Perth Property Insider Ep. 52 – Proposed Changes to Residential Tenancy Act With Jewayne Loong

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Anyone who has ever been a tenant or a landlord is governed by the Residential Tenancy Act and there are proposed changes in the works that will have a big impact on everyone.

Jewayne Loong is here with us once again to go into what the proposed changes practically mean for investors and tenants. We deep dive into the details, and make sure you are across what is likely to come.

It may come as no surprise that things are going more in favor of supporting tenants’ rights, which is not all bad if they are well thought out and clear to implement.  

Let’s jump into today’s discussion and be sure to tune in until the end to hear a few of the potential changes that would actually benefit investors.

Highlights:

  1. Introduction [0:00]
  2. Changing the law about keeping pets in rental properties [4:19]
  3. How tenants and landlords alike are going to be affected by the aforementioned change of law [5:27]
  4. Should a landlord give certain information to a tenant before signing a tenancy agreement? [8:15]
  5. Should there be full disclosure about issues concerning the rental property? [9:53]
  6. Keeping a public database of blacklisted landlords? [11:01]
  7. Educating landlords on the best practices around information, storage & privacy [13:15]
  8. Encouraging landlords to offer longer leases [14:07]
  9. The disadvantage of having a longer lease contract when your tenant is not ideal [17:47]
  10. How often should rent increases be implemented? [21:41]
  11. Maintenance and handling of repairs [25:11]
  12. Removing the “no grounds” termination by landlords from the Residential Tenancy Act [30:59]
  13. Keeping/replacing/moving tenants with regards to the property being sold or having a new owner/investor [32:28]
  14. Giving a 60 day notice instead of the previous 30 day notice if the property is sold [34:51]
  15. About the termination of a fixed term agreement by a tenant [36:28]
  16. About abandoned goods and speeding up the bond release process [39:26]
  17. Resolving disputes [40:57]
  18. Making willful damage to property an offense under the Residential Tenancy Act [42:43]
  19. Ending the tenancy(or perhaps have other options) if the tenant is repeatedly paying rent late [45:59]
  20. What’s the overall effect of the proposed changes on both landlords and tenants? [50:57]

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3 thoughts on “Perth Property Insider Ep. 52 – Proposed Changes to Residential Tenancy Act With Jewayne Loong

  1. Where have the proposed changes been published.

    As a tenant I don’t have a problem with the above. I see no reason to change the act in terms of a property owners right to get rid of tenant, its there property, current terms are fine.

    I do find an issue..

    1. with property managers having arrangements with the magistrates court to fast track a bond dispute and get orders with out evidence. Ie. Without providing the actual lease agreement.

    Had a situation where:

    Tennant: Joe Beiggs
    Lessor: pfg pty ltd

    Court orders to release bond to an individual, no documents served, tenant contacted rea to confirm email service was fine, over Christmas period when rea was aware was on holiday. I mean I have no words… still trying to sort it out.

    2. A REA breaches and there seems to be no consequences, tenant breaches has to vacate… I mean you guys must just giggle when a tennant serves a breach.

    3. Tenancy should generally not end up in court, we all know tenants are likely to shy away from legal procedures, especially families and single parents having to self re and being time poor. REAs seem to acquaint themselves with the magistrates court on a weekly basis knowing exactly this. Essentially using the magistrates court to do there job.. with no evidence.. crazy. (Think this was kind of addressed in the above but not adequatly).

    5. Application and rent payment processes. Can you all just decide on one application app and one payment app. I would be happy to pay the fee if the payment app facilitated property reports.. ie. An easy way to record the property report and both note condition and sign of and agree. This would also keep a track of any issues which occur, repairs and maintenance agree on liability as they occur. But reas probs wouldn’t like something like that as it would make there case at magistrates court a little more difficult.. or hey.. they might even not proceed to magistrates court and actually negotiate before wasting wa state gov resources.

    6. With more strata properties there has to be more clarity, strata and REA using security cameras to tell you off for just missing the garbage truck is pretty rank behaviour… considering they watched you running with the bin to try and make it…. understand if repetitive.. but still security cameras are there for for security. Owner/residents leaving notes on your car to park further on the otherside of your carpark, which is already undersized, a bit rough.. but I’m sure they can quite clearly see me park in my spot via the security cameras 🤔.. hence the notes… on what basis can owners/tennants access camera footage?

    Let’s be fair here… for a property investor the investment is long term and property management fees are tax deductible, for the rea they get a future property investor as aclient and a fee for managing the property. The Tennant gets a temporary home, rent is not tax deductible… mind you I would have liked to make that argument with centrelink when I was on parenting payment and having to pay tax.

    Oh and the last thing I will throw in.. investment advice and the thin red line. Property managers should be increasing rent yearly with inflation.. this I don’t consider investment advice. What I wouldn’t be surprised is if a red flag has gone up with asic over this period when rents are being put up between 20 to 50 percent without previous property manager of diligently assessing rental prices previously.. you guys might have sug your own on whole with that one.. but who knows..

    I I think that’s all I have to say about that…
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    4. 4.

  2. Also, when a tennant is forced/pressuered to pay for new fixtures and fittings, the invoice should not be used as a property expense for the lessor, this is tax avoidance/false reporting and without question illegal for the lessor, property managers should diligently ensure the invoice is directed to the party that pays? If the property manager believes its the tennant fault, they should be dealing with the tenant directly, they should not be getting the invoice made out to the lessor then later claim it back from bond monies, or put of fixing things until the tenaant leaves. The second Alan invoice is written out to a lessor it is the lessors liability.

  3. Argh that is not good. My daughter has asthma and eczema and reacts to both dog and cat dander.

    How will I know whether a property is ‚contaminated‘ or not? I guess carpets will become a thing of the past.

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