I have recently seen lot of rental Ads on Facebook where the advertiser is putting one of the following restrictions
It's either a granny flat or house so no strata managed scheme.
Would it be classified as discriminatory and are there any laws that prohibit these kind of restrictions?
Ya know, it doesn’t actually work like that.
yes it does actually.
Landlords have strict rules to follow also. eg, certain amount of time/ notice before entry to property
No it doesn’t, there are rules that have to be followed by the Landlord.
Why would you want to live in some nutcase's granny flat anyway? What will they do if they notice you get wine delivered one day.
"No smokers" discriminatory
"No smoking" non-discriminatory
No alcohol drinking is odd.
Anyone who advertises a rental on Facebook is probably planning on murdering you Snowtown style.
Would you like someone to smoke inside your house that you paid hundreds of thousands or millions for? Or have pets that piss on your carpet and leave a smell throughout your house?
I would prefer not to have smokers but pets would be fine. Kids would cause a lot more damage.
very true, kids cause the most damage
No I would not want someone to piss on my carpets, thank you for this helpful hypothetical.
No problems, I was referring to pets not humans. Although in some neighbourhoods humans may partake in such activity as well.
alcohol thing is odd, but others are very common. my previous apartment had it, although some unit tenants had pets so I guess its upto individual landlord and nothing discriminatory.
Doesn't have to be religious. Hey I'd prefer a non drinker anyday if I can get one. That would typically attract a personality that maybe a better tenant in other ways too.
Alcohol, could have light coloured carpet and doesn’t want wine spilled on them - if a tenant damages a 7+ year old carpet in a rental property, they pretty much aren’t responsible regardless of what condition the carpet was in before they moved in.
And anyone who thinks kids do more damage than pets, clearly hasn’t rented out to a person with disobedient pet. I’ve had houses destroyed by both, I can promise you that the damage from pets is far worse
@AG_ACT - If carpet is that light, shoes and general usage would discolour it anyway. Wine/stains aren’t a problem so long as it’s cleaned up straight away. Carpet is fairly cheap these days.
Your house should be rented to someone you want…not who the goverment decides…unless the government is willing to pay for the house too? Instead of constantly raiding our wallets at every turn.
It would be funny to see how all these renters who are up in arms actually had properties themselves that they have borrowed hundred's of thousands for, would they allow smokers and pets to ruin their properties…fools have short sighted vision.
if less people bought more than one house and drove up the market maybe the 'million' dollar homes they bought for 50k 20 years ago would be more available and we wouldnt be buying them more houses with our rent money. IF WE'RE BUYING YOUR HOUSE FOR YOU WE CAN KEEP AS MANY PETS AS WE WANT TRY TO STOP US.
We live in a capitalist country sweetheart. Also, you're not buying my house for me… Please learn to think before commenting.
@sarahlump - Owning multiple properties doesn’t push prices up.
The person who’s willing to pay the highest will get it.
Blame to government for their poor housing property, mass immigration policy and the RBA for lowering rates.
It’s tenants like you who ruin it for landlords and thus the next renter. As landlords will be hesitant to rent to someone with a pet. It’s a 2 way street, both parties need each other.
No pets?
Mercy, I'd rather rent to a pet owner than someone with kids… Have you seen the damage those little Semen Demons can do to a property?
Sod that.
I’d love to hear your childhood stories. Were you home schooled too? It’s a big bad world out there isn’t it?
no persons who consume wood fire pizza
Mumma-mia thea landalorda justa fukcus!
I’ve seen ads where they say no drinking. I simply mark them as unsuitable to me and move on. It’s mostly on sites like flatmates and fairy floss though so it is not even necessarily the landlord, it is the other flatmates.
If it is a religious thing then they can and should target other members of their community. Nothing wrong with that.
Personally I’d look elsewhere unless the house was perfect in every other way, in which case I’d ask what they mean by that. It could just mean no rowdy pre drinks or parties but a beer or glass of red with your dinner is fine.
The no pets is just silly. Offer extra and have a clause in the lease that means you need to pay if they destroy something.
No strata managed is a ticking bomb.
With strata managed we already have problems here and there.
If you are an international student or looking to save some money with cheap rent, accept the rules and consequences.
No pets is bullshit, people destroy in such scale that there's no other life on Earth able to destroy as much.
No parties I agree, but prohibiting alcohol all together is bullshit.
I agree with smoke, it destroy everything with the smell and things get yellow. Do you wanna smoke? Go to hell to smoke it them.
For the matter tho, In NSW at least there's no law prohibiting pets anymore via strata. Some will still say no of course but there's no law backing them up, but there's one now backing up tenants with pets.
@whiiisky - NSW got it wrong with the pets.
Tenants should have to put forward an application to Strata/Owners for them to approve or reject. Some apartments have horrible sound proofing. A loud animal impacts people around you and it’s not right to disrupt others.
I am sorry, I disagree.
I live in a Meriton unit, do you have any idea of all the noise people do???
1-3AM people jumping, dragging chairs, slamming doors, you name it.
A pet won't be closer to all the headaches I have had with the neighbours.
Human is the problem, no the animals.
You can't say no to someone who has a support or disability dog. Even if the ad says no dogs.
Wont get far in Victoria, Dan Andrews, wants tenants to enjoy the rental property like their own hence, cannot ban pets, tenants can paint feature walls and hang pictures.
if they own the place they can set any rules they want
dont like it? find another place