Heck up until recently you couldn’t even change a blown out light bulb in a rental in certain states.
Tenant rights in Australia leave much to be desired and it’s becoming an increasingly bigger issue with the housing crises trapping people in rentals where they have very few rights.
Not sure. It could be a situation like ‘big pharma’, but with plumbers, so, ‘Big Crack’…
It might also have been an oversight in the original legislation that led to the 2000 laws overreaching, but judges simply applying the Golden Rule to interpret the legislation as a lesser standard, while they waited for legislators to pull their pants up, which in this case took just a smidge over two decades. So a pretty quick turn around if you concenttrate only on the ‘two’ in that last sentence.
Common sense (surprisingly) appears. Hopefully stuff like that is actually legal in NSW, because even if it isn’t I’m keeping on doing it myself - calling a plumber in for something that can be done by anyone with a couple of brain cells to rub together seems a waste of both their time and my money.
Why didn’t anyone tell me that I could have enjoyed the good life as a professional toilet plungerer in WA this whole time? I want to rewind the clock and start adulting all over again.
Wait, this wasn’t legal? I’ve been told by my real estate agent in the past to change the tap washer myself. I knew I was within my rights to insist they do it, but to speed things along, I did the job myself.
Not from WA, but I take it this was very rarely enforced, and if nobody’s enforcing it, is it even really a law? Would it even be upheld if you challenged it in court?
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