I always
dreaded tenants moving out. I had to conduct the final inspection to determine
what needed to be fixed, cleaned or taken out of the bond.
The worst
part was the disagreements with the tenants. It didn’t take me long to realise
a good condition report meant less disagreements and a well left property. A
property condition report is simply a document which shows the condition of the
property when the tenant moves in. This is essentially the only evidence you
can use to prove what the place was like at the start of the tenancy.
An elephants
memory will not help you here. The better this report, the better the tenants
will leave your property in at end of the tenancy. Unfortunately so many
landlords leave them until the last minute. They miss things or even worse,
they don’t do them at all because they get distracted with other issues when
the tenants are moving in like the bond, lease and keys.
I get it.
These condition reports can be difficult and timely to put together but the
last thing you want is angry tenants who take you to court for trying to claim
their bond without any evidence. That’s why I’m going to take you through the
steps of how to easily create an iron-clad property condition report in the
next few blogs
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Jason Gwerder
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
