April 20th, 2010 | by Ned

Life doesn’t always go as planned. This can sometimes affect your ability to complete the terms of your residential tenancy agreement (lease), like needing to break the lease early. You might have lost your job or broken up with your girlfriend or maybe once you’ve moved in you’ve found the house just isn’t right for you. [...]

April 19th, 2010 | by Ned

I found a great site yesterday dedicated to helping people who rent “lead an ecologically and environmentally sound existence”: GreenRenters.org. It’s full of advice for tenants and landlords on how to improve your homes green credentials including ways to grow your own food, reduce power consumption and waste. Better still it’s an Australian advice making the [...]

April 13th, 2010 | by Ned

So you’re currently renting a property through a real estate agent and you’ve had enough. They never return your calls, you can’t seem to get receipts for your rental payments and you’ve been trying to get the lock on the front door fixed for a month now. What if you could get rid of your real [...]

April 8th, 2010 | by Ned

So you’ve just bought an invest property and you want to rent it out yourself. Or perhaps you’ve been using a real estate agent to manage your property and have decided to take over the management yourself. Here are 8 important points to keep in mind to help you avoid some of the common pitfalls [...]

April 6th, 2010 | by Ned

Truecasa wants to see more privately managed rental properties and fewer real estate agent managed properties. But why would you make the decision to do it yourself? Here are 10 great reasons why you should become a private landlord for your rental property. 1. Save money on property management fees Typically real estate agents charge between 6% [...]