Do I the landlord need to supply general pool chemicals for the pool at my rental property?
Mar 7th, 2010 by admin
Hi Im a landlord for a sydney property. Although I have paid for my tenants to do a course in pool care in which they have signed off on , My property manager still seems to want to charge me for salt, stabilizer etc…. Does anybody know what the law is when it comes to pool maintanance as I find the Fair Trading website vague when it comes to pool requirements.Thanks for your help guys.
Whatever choice, it would have to be clearly spelled out in the lease before it is signed. Tenants should be able to say yea or neigh and take that into consideration when renting.
Increase their rent,and use that money towards the chemicals needed.
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i’m an ex-landlord in America. Owned such a property in Phoenix, Arizona — seems like a reasonably similar climate.
here’s what I found worked after I took counsel from other landlords in my community.
We hired a pool service outfit and added the bill onto the tenant’s rent each month.
Maybe your Aussie tenants are more responsible than the run of Yank tenants we had, and ….
resurfacing a concrete in ground pool costs thousands of dollars. with proper care, it only needs doing once every 12 to 15 years. without that care, it can need doing within one or two years. That’s a lot of difference and a fair bit of money.
so we took the decision out of our tenant’s hands and hired a service [same for landscaping if it was more than ordinary] so we KNEW our asset would be looked after and kept up. [you don't want tenant laziness to damage your property.]
naturally, tenant pays. we’d add it onto the rent and collect it every month. Experience told us how much — about 125% of the standard monthly service fee.
and then there was no question of who paid for the chemicals — the service did and we paid them and the tenant paid us.
[In America, you'd not get a court to rule that the tenant had to pay for the resurfacing unless his neglect was obvious to even the most uninformed and then you'd have the almost impossible task of collecting from the tenant. tenants rent because they can't buy.]
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ex-landlord [Yank]
I wouldn’t expect the tenant to maintain the pool properly. There is too much they do do wrong to your pool.
Hire a pool service and figure that cost into the rental amount.
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you have to pay for the chemicals and such. but as suggested before it is probably easier for you to just hire someone to come clean the pool and include it in the rent. seems strange to me that you paid for the tenants to learn how to clean the pool?!? I work in real estate and am a tenant myself.
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Whatever choice, it would have to be clearly spelled out in the lease before it is signed. Tenants should be able to say yea or neigh and take that into consideration when renting.
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