOME ��
I’ve got a tenant who is continually damaging my property, small things at first that he has managed to fob off on his kids but now it seems to be escalating (frequency and level of damage) but he’s still pulling the “my kids did it” bullshit which is working for the property managers but not for me. I’m arguing that he doesn’t tell the PM right away and he either tries to hide it or acts surprised (and then later goes into denial) when the PM does their 12 weekly inspection and those are not the actions of an innocent person.
Ive told the PM that I want the property inspected every 4 weeks from now on but only until we can get on top of the damage and his behaviour improves. My reasoning is that if we can find the damage sooner and then issue the required notices to fix or get a tradie in and send him the bill then hopefully this should be enough pressure on the tenant to both control his kids (if it is indeed his kids, and I have my doubts it is) AND tell the PM exactly when the damage happens but the PM says 4 weekly inspections could be seen as harassment and he can’t do it.
Currently I’ve estimated that I have about $1500 worth of plastering to rectify and then of course it needs to be painted as well as missing gutter downpipes? Broken windows and an oven that hasn’t been cleaned for ever, the list goes on and on not to mention he’s a habitual “late payer”. I’m sick to death of bloody 14 day notices, he’s had 8 since Oct 2019 but when I mention the subject with the PM of getting his tenancy terminated based on the fact that he is clearly not listening to anything we say the PM says:
we can’t evict him if he rectifies the issues within the 14 days notice regardless of the fact that the same issues keep happening and that with regards to the holes in the walls it would be best to just wait until he moves out and we fix it all then and claim for the total costs at the end with the TT.
we can’t increase his inspection frequency to 4 weekly from 12 weekly even though he doesn’t notify the PM at the time of the damage because it would be seen as harassment by the TT.
I feel powerless and unsupported by my PM. He put them in there but doesn’t seem to want to put in the extra work to keep them in line and poo poos my suggestion that surely we have enough grounds to evict given all that’s happened in such a short space of time, and that it appears to be getting worse.
Does anyone know of any TT cases that have succeeded with eviction based on cases such as ours? If I can show the PM that a precedence has been set and it was successful then surely he can’t argue? And YES before you mention It I am going to give him the heave ho but I want him to clean up this mess that he made first and get the pigs out of my house FIRST, I don’t want to step in halfway and potentially miss something and then find out that the TT thinks he should stay. That would knot my undies even more!
HELP. ALL ADVICE IS WELCOME ��
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