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Residential Tenancies Authority News September 2019
Author/s
RTA Qld
Abstract
- Rental offenders put on notice
- Navigate the rental market with ease
- Renting? Protect your privacy – ensure the RTA has your individual email address
- Reminder: Solar for rentals trial available in Bundaberg, Gladstone and Townsville
- RTA webinar: Investigations
- Let’s talk renting – RTA touching down in Townsville for tenancy event series
- Multilingual resources available for RTA customers
- How long can a fixed term lease run for?
- RTA median rent data helps inform Queenslanders’ renting choices
- RTA webinar: Ending a tenancy
- What happens in dispute resolution at the RTA?
- Lodge and pay your bond online
- Ending a tenancy agreement
- RTA webinar: Starting a tenancy on the right foot
- Quiet enjoyment – what does it mean in a tenancy?
- Free tenancy training helps renters stand out from the crowd
- Using tenancy databases accurately and fairly
- Responding to domestic and family violence
- Rental information on tap – your water charges explained
- Solar for rentals giving tenants access to solar power
- Winter is coming: don’t be caught by surprise!
- Gympie landlord prosecuted after land-clearing works at tenants’ acreage home
- Two commandments for apartment and body corporate living
- RTA tenancy agreement forms updated
- General inspections – how to ensure a hassle-free experience
- RTA online forms to improve convenience for our customers
- Rental Recovery Hub to boost Townsville flood response
- RTA ramps up flood recovery support
- Stay in the loop with updates on the next phase of Open Doors to Renting Reform
- Read the refreshed pocket guide for tenants (Form 17a)
- Top tips when vacating a rental home
- House-hunting checklist for students
- Real estate agent jailed after joint prosecution
- Living free from violence is every tenant’s right
- Complete Bond lodgement (Form 2) for successful submission
- Caution: storms, floods and cyclones ahead!
- Ending an agreement early
- Let’s Spring into action
- The latest version of 17b pocket guide is now available online.
- RTA successful in Queensland-first prosecution
- Don’t enter rental premises through the back door
- Renting caravans, sites and cabins: what agreement should you use?
- Getting your agreements right
- Media statement: Bond, Operation Bond
- It pays to know your rights on rent payments
- Rent increases: know the law before you make the call
- Pocket guide for tenants (17a) – updated
- Landlords in Mackay – Get the facts from a free seminar
- Opening Doors: A toolkit for finding private rentals
- Get the facts on special terms
- Don’t expose yourself – or your tenants
- RTA increases its prosecutions
- RTA blitz issues record infringement notices
- Townsville real estate agents fined $8.5k for breaching rental laws
- Queensland real estate agency fined $10k with a criminal conviction recorded
- Should carpet cleaning be included as a special term?
- Emergency repairs: who’s responsible?
- Brisbane property owner prosecuted for breaching rental laws
- Exit this way: remember the condition report
- Don’t get tripped up when sub-letting
- Bond disputes best resolved out of court
- Unclaimed bonds: remember to update your details
- Who is responsible for mould in a rental property?
- Partnership to keep rental market fair
- Ask the RTA – noisy dog
- Increasing the rent in rooming accommodation
- Documents the caravan park tenant should have
- Removal of graffiti
- Seizure of a resident’s goods for rent
- Rentals and robberies
- Broken windows
- Warrant of possession – the last straw
- Breaking a lease
- Holding deposits
- Security in rooming accommodation
- Moving on fairly
- Jump into pool safety
- You and your caravan – who’s responsible for emergency repairs?
- Friends – how many is too many?
- Fur babies creating a storm
- Hosing down disputes over water charging
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