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| Subject: Awww, the two laws OZschwitz landlords break every day Tue Mar 26, 2013 7:13 pm | |
| Hundreds of strata landlords are breaking the law. Make that thousands … Hell, make it tens of thousands – nobody really knows.
What we do know is that it clearly states in the NSW Strata Act that landlords have to give tenants a copy of their strata scheme's by-laws within seven days or cop a fine of up to $100.
And we know that landlords must tell their owners' corporation who they have let their unit to and who the agent is within 14 days of the lease starting or face fines of up to $500.
We are also certain a lot of landlords don't bother with either of these statutory duties. Many will leave it to their agents – those paragons of reliability – so you can bet that in many of the 200,000 to 300,000 strata lets in NSW, the law is being broken frequently and with impunity. Advertisement
This is a big issue in strata. Owners' corps frequently can't sort out problems with tenants because they don't know who the agent is. Tenants, often quite reasonably, claim they don't know they're breaching by-laws because they've never seen them.
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