Police warn real estate agents of drug risks

we had a situation two doors over from where i lived in Kambah, we had reported it to police more than on one occasion but seem to fall on deaf ears

it was only when a “customer” parked his dads ute in the drive way to our place and iended up backing in to it not realising it was there, due to poor streetlighting and overgrown foilage that the coppers got interested! the condition of the house was always fetid to say the least with garbage bags every where and junk in the overgrown garden and with cars coming and going at allhours it wasnt exactly discreet either ! but it took a patrol car that came to the smash to finally take notice and call it in!

needless to say the sounds of a work crew 2 days later repairing the property was music to our ears and luckily a normal family moved in soon after.

rather the sounds of a quiet street that a constant runway of cars any day of the week.

Yeah great, you can evict them. After they burn your house down or trash it. I am guessing thier bond won’t cover it and good luck getting it out of thier centrelink payments

There’s usually a clause in the lease stating that the tenant agrees not to conduct any illegal activities on the premises and can be evicted if caught doing so.

Try the house fire in the rented property in Gungahlin not so long ago. I guarantee the landlord isnt doing cartwheels after his house was nearly destroyed by morons

How loose is that ssanta… you tell me.

I’ve had bosses that offered to pay wages in drugs – surely there’s a similar arrangement between some tenants and lessors.

I beg to differ seepi. Hydro set=ups are one of the more messy ways to do horticulture. The other problem is with all the moisture in the air, the houses gyprock walls tend to become looser than JB after a shot of tequilla!

If you’ve ever seen the result of some of these setup’s you would know the damage they can cause. Ten’s of thousands of dollars in remedial work to bring the place back to a lettable standard. Some of the photo’s from yesterday were frightening.

I suppose it’s always possible to run a cocaine factory from the guest bedroom in a tidy and careful way, without damaging the property…but at the back of my mind something tells me there might be some illegality about this??

OK, so like any bad tenants you want them out if they’re damaging the property and the police will give extra special help in this case.

But carefull ones not damaging the property?

Is there some liability there?

I didn’t think of the sprinklers…
Apart from that though, plants would make good tenants – ne maintenance calls, and not much weaqr and tear of the house.