Terms and Conditions for 962 Dandenong Rd, Caulfield East.

Car parking on the property is for approved renters exclusively.
Renters are not to leave any food unattended in the kitchen when cooking.
The house is a non-smoking house at all times.
There are to be no pets allowed at the property, unless with rental providers permission.
Renters are not permitted to act aggressively or intimidate other renters; all renters have equal rights within the house and need to treat each other respectfully.

Cleaning:

Renters must keep the house clean, both their room and the general areas.
Renters should regularly clean the fridge and kitchen cupboards of all excess food stuffs. Renters should equally allocate cupboards in kitchen.
Upon any one renter leaving an inspection will be made of the renter’s bedroom and the general areas. All rubbish must be removed from the room and cupboard and taken off the property. All excess rubbish found in the cleaning must be removed from the property at the expense of the renter. At the end of the tenancy a cleaner will be engaged to clean the bedroom, the bedroom carpet and the general areas, including the oven and whitegoods owned by the rental provider, at the renter’s expense. The cost of the cleaning will be the cost incurred by the rental provider to get the cleaning done. If the rental provider does any cleaning, then the renter will incur a cost of 50 dollars an hour per person cleaning.
Renters must ensure the correct council bins (recycling, general and green waste bins) are placed out on the curb on Thursdays for collection on Friday mornings, and then bought back into the property after they have been emptied. Rental providers can place rubbish in these bins.

Noise:

Music, movies and general noise must be of such level as to not disturb other renters at any time. Renters should be particularly conscious of making any noise after 9:00pm at night in the general areas or their room. They should respect the right of other renters to determine what is considered loud noise after this time whether in the general area or their bedroom. In the first instance renters should try and negotiate with each other. Renters will be responsible for their guests following the same rules.
There are no parties allowed at any time or under any conditions.

General:

Room 31 (downstairs bedroom) has sole access to outside back courtyard off bathroom, and as such is responsible for the maintenance of the area. Furthermore, rm 31 renter must allow access to the courtyard for readings of the gas meter.
All renters are responsible for front courtyard maintenance.
Any renter who becomes aware of damage to the property will notify the rental provider of this damage straight away. The rental provider will replace any broken items with the same or an item that serves the same purpose even if it isn’t identical. For instance, the rental provider can replace a wall mounted toilet holder with a floor based one.
Car parking on the property is for renters exclusively. Friends of renters are allowed to park on property if visiting the renter in the instance where renters of the property are not inconvenienced, and the visited renter is present. Renter’s friends are NOT allowed to park on the rented property where they are using this as an opportunity to obtain free parking close to a train station, University etc. In general renters should use their common sense in parking and not park in such a way that they would block the other renter/neighbours cars in, or stop the other renter/neighbour from entering the property. Renters must inform the rental provider before parking a car on the property to ensure that a parking spot is available. It is at the rental provider’s discretion as to whether a car can be parked on the property.
Renters agree not to leave any food unattended in the kitchen when cooking.
The renter understands that any request to extend any of the Services provided by the rental provider ie heating, cooling, refrigeration, furniture etc will be at the rental provider’s discretion and renter’s cost.
The renter understands that the rental provider may choose to communicate via their email, Australia post or phone by calling or smsing them. These messages may be of an individual basis or where your contact details are included in the house group of existing renters depending on the type of message.
In the instance that a renter makes changes to the configuration of the room it will be the renter’s responsibility to make good the working of the room. For example, a renter upgrades an existing television themselves and the existing Ariel doesn’t support the new television, it will be the renter’s responsibility to make good the Ariel or revert to the original television or location.
Renters accept and acknowledge that the rental provider has the right to allocate the rent differently between residents.
Only renters can regularly use facilities such as showers etc in the property, any friends or associates that are regularly using house facilities will incur a cost of $15 per week to the renter whose friends or associates are using the facilities. Only individuals on the lease can live in the property.
Renter will at their own expense make a copy of their room key within the first two weeks of their lease. The renter should then store this key in a safe place outside of the house. If after two weeks, the renter does not make a copy of their room key and locks themselves out of their room a charge of $100 will be incurred for having the room opened by the rental provider. If the rental provider is not available, the renter will need to contact a locksmith to open the door. Any damaged incurred opening a locked door by anyone other than the rental provider will be the Renter’s liability and any cost to make good will be at the expense of the renter.
Renters will be responsible for all keys in the residence, including window keys which will be left in the lock of the window. Any missing key at the end of the lease will be replaced at the renter’s expense.
If the rental provider needs to do renovation work within common areas of the house, he/she shall give them notice.
Renters should provide to the rental provider any update to their contact details if they change. This includes changes to email, phone number or address.
The house is always a non-smoking house.
No items belonging to the rental provider shall be removed from the house without the rental provider’s permission.
Anyone visiting the house is doing so at the full responsibility of the person he /she is visiting and is obliged to follow all rules set down for renters.
On the day that a lease finishes the renter is required to leave by 10:00 am that morning. Failure to do so will incur another days rent.
Individual renters agree to act responsibly when using the internet and to consider others internet experience. Renter understands and accept that the internet is a free service, that does not form part of the consideration of the rent payment or rental agreement.
The rental provider or their agent has the right to service the modem at whatever time they so choose and is able to take any actions they deem necessary to maintain the ISP internet connection and its’ authentication with the modem, this is not limited to but may include turning the modem off and on for instance.
The renter understands that the internet service is a shared free service with the other renter/s. As such the onus is on the renter to manage the sharing of internet speed capacity, provided by the ISP, amongst themselves. The rental provider has no responsibility to manage individual renter’s usage patterns on the internet. Renters agree to work with other renters to make sure the Internet is shared evenly amongst renters. The renter understands that the Internet speed is limited to what is provided by the individual ISP at each house. If the renter wishes to know more about the service provided by the ISP the rental provider will answer any questions they are able to.
The rental provider at their own discretion will respond to any support issues that relate directly to the quality of the connection provided by the Internet Service Providers (ISP) to the premise. Also, at their own discretion the Rental provider will check support requests that relate to the modem at the relevant premise to directly ensure that it properly authenticates with the ISP’s connection. All other issues to do with the modem, renter’s devices, renter ability to connect to the modem, the individual’s device Internet speed and anything else generally to do with the internet, the modem and the renter’s device is the responsibility of the renter.
The rental provider accepts no responsibility for the action of renters on the Internet. Renters agree to indemnify the rental provider for any actions they take on the Internet that are illegal in nature or cause any damage to the rental providers or others property or wellbeing. Any renter acting illegally will be asked to stop accessing the Internet immediately.
The renter agrees that they will always use the internet for legal purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing and downloading material for free that is copy right in nature and should not be obtained unless it is paid for. For instance, the downloading of illegal movies should not occur. Added to this the renter should not access any sites that obtains illegal images such as children’s pornography.
The renter accepts that the rental provider has the right to access and use all and any statistics that are captured in relation to usage of the internet by renters over any monitoring device connected to the internet service such as a modem. The renter accepts that the rental provider will use this information to manage the usage of the internet if he/she so pleases and has the right to publish and share this information publicly if required.
The rental provider has the absolute right to immediately prevent individual renters from using the internet and also with 1 months’ notice to remove the internet from the premise entirely. The Rental provider will only take the action of removing the internet if there is some issue that he thinks in his opinion warrants this action. As the Internet service is free to the renter there will be no compensation required to be paid by the rental provider to the renter. The renter will be required to then source their own internet access at their expense if they so choose.
Renters are not to share the internet with other non renters and should respect the privacy of other renter devices connected to the house’s internet service. For instance, renters should not stream to other renters device’s.
The Renter understands that the internet service within a house is shared by all the renters. As such renters understand that other renters may be able to see their devices over the internet and access these devices. If the renter doesn’t have a password on their device or can’t put a password on their streaming enabled device this may mean other renters may be able to “stream” etc to their connected devices.
Tenants will not use any phone number connected to the internet service.
During the tenancy renter’s rooms will need to be accessed to carry out maintenance to meet government, insurance and Banking regulation requirements. At these times it may be necessary to take photos or video of the rooms to document their state at the time to, for instance, prove the room is clean and habitual. These photos and images would only be shared with other organisations where it was a government, insurance or finance requirement.
Renters are responsible for replacing light bulbs.
Renter’s friends or associates can’t be left unsupervised or be given independent access to the residence.

Lease:

Under a Residential Tenancy lease renters are required to pay rent up until the lease ends or a replacement renter takes over the lease. Renters will be required to pay for any financial loss to the rental provider caused by a lease being broken. This will include items such as lost rent and any cleaning expenses or like incurred by the rental provider due to the breaking of a lease by the renter.
If Renters require the rental provider to find a renter to take over their Residential Tenancy lease then they will be charged $250.00 for this activity. Until the room is filled the renter is responsible to pay the rent as per the lease.
Any rubbish left by the renter on the property will be removed from the property by the rental provider at the renter’s expense.
Renters understand that a personal dispute which is civil in nature with another renter is not a reason to break a fixed term lease.
Renters on fixed term Residential Tenancy leases must (as per the Residential Tenancy Act of Victoria) give 1 months notice before the end of the fixed term lease. For instance if a fixed term lease finishes on the 3rd of the month the renter must inform the rental provider on or before the 3rd of the previous month that they wish to leave at the end of the fixed term lease. At the end of the fixed term lease if another lease isn’t signed then the lease becomes month to month (a periodic lease) if it is a Residential Tenancy lease. In this circumstance (as per the Residential Tenancy Act of Victoria) the renter must give a month’s notice of their intention to move out.

Utilities:

Rental provider will put all utilities in their name. The renters will be presented with the bill and required to pay within 7 days the full amount. The renters agree to split the bill evenly between them and to pay their portion to the rental provider within 7 days. Bills will be provided to renters when received by rental provider from each utility company.

Smoke Alarms:

The renters will check monthly that the smoke alarms are in good repair i.e. the batteries are in place and the smoke alarm is not hanging open from the ceilings. Any failure of the smoke alarm, such as battery beeping or false alarms, will be reported to the rental provider immediately. The renters will allow the rental provider access on a 6 monthly basis to check the alarms.

Garden:

- Tenants are responsible for maintaining the garden of the town house. If the landlord so chooses to maintain the garden he/she or his/her agent will not be required to give notice to the tenants to enter the front yard of the property.