Could someone please tell me how much info an agent should disclose about an existing tenant in a property you are looking at purchasing. How much do we need to know and how much are entitled to know? Often an agent says we don’t manage the property, are we entitled to find out from who is such info?
They can only tell you what they can find on a tenant.
for example, I had a tenant who was a major problem – never paid on time, took weeks of small payments to be fully paid up and by that time it would be the next months rent due. In the end after giving them 2 or 3 months notice, whatever was required, we had to get a warrant for the cops to get them out. They left before the cops had to go knocking on the door, but the house stunk of animals and smoking, I still get mail to all the people that ahd been living there (there was only meant to be 2 adults and a kid) and if it wasn’t for teh fact I was ripping out all flooring and redoing inside I would’ve sued them for probably all they were worth (all $50 they had!!). anyway, I think you get the jist of the problems I was having.
BUT, I did not register an issue on the system that agents use because I just want to get them out of my house and make them someone elses problem. I don’t care if they go live in a drain or what, I just want them out. And once they were out, what was the point of me lodging a complaint. if these tenants found out i lodged a complaint then who knows what they would be capable of! so, the agents can only tell you what they find. there are hundreds of stories like mine that ahppen and never get lodged in the system.
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