Landlords, Tenants, Renting and Management (Page 12)

Information about renting units

Contributed By: Real Strategix on

Unfortunately, in this day and age, it is almost necessary for an Onsite Manager or leasing consultant to complete a course in self-defence along with their registration. I began asking Onsite Managers if any have had scary encounters whilst at a tenant’s premises.  Statistically speaking, 1 in 5 had some sort of scare.  I personally, have been pushed against a wall, whilst carrying out an exit inspection, by the outgoing tenant.  This drew me to the conclusion to NEVER agree to conduct the inspection with them present. Routine inspections, if carried out correctly, should be fairly straight forward and the tenant should, in most instances,Read More →

We are definitely seeing more and more management rights businesses being created without the need to own a piece of real estate with them. This is particularly the case in new off the plan developments. Some of these are large enough to be purely standalone businesses, but most of them in smaller schemes seem to be designed to be able to operate on a standalone basis, but also as a ‘bolt on’ to an existing management rights business. We have written previously about things you need to consider when thinking about separating your management lot from your management rights business here. The key theme thereRead More →

Contributed By: TheOnsiteManager on

It’s becoming an all-too-frequent occurrence these days that photographers contact us, quite upset, because someone has violated their copyright on images and floor plans in property marketing. When we contact the manager to inform them of the breach, the response is invariably the statement: “but the vendor / owner / previous manager gave those images to me to use!” Unfortunately, this couldn’t be further from the truth and managers are often shocked to discover this. Under copyright law in Australia, copyright exists automatically once an artist creates a work, be it a photo, drawing, video, etc. Copyright grants the original artist the right to reproduce orRead More →

Are you overwhelmed by the day to day running of your property management business and looking for a proven streamlined system? ‘Property Management Dominance’ is a simple, effective, practical, easy to implement & most importantly proven property management system put together by an award winning property manager & business owner. Property Management Dominance is a step-by-step guide to the art & business of property management. It is based on almost 20 years of practical experience by an award winning property manager. Most property management systems & training can be over complicated & hard to follow. ‘Property Management Dominance’ is designed to assist the beginner to the most experienced of property professional with easy to follow mapped out procedures.Read More →

Contributed By: Barclay MiS on

We often hear complaints from our clients that when they attend Tribunal and /or Court, that they are not awarded any compensation, for instance, for the time taken to prepare an application to Tribunal/Court, or for the time taken in attendance at the Tribunal/Court. Many Property Managers have stated to us that when at Tribunal/Court they have applied for these items as compensation but it has been rejected. Certainly the management agreement between your agency and the landlord provides that the landlord will be responsible for your professional costs in preparation and attendance at Tribunal/Court, however the fact is that that agreement is between youRead More →

Contributed By: TheOnsiteManager on

A lot of what we do at TheOnsiteManager, is market complex rentals, and residential sales for onsite managers like you. In fact our office markets thousands of listings per year for onsite managers. So it’s safe to say, we do a lot of marketing. One of the questions I get asked time and again by our managers is how to generate more enquiries from marketing. Here’s what I’ve learned. The first thing to remember is that RealEstate.com.au’s search results are very clean. In fact there’s only 2 things you can edit that display in the search results: the rent (or sale price) and the main photograph.Basically, thoseRead More →

Contributed By: Real Strategix on

Unfortunately, in this day and age, it is almost necessary for an Onsite Manager or leasing consultant to complete a course in self-defence along with their registration. I began asking Onsite Managers if any have had scary encounters whilst at a tenant’s premises. Statistically speaking, 1 in 5 had some sort of scare. I personally, have been pushed against a wall, whilst carrying out an exit inspection, by the outgoing tenant. This drew me to the conclusion to NEVER agree to conduct the inspection with them present. Routine inspections, if carried out correctly, should be fairly straight forward and the tenant should, in most instances,Read More →

Whether it is routine maintenance, emergency repairs, lease renewals or property vacancies, you will always have the landlord asking you to explain the necessity and costs involved. Property Management over the last decade has become much harder, and time consuming, as legislation has changed and people are taking others to tribunal over the smallest of things. The first lease I prepared was in 1997. It was typed on a typewriter with carbon copies, and there was no such thing as inventories, CMA’s or online bookings. If someone had told me that in 18 years’ time that we would be arranging smoke alarms to be checked for every new lease IRead More →

Contributed By: TheOnsiteManager on

As a new service to our onsite managers we have begun compiling a library of useful documents that assist in the day-to-day running of Management Rights. We’ve compiled these documents into a single location accessed under your account drop-down. Simply login and select USEFUL FORMS from the dropdown. Here you’ll find: The latest Form6 authority ready to give to your new owners and vendors to transact sales and manage listings. A pre-completed Form6 authorizing our agency to act. A blank Contract Of Sale document to sell community titled lots (ie: units) A blank Contract Of Sale document to sell a house A Tenant Application FormRead More →

Contributed By: TheOnsiteManager on

Imagine being able to seamlessly manage your rental marketing inventory, directly from your trust accounting system. Now you can! As a trust accounting system, Console already knows when your leases are going to end, when new rentals need to be advertised, when new leases are signed. All the information relating to every property in the complex letting pool is already contained within Console. Now, at the push of a button, this information can be instantly shared onto TheOnsiteManager for seamless marketing management across our entire agency. Your tenant is moving out and just gave 2 weeks’ notice, at the push of a button Console canRead More →

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