Help with some Landagent troubles??

[NORTI]

Hey all,

I had an inspection done recently, by a different rep from the land agent than normal. Now this person has decided that I can no longer have my cars stored under the carport (which has a locked roller door, not so they are visible from the road) & they have said I am unable to keep the spare rims + tyres I have stack against the shed wall.


I rang the residential tenancies tribunal who have said they are not allowed to tell me that, as long as the cars are not parked in a common area Ie flats etc, or blocking a rear exit from the house (they arent) then they are not allowed to tell me to remove them.

I was hoping this was the case. with this information I contacted the Land agents, now this is where I found out that it wasnt my normal agent, but someone else who did the inspection. Now they have decided all these things, adding that the whole house was 'grubby' Im more than a tad ****ed off about this, as I rented this house in a less than 'neat' state. There a numerous things I could complain about, but never had, & now Im wishing I did.



Bottom line is, the land agent has said I can not keep my cars quote 'because Im one person I do not need 3' & same goes for the tyres. They are saying they will cost too much to remove when I decide to skip rent & bail on them WTF? I just signed a new 12mths lease (3rd year) this week?

Her decision when I put to her than motorsport/cars was my hobby & yes I did 'need' the above items & that if my hobby was fishing & I had 20 fishing rods that they wouldnt ask me to remove them. Her answer was that fishing rods dont cost much to dispose of. So because my hobby is seen as expensive to clean for them, I lose it.


The best I can hope for is writing a letter to the owner & asking for them to allow me this.....??


WTF?? I have the RTT telling me they cant do this, but I want to play nice if possible & no be kicked out because of this.


So how do I word this letter? She advised me to offer the owner more bond, How much is reasonable?

[minux]

I wouldn't write a letter.

If you have signed a new Lease, they cannot remove you unless you refuse to pay. Even then it has to go to court.

If your lease agreement says you cannot do what they are saying then you can't do it, simple. However if there is no mention of it you can do what you like. The leases we have people sign for our properties has a motor vehicle clause within it that states you can't work on/store parts/ etc on the property. Of course this does not mean you can't keep things like spare head light globes etc etc.

I wouldn't change a thing, they cannot legally force you to do anything unless it stipulates the changes in a new lease that you sign. As for paying more bond, tell them to get ****ed, a bond is only a safety net, it never increases over the term of a lease once paid.


PS: My advice is save money and buy your own house...then you can do what you like.

[1vngal]

Thats sucks Norti, as far as I thought there isn't really much that they can do unless it is an eye sore to the public (which yuo said isn't as they are behind the carport), or stated on the lease that there must not any more that X amount of cars kept on the property. But they have no right to tell you what hobby you can and can't have.

I'd read through the lease, double check there is nothing like that stated, then write the letter. As to what to say in it, I dunno. But make sure you do your research before you write it. They have no right to tell you what hobby you can and can't have.

[NORTI]

I knew there was a clause in the lease in regards to parking cars on the front lawn, & I even enquired early on about washing cars, & no it says no cars ever, & thats cool, I stick to it. There was nothing else about cars in the lease. The land agent just tried to tell me there is a general clause in the leases about storing of car tyres? I cant find it & she wasnt able to tell me the numbers? she *thinks* its 4. As I have 12, thats too many (4x 16's, 4X 15's off the VN to go with it when it sells, & 4x cop rims, its not just 'tyres' )



Im a bit scared of telling them too bad they cant tell me to remove them, because I dont really want to have to fight about to stay.


As for the own house thing, I have been looking last couple of months, & I got offered permanency at work last week, so I had set my plans for around 12mths more here & then I should be in my own.


So really all I have to do is stick it out for another 12mths.


Im just a little upset that by early new year, I will have only the 1 car (possibly 2 if it takes a little while to sell it) so I really only need them to back off for a couple of months.

[evil_monkey]

man landagents give me the ****s, i had to rent a few years back when we were searching to buy a house it was a temporary open lease we managed to negotiate because we knew the owners of the property even though it went through a realestate agency only ended up staying 3 months.

now me n the missus cant stand living in a dirty house, so our houses are very clean, this house we were living in was a compleat craphole and there were huge cracks outside going down the the footings beyond repair basically the house needed to be knocked down none the less it was still clean inside the agent had nothing to pick on, he still wrote on the report "WINDOW TRACKS HAD DUST IN THEM CLEAN IMMEDIATLY AND RE-ASESS".

i couldent belive it reading the report i thought they where pulling my leg when i rang the agent they said that it was a legitimate thing they needed to worry about beacuse it can damage the windows when you open/close them i thought someone had slipped drugs in my food because its the most insane thing ive ever herd anyway after a few arguments we told them to stick the property up their ass luckily we were in the middle of settlement for our new home and moved in about a week later.

[vlv8vic]

Don't change a thing. If they have the power they will deal with it. If they can't then you wont lose at all.

The tenant is usually well over protected. Some of the crap i see around places amazes me that people can live like that but landies can't do a thing.