Residential Tenancy Inspection Report

This assignment focuses on a residential tenancy inspection report form. The document outlines various aspects of a property that are inspected, including the garden, lawn, letterbox, water tanks, garbage bins, and both internal and external painting. It also mentions floorcoverings and requires signatures from both the lessor/property manager and the tenant. Students are expected to review this form carefully, understanding its content and purpose in the context of residential tenancy agreements.

Running head: LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES
Legal and Ethical Issues
Name of the student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Following documentation for this tenancy
A. RESIDENCY TENANCY AGREEMENT (Fixed Term)
The agreement
Between
Mr John Doe
Phone number - ,
Mail address - 6 Warra St, Somewhere 1234 (“The Tenant”)
Annette Jayne Peppertree
Phone number - ,
Mail address - 11/23 Ross St, Elsewhere 1245 (“the landlord”)
AND
 The landlords agrees to let and the tenant agrees to take the premises situated at 15 Verity Street
Somewhere 1234 with the furniture and other fittings described in the inventory hereto for the term of
12 months for a term of 12 month tenancy that is 365 days, commencing from the day 1st of January
2016 till 31st of December, 2016. The rent agreed between the parties is to be paid in advance on weekly
basis on every Friday of each fortnight. The agreed rent is 400 dollars per week. Rent is to be directly
credited to the bank account having details as follows (Knuutinen 2014).
 The agency which took the role is the ABC Pty Ltd Trading as ABC Real Estate having Agency having
ABN Number 12345678 and Agency License No123456. The agency account is at the address10

2LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES
Railway Street, Somewhere 1234. The Payment reference should be mentioned a rent (Council et al.
2016).
 The agency manages the property on behalf of a landlord and charges them agency fee which is going to
attract the management fees over this twelve month period. The fee charged by the agent is $ 400 per
week which is including 7.7% including GST. The licensing fee paid to the agency is equivalent to one
week fees. It will pay a deposit in the sum of amount and shall be retained by the landlord in the account
and will be returned to the tenant upon completion of terms with the accrued interest after deduction of
any compensation upon breach of obligation partly or wholly if any (Dabara 2014)
 The landlord authorizes that the managing agent will have a budget of $1000 and it will spend on the
repairs and maintenance without having to go back to the landlord for approval.
 The landlord authorizes the managing agent to pay council rates, water rates and repairs and
maintenance invoices from the rental income
 The tenant will pay a advance fees for two weeks and the rent in advance which is paid at dollar 800
Whereby it is agreed as follows:
 The property owner has the full authority to discontinue this agreement upon giving a notice for one
month in advance (Wu and Fulong 2016).
 If the Tenants abide by the norms that are being mentioned above and continue to peacefully reside, in
that case he will not wave off this agreement (McKee and Connie 2016)
 He will not intervene as long as the tenants continue obey the norms
The property owner has agreed to continue with the agreement that was previously made without making any
changes to it.

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B. RENTAL BOND LODGEMENT
Bond lodgement (Form )
Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008
(Sections 116 –119)
Only tenants/residents who pay bond, and the property manager/owner, should fill out this form.
1 Address of rental property (rooming accommodation: include room number)
New bond
Existing rental bond number
15 Verity Street
Somewhere
1234
Postcode
2 Agreement starts 1/ 1 /16 Agreement ends 1/ 12/16
3 Number of bedrooms 3
4 Type of dwelling
Residential Flat/unit House Townhouse
Tenancy
Moveable dwelling/site Moveable dwelling/site with electricity supplied and individually metered
OR
Rooming
Boarding house Supported accommodation Student rooming accommodation
Accommodation
5 Type of management
Residential Owner Property manager Moveable dwelling owner/manager

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Tenancy
Social housing organisation Other
OR
Rooming
Owner Manager/provider Real estate agent Other
Accommodation
6 Property manager/owner
Full name/trading name ABC
Pty Ltd Trading as ABC
Real Estate
ABN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 RTA ID (if known) 123456
Postal address 10 Railway
Street, Somewhere 1234
Postcode
Phone Mobile Date / / Signature
Email
tick if you agree to receive
RTA notices by email
7 Payment method
Cheque/money order BPAY (Payment reference will be emailed)
8 rent and bond
Total bond Weekly rent Bond paid with this form
$1
60
0
$
40
0 $
9.Tenants/residents who have paid bond money (include individual amounts)
First name/s
Mr
Joh
n Last name Doe
$
40
0
Date of birth / / Phone Mobile

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RTA ID (if known) Date / / Signature
Email
tick if you agree to receive
RTA notices by email
First name/s Last name $
Date of birth / / Phone Mobile
RTA ID (if known) Date / / Signature
Email
tick if you agree to receive
RTA notices by email

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C. PROPERTY CONDITION REPORT
Address of residential premises: 15 Verity Street Somewhere 1234
ENTRY
Clean Undamaged Working Tenant agrees Comments
front door Yes
screen door/security door Yes
walls/picture hooks Yes
windows/screens Yes
Ceiling Yes
light fittings Yes
blinds/curtains Yes
power points Yes
floorcoverings Yes
LOUNGE ROOM
Clean Undamaged Working Tenant agrees Comments
doors/doorway frames Yes
walls/picture hooks Yes
windows/screens Yes
Ceiling Yes
light fittings Yes
blinds/curtains Yes
TV/power points Yes

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floorcoverings Yes
DINING ROOM
Clean Undamaged Working Tenant agrees Comments
doors/doorway frames Yes
walls/picture hooks Yes
windows/screens Yes
Ceiling Yes
light fittings Yes
blinds/curtains Yes
power points Yes
floorcoverings Yes

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KITCHEN Clean Undamaged Working Tenant agrees Comments
Doors/doorway frames Yes
walls/picture hooks Yes
windows/screens Yes
Ceiling Yes
light fittings Yes
blinds/curtains Yes
power points Yes
floorcoverings Yes
cupboards/drawers Yes
bench tops/tiling Yes
sink/taps Yes
stove top/hot plates Yes
oven/griller Yes
exhaust fan/range hood Yes
EACH BEDROOM
Clean Undamaged Working Tenant agrees Comments
doors/doorway frames Yes
walls/picture hooks Yes
windows/screens Yes
Ceiling Yes

9LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES
light fittings Yes
blinds/curtains Yes
power points Yes
floorcoverings Yes
EACH BATHROOM Clean Undamaged Working Tenant agrees Comments
doors/doorway frames Yes
walls/tiles Yes
windows/screens Yes
Ceiling Yes
light fittings Yes
blinds/curtains Yes

1
0
LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES
SECURITY/ SAFETY Clean Undamaged Working Tenant agrees Comments
smoke alarms Yes
electrical safety switch Yes
keys/other opening devices Yes
GENERAL
Clean Undamaged Working Tenant agrees Comments
Garden Yes
lawn/edges Yes
letterbox/street number Yes
water tanks/septic tanks Yes
garbage bins Yes

Running head: PROPERTY AND LEASE
Painting of premises (external):
_________________________________________________________
Painting of premises
(internal):_________________________________________________________
Floorcoverings laid:
__________________________________________________________________
Floorcoverings professionally cleaned:
__________________________________________________
Note: Further items and comments may be recorded on a separate sheet, signed by the
lessor/property manager and the tenant, and attached to this report.
Signed by the LESSOR/PROPERTY MANAGER
__________________________________________________________Date:
_____/_______/_______
[Signature of lessor/property manager]
Signed by the TENANT
__________________________________________________________Date:
_____/_______/_______
[Signature of tenant]

1PROPERTY AND LEASE
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