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Inspections
24 June 2026
6 min read
Condition reports: twenty minutes that decide the bond
The ingoing report is the only document written before anyone has a reason to disagree. That is what makes it worth doing slowly.
NSW · VIC
Written for people who manage their own rentals
Self-managing is a records problem.
Australian guides on the paperwork that decides bond disputes, tribunal hearings and tax time — one repeatable habit at a time, with the state it applies to on the label.
Inspections
3 June 2026
6 min read
The routine inspection, done properly
Most inspections check whether the house is tidy. The useful ones check four specific things, and tidiness is not one of them.
NSW · VIC
Leases
20 May 2026
6 min read
What actually has to be in a tenancy agreement
The standard form covers more than most landlords realise, and the extra clauses people add are often the ones that will not hold.
NSW · VIC
Leases
29 Apr 2026
5 min read
The ninety days before a lease ends
Almost every expensive end-of-tenancy outcome traces back to a decision that should have been made three months earlier.
NSW · VIC
Compliance
8 Apr 2026
6 min read
Boarding house rules in NSW, in plain English
What registrable operators need to know about the register, the occupancy principles, and the records a council will ask for.
NSW
Tenants & rent
18 Mar 2026
6 min read
Reading a rental application without guessing
Three checks decide almost everything, and several of the questions landlords ask instinctively are ones they are not allowed to ask at all.
All states
Tenants & rent
25 Feb 2026
5 min read
How to price a room, not a house
Pricing a whole property is comparison. Pricing individual rooms is arithmetic, because no two rooms in a sharehouse are equal.
All states
Tenants & rent
4 Feb 2026
5 min read
Five ways to reduce turnover in a sharehouse
Turnover is the quiet killer of sharehouse margins, and almost all of it is caused by things that are cheap to fix.
All states
