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Re: New Report Renters Sweltered This Summer
Reply #30 - Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:41pm

Frances wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:37pm:

Bobby. wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:10pm:

I think that landlords should provide air conditioning for tenants.

A box aircon only costs $500 -
that's chicken feed for a greedy landlord.

If you consider that a box aircon is "chicken feed" then the tenants can surely buy it themselves.

And do you have statistical information on how greedy landlords are?

Being a landlord won't make you wealthy unless you have multiple rental properties, and a large proportion of rental properties are owned by couples, more often than not retired, who have one or maybe two properties only. Also, it's not just a matter of raking in the money. there are expenses: agent's commissions, strata levies and, if you're unlucky, special levies, water bills insurance and general maintenance (say when anything goes wrong with the wiring, plumbing, water sealing in the shower and so on).

Owning a rental property is a good way of investing your cash in something that will retain its value and hopefully increase a bit as well. It is not a way to become wealthy, so stop speaking uninformed crap about landlords being greedy.

If I was a landlord I'd want my tenants to be comfortable.
I'd make sure they had an aircon.
I'm not a greedy bastard and I hope to go to heaven for being a kind person.

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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: New Report Renters Sweltered This Summer Reply #31 - Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:43pm Bobby. wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:41pm: If I was a landlord I'd want my tenants to be comfortable. I'd make sure they had an aircon. I'm not a greedy bastard and I hope to go to heaven for being a kind person. Maybe you might want to buy them a new car too, so they don't have to use public transport.
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Re: New Report Renters Sweltered This Summer
Reply #32 - Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:46pm

Frances wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:43pm:

Bobby. wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:41pm:

If I was a landlord I'd want my tenants to be comfortable.
I'd make sure they had an aircon.
I'm not a greedy bastard and I hope to go to heaven for being a kind person.

Maybe you might want to buy them a new car too, so they don't have to use public transport.

Come on - a box air con costs only $500. Roll Eyes

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Re: New Report Renters Sweltered This Summer
Reply #33 - Mar 21^st, 2024 at 9:01pm

I would willingly arrange repairs or replacements for anything connected with a property for tenants when they became necessary. I would not agree to buying them something that wasn't there when they inspected the property and signed the contract.

Landlords need to respect their tenants, but it goes both ways. Tenants should respect their landlord and not leech off them like parasites.

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Re: New Report Renters Sweltered This Summer
Reply #35 - Mar 22^nd, 2024 at 7:04am

Bobby. wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:02pm:

Frances wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 7:57pm:

Do you really think that landlords should provide airconditioning for tenants when the tenants inspected the property and agreed to the rental fees in the full knowledge that the premises did not have air conditioning?

The rental fees they would have signed up to surely would have been less that for an otherwise comparable property that did have properly installed air conditioning.

You can't demand anything other than repairs to existing appliances and fittings after you inspect the place, sign a contract and move in.

If someone rents a property with airconditioning and the airconditioner breaks down, the landlord should arrange for it to be repaired. If someone rents a property that isn't air conditioned and decides they need an airconditioner, then they should either get one themselves with their own money, or terminate the contract and move somewhere else.

With 50 people standing in line to rent even 1 bedroom flats? tsk tsk tsk ... Roll Eyes

Totally irrelevant to the questions asked of you Blooby.

If you're the one in that line up of 50 that is successful & becomes the tenant... then you are responsible for signing the contract/lease agreement if the 1 bedroom flat is not AC.

Good grief rented houses at one stage didn't even have ceiling fans either.

These clowns either want a roof over their heads or they don't?

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Re: New Report Renters Sweltered This Summer
Reply #36 - Mar 22^nd, 2024 at 7:10am

Bobby. wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:41pm:

Frances wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:37pm:

Bobby. wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:10pm:

I think that landlords should provide air conditioning for tenants.

A box aircon only costs $500 -
that's chicken feed for a greedy landlord.

If you consider that a box aircon is "chicken feed" then the tenants can surely buy it themselves.

And do you have statistical information on how greedy landlords are?

Being a landlord won't make you wealthy unless you have multiple rental properties, and a large proportion of rental properties are owned by couples, more often than not retired, who have one or maybe two properties only. Also, it's not just a matter of raking in the money. there are expenses: agent's commissions, strata levies and, if you're unlucky, special levies, water bills insurance and general maintenance (say when anything goes wrong with the wiring, plumbing, water sealing in the shower and so on).

Owning a rental property is a good way of investing your cash in something that will retain its value and hopefully increase a bit as well. It is not a way to become wealthy, so stop speaking uninformed crap about landlords being greedy.

If I was a landlord I'd want my tenants to be comfortable.
I'd make sure they had an aircon.
I'm not a greedy bastard and I hope to go to heaven for being a kind person.

Actually you may not be a greedy bastard but you surely are a dopey bastard.....

I suppose that won't be an impediment for you going to heaven.

It certainly would be an impediment for you being a Landlord.

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Re: New Report Renters Sweltered This Summer
Reply #37 - Mar 22^nd, 2024 at 7:12am

Frances wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 9:01pm:

I would willingly arrange repairs or replacements for anything connected with a property for tenants when they became necessary. I would not agree to buying them something that wasn't there when they inspected the property and signed the contract.

Landlords need to respect their tenants, but it goes both ways. Tenants should respect their landlord and not leech off them like parasites.

Blooby has tunnel vision - once he gets a mindset no amount of common sense explanations will get through.

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Re: New Report Renters Sweltered This Summer
Reply #38 - Mar 22^nd, 2024 at 9:46am

Bobby. wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:10pm:

Frances wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:06pm:

That's hardly an answer to my question.

I think that landlords should provide air conditioning for tenants.

A box aircon only costs $500 -
that's chicken feed for a greedy landlord.

You go borrow half a million dollars, rent it to someone then buy your tenants air con.

Or better yet, if $500 is nothing, you should provide some box air conditioning units for tenants near where you live. That way the landlord can concentrate on paying the mortgage.

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Re: New Report Renters Sweltered This Summer
Reply #39 - Mar 22^nd, 2024 at 9:51am

Bobby. wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:10pm:

Frances wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 8:06pm:

That's hardly an answer to my question.

I think that landlords should provide air conditioning for tenants.

A box aircon only costs $500 -
that's chicken feed for a greedy landlord.

Do you think tenants should have the right to rent a place without air conditioning?

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