Recently, NSW Fair Trading modified its well known “Strata Living” handbook to indicate that by-laws prohibiting short term lettings are invalid.
But, has Fair Trading got it wrong? Are anti-Airbnb by-laws valid?
For further details please click Short Term Letting and Fair Trading
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There has been considerable recent media coverage concerning proposed changes to laws regulating short term lettings in apartment buildings in NSW.
Many in the media are saying that owners corporations are going to lose the right to prohibit short term lettings in their buildings. Is that right? What does the NSW Government really have in store for short term lettings?
To read the full article – Short Term Lettings – Changes in the Air
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Is the NSW Parliament about to legalise short term holiday lettings?
It’s proposed that some types of short term holiday lettings should become legal in NSW without needing the approval of the local council or the owners corporation if the City of Sydney has its way.
View the full article here now – Short Term Letting Changes
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Short term lettings might void strata insurance policies leaving no cover for property damage caused to strata apartments and common property by unruly tennants.
This issue came to the fore again last month when a Canadian couple returned to their property to discover it had been wrecked by visitors who had booked the property via the popular Airbnb site.
Unfortunately, short term lettings of strata units are becoming a major contributor to building disharmony with the current law not providing effective solutions.
At JS Mueller & Co we believe each building is different and that the problem of short term lettings can only be dealt with properly by way of specific by-laws giving owners corporations greater powers to deal with the problem.
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Short term tenancies have long posed problems for community living. The problem most commonly arises in communities where there is a mixture of permanent residents and short term tenants. Issues of noise, damage to common property and inappropriate behaviour are often attributed to short term tenants. Short term tenants vary from backpackers to holidaymakers to short term workers.
Strata schemes have tried to both regulate short term tenants and prohibit short term tenancies by use of by-laws.
Effectively regulating the behaviour of short term tenants has proved difficult. Short term tenants are exactly that, short term, and are not generally around long enough to be effectively subjected to the laborious and lengthy procedures set out in the Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 (“the Act”) for enforcement of by-laws.
Click below to download the presentation and full paper on Short Term Tenancies from our April 2015 seminar:
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As any Airbnb (and similar sites) convert will attest, where there’s a spare bed, there’s money to be made. But while the rise and rise of short-term letting sites have delivered a windfall to many apartment-owners for some, its days – or nights – may be numbered.
Many residential committees are hitting back at apartment owners who sublet their lot’s, blaming loud parties and bad behaviour for the move to stamp out the unofficial ‘bed-and-breakfast’ businesses.
It’s apparent that many Australians are fed up with the issues surrounding short term letting and are looking for solutions.
Bruce Bentley, expert Strata Lawyer provides ‘eleven steps to combat short term living’ inclusive of case studies and a podcast. Click below to download his paper inclusive of case studies.
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