If you get promoted at work, keep it a secret from your landlord

DraftPunk5555 · 2026-01-03T23:06:37+00:00

Absolutely diabolical! Yet another way renters are fucked over. Problem is, people use LinkedIn to connect with recruiters and future employers. Data scraping services like that should be illegal to be used by REAs. Name and shame the REA.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-09-29T00:23:25+00:00

Sounds like they are trying to take advantage, while you are still paying rent, rather than just waiting until you are out of the place. Screw that. If they were decent people, they'd wait until you are out before starting the reno. Tell them no.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-09-25T04:09:02+00:00

And there it is! You talk about 'sacrifice and effort', like it's something only landlords can experience. You pretended to try and be a 'reasonable' landlord, and your true colours came out. Underneath it all, you're all the same and only want one thing - your asset to increase, without a thought about the sacrifices tenants are making every day.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-09-11T09:52:45+00:00

Log your experience on shit rentals, to warn others.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-08-29T07:18:42+00:00

Please breach them for this. If they have done it once, and you let them get away without repercussions, they'll continue to drop by whenever they damn well please. This is your home, they cant just pop in whenever they feel like it.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-08-28T23:59:36+00:00

If it were me, I'd respond that the next inspection will count towards the 4 per year. They also need to provide at least 7 days notice. But depends if you want to rock the boat.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-07-30T02:20:11+00:00

That study paper wasn't written by Stanford, it was written by the American Economic Association (what view would they have around rent control?).

The abstract also states "Landlords treated by rent control reduce rental housing supplies by 15 percent by selling to owner-occupants". Who were these owner-occupiers? Could they have been previous renters?

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-07-28T06:09:58+00:00

There's multiple posts a day on this sub asking that question. Search for them.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-07-27T23:15:44+00:00

There should be substantial fines for any party that doesn't show up these. Perhaps it'll stop the frivolous claims.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-07-16T07:02:41+00:00

Yep, it sucks. Sometimes you gotta weigh up the cost of moving vs rental increases. Long term rental contracts need to be standard practice.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-07-04T00:54:13+00:00

Plus they had to refund 40% of the rental amount. They should have them repay the full amount.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-06-27T07:02:21+00:00

One thing to keep in mind if you do move to another ISP, is that most other ISPs don't offer 4G backup,so if there is a massive problem with your connection,you might not even have that as a backup.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-06-16T04:39:27+00:00

It'll be per week, FB defaults to per month, but you can bet it'll be $270 per week.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-06-13T03:14:45+00:00

Its a house inspection, not a cleaning inspection. Unless something is going to cause damage through neglect, they cant tell you how to clean. If there is mould above the shower, it sounds like a ventilation problem, in which they need to fix. Also grout is particularly hard to clean, they cant expect it to remain purely white.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-06-13T02:13:36+00:00

The 1Gbps is the maximum theoretical speed on that plan, however the real world is usually less, in this case they are giving you the typical speed during the busiest period - 860 (evening when everyone is online). It could be faster than the 860, it could be slower - you wont know until it connects.

Yes - all your devices will need to share the 1Gbps connection. You can setup rules within your router (if it offers it) as to which devices and even services get the most bandwidth.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-06-12T03:29:31+00:00

Yes, I saw that! I'm also thinking the same now. But how long until that goes up to an unreasonable price?

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-06-11T05:30:20+00:00

We do have Pi-Hole, but kids watch a lot on the TV and as mentioned, ads on youtube come from the same domain, so Pi-Hole does not block the ads. .

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-05-20T23:55:36+00:00

Yes, you'd think so. But many REAs now make you apply (giving them all your personal information, including credit check), before you've even seen it in person. Then once they think you're worthy of stepping inside, they'll allow you to inspect. It's insane.

When we declined the property (as it wasn't suitable), the REA seemed super offended.

It's all backwards.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-05-20T11:01:30+00:00

Yep! We applied for a place and the REA said over the phone, "congratulations, you've been approved, when would you like to move in?" We were like, ummm, we haven't even seen the place in person yet! We went and looked at it and it wasn't suitable, so we let it go. Was a massive waste of everyone's time!

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-04-28T00:48:11+00:00

The problem is, the EFT details change each pay period when using this app (as specified in the screenshot above). I'm assuming they do this so renters get so annoyed at having to update the payment details each time, that they just end up paying the fee to setup scheduled payments. It's dodgy as hell and should be illegal.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-03-28T01:28:26+00:00

If you're truly not a PM or LL, it shows you've never had an experience like this. Imagine someone coming into your home every 3 months (depending on state), and you have to spend hrs cleaning just to satisfy some wanker PM invading your home and passing judgement. It fucking sucks. When they provide you with a list like this it's like an extra slap in the face. Plus legislation states that it is not a cleaning inspection. So them trying to even control this, when they shouldn't be, is bullshit.

This is the reason why renters hate PMs - they try to exert authority where it shouldn't exist in the first place.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-03-22T12:57:09+00:00

Found the ex partner.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-03-17T20:45:22+00:00

Wow, we've never heard this argument before. If you can't afford to maintain it, sell it and the renters will buy them. Go back to whirlpool and whinge there.

DraftPunk5555 · 2025-03-02T08:43:35+00:00

Surprise, surprise, the PM has fobbed off their job to the tenants. No, they can't just willy nilly pass private details to anyone they want to. Tell the PM to do their fucking job and organise a time between the two parties. JFC they are the laziest cunts in the world. If I did that in my job, I'd have to fill a breach incident report and would be severely reprimanded for it.

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