Aussie landlords have revealed how they determine whether someone will be a good tenant – and some of their methods are very unusual.
These are pretty standard factors that you would expect landlords to be looking out for but there were also some strange, and downright shocking, suggestions in the comments.
One landlord advised against having “single women as tenants”.
“You run a risk with DV problems, boyfriends moving in etc., especially with the new DV laws,” he wrote.
In NSW, there are a number of rules in place to protect victims of domestic violence who are also renters.
Under the law, if a tenant or their dependent child are in circumstances of domestic violence, they can end their tenancy immediately without being penalised.
This means that the landlord cannot issue the victim with breach fees or costs for property damage caused by the domestic violence perpetrator.
A landlord is also not allowed to list information about a tenant in a tenancy database when the tenant has terminated the agreement in circumstances of domestic violence.