I have been renting for the past 3 years and for the first few months the property was managed by a real estate agent. I received an email from the agent saying that the property will no longer be managed by them and the owner will manage it directly. All payment were made directly to the owner after that. I had no agreement with the owner and was just paying monthly. No inspections were made in the 2 and a bit years that they were managing the property.
Once I decided to move out I notified the owner and his reply was that I need to give him 1 month notice (not sure if this is correct) I paid the extra month and moved out on the date that we agreed. During the last month that I had paid for he requested that he get people to come and see the property and I agreed to this to help him out.
Once we fully moved out he came and did a final inspection going of the report that the real estate agent did at the start and said the floor boards in the lounge room were damaged and he will get getting a report done on it. I told him the place is over 4 years old and normal were and tear conditions apply. He had someone come in and they had drilled into the floor boards for some odd reason. He came back to me saying that the damage is due to moist. There was no real damage on the floor boards. few floor boards had lifted a little bit in the corners that all that was wrong. You couldn't really see anything unless you rally looked into it.
He now wants to keep half the bond to have this fixed which I did not agree to and he wants to take it to vcat now.
What should I do and what are my options.
two parties disagree. we dont know which one are correct eventhough you are ozb member, need to hear both sides of story to be fair, so two options: just agree and move along and sad, or go to court (spend time and more money but -MAYBE- happy)