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We need national laws for all real estate.
Third party mandated inspections for all properties listed for lease would cause some delightful dumpster fires
Hmm my only fear with that is that we would be dragged down to the lowest common denominator. Could you imagine what would happen if the federal coalition was in charge of administering the rental market?!
But I’ll add:
I'm with you on this but I doubt the incentives are there for the agents to chase up the owner / strata company for these plans.
Have you tried searching for the same address in the buy section of realestate.com.au? There are a lot of properties that have recently sold that still have images from when it was sold which includes a floor plan.
this is what I had to resort to when I was sharehousing.
Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately many of the ones I want to find are "no longer listed" and the internet archive didn't have any snapshots.
Could just require a copy of the plans when filing a title.
++ with the exact section you will be renting highlighted.
Too many properties are listed by the number of rooms of the entire property, not the section you will be renting.
I would like to see mandatory upgrades of hot water / heating / cooling. I have been looking at many places recently and there's no incentive for the landlord to upgrade the inefficient systems because the tenant pays the cost.
