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Hi Richard, thanks for your response. My unit is in Bowen Hills. With such low vacancy rates within the building, it makes no sense to change my property manager. However, I have noticed an increase recently in websites offering DIY property management. Do you see these a threat to the resident-PM business model, or does the prospect of vacancy deter most landlords from pursuing the DIY method?
Hi Corey, thanks for your feedback. While on the one hand I agree, I also do not think these people should get away with it so lightly. Is there any law preventing me from creating a database-driven website into which landlords might share input their experiences in a factual manner e.g. tenant name, lease type, dates, damage caused, costs of repair, lost rent etc.?
I have a vague recollection of TICA being changed on the grounds of human rights (bad tenants unable to find accommodation), thereby greatly limiting the information available. Fair enough, in some respects, as there were probably some opinionated and bitter landlords contributing to the site. However, if the likes of yourself, Corey, continue to be subjected to such awful tenants, then the existing system is broken.
The idea is not too dissimilar to one which I read about a little back. It was about a former Wallaby hoping to create a “Karma” website, a sort of “Trip Advisor for Humans” (link here). The Tenant Rating website could be a little similar.
So, the question is, is there anything preventing me from making public the wrong-doings of tenants?
