More policing of landlords ‘total waste of money’

The money allocated in the Budget is to support timely access to tenancy and unit title dispute resolution services; processing of bond transactions; implementation of tenancy reforms; increased awareness of parties’ rights and responsibilities; and proactive monitoring and investigation of rentals to identify and address systemic non-compliance and reduce the risk of vulnerable tenants being exposed to harm.

Property Investors Federation president Andrew King says $16 million to be spent increasing investigations of rental properties to ensure healthy homes are realised is a total waste of money.

“Landlords are generally following the legislation and getting advice where they have failed inspections, many of them around heat pumps, which has become an issue.

“This is an area where landlords are having to rip out perfectly good heat pumps and install new or extra pumps to meet the Healthy Homes legislation only to find tenants don’t want them because of rising power bills, is a problem.”