Highlight Report (Sep 2021)

Plan (Sep 2021)

  • Tenancy Agreement IV (2020/21) expires August 31st 2021.

  • Owners report to tenant the apartment is selling. And they’re discussing renewing tenancy.

  • Owners send written notice to tenant about contract expiration.

Performance (Sep 2021)

Tenant Offer


  • Tenant offers to pay final 2 months (Jul/Aug) e.g. $1k.

  • Tenant asks 1 more month to make payment on the 28th (as has been the case since April 2018). Before switching to paying on the 1st of the month.

  • Repair work to be handled by Tenant during new tenancy.

Owner Counter-Offer


Aug-31 - Owner demands payment for new contract be made before the 15th in the first month.

And the contract be 6 months, not 12 months.

Contract 0.0.0 - tenant loses deposit if tenant gives notice to leave

  • tenants deposit cant be used for rent, only repairs

Issues (Sep 2021)

**2021-Sep-16* - Owner produced a receipt, ahead of any payment, saying payment is for missing payment.

  • This will mean the Tenants payment for September for the new contract, will be allocated to a “missing payment” relating to the old contract - leaving September payment outstanding. In addition, October will be due on the 1st October. So After paying $1k for July/Aug, And another $500 for September, used instead for a missing payment ($1500 in total), a further payment is expected to be demanded for September and October (a further $1k). And the repair work is being quoted. An additional $1k. That’s $1k Aug + $500 Sep/”missing payment” + $1k Sep/Oct + $1k repair = That’s $3,500 the landlord is expecting, in the space of a few weeks. In fact, funds for a month of the old contract was borrowed. So the lender has to be paid back and the landlord wants paying again. That’s an additional cost of $1k. So $4,500 in the space of a few weeks. Extortion !!!

  • Landlord has not specified which month a payment was missed on the old contract. Only that a payment is missing.

2021-Sep-16 - Tenant wishes to further query the Owners alledged “missing payment” from the last contract. Which month ?

  • Dispute the use of the first payment of the new contract for this alledged mysterious “missing payment”.

  • Condition of the $1k sent on the 30th Aug was that is was for final settlement of the old contract. It’s even specified on the bank transfer.

Future Plans (Oct 2021)

  • Solve the mystery of the missing payment once and for all

  • At least differ the matter, treat it as a seperate matter - since it’s being disputed.

  • Not write receipts ahead of payment saying that’s what the payment is for, when it is not. That’s not honourable.

  • Sign a contact. v0.0.0 is not acceptable to the tenant. Which is why the tenant has redrafted the agreement (v0.0.1).

  • Waiver or discount the $65 fee for the contract, since it was poorly written and the tenant had to do work on it too.