Rental properties - routine gas, electricity and smoke detector inspection frequencies

[Itisme]

Thanks for your reply. That text you quoted is in an email they have sent to me this week. That text is not on the website. The website has the “$290 per year (min 2 years)" line. My position is that I am not proceeding with the second year because I am not happy with their service at another property.

[PhilT]

It would be helpful for us if you reveal the company so we can look at their offer.

[Gaby]

@Itisme

Mylo Property Solutions

PS gas and electricity safety checks are to be done only every two years. Smoke alarms every year.(Gaby)

[Itisme]

That is it. Thanks.

[phb]

@Itisme

My position is that I am not proceeding with the second year because I am not happy with their service at another property.

This has been addressed in my earlier post. It appears you have entered an agreement/contract for services for a minimum of 2 years.

I suggest you obtain legal advice. Failing to fulfill a contract may have broad implications. This include penalties for breach of contract and significant impact on your credit rating. The later can impact on your ability to change everyday services (electricity, phone, gas, banks, credit cards etc) through to impact on your ability to secure credit.

[grahroll]

As others have noted, you will be best served by getting proper legal advice. On this Community we can only give general advice and opinion. Failing to act on these issues can have unwanted effects such as a negative credit report which can last on your record for some years, and debt recovery and further legal action to recover outstanding debts (often with large increases in costs).

We do have links to some free Consumer Legal Advice centres for each State and the Territories. (We try to keep it as up to date as possible so please excuse any errors).

Free Legal Advice Centres

Created this topic so that we are able to list free legal aid centres to point consumers to if there is a need. I encourage those who know of any to add them and if a centre specializes in a law area to note that. Each State/Territory will be given a separate entry in this Topic. As most are State/Territory based please ensure to keep the listing in the State/Territory they are located in, also try to include Town or City they are in. It is being created as a Wiki so just add your entry to th…

In particular for Victoria

Free Legal Advice Centres

VICTORIAN (VIC) FREE LEGAL ADVICE CENTRES Consumer Action Law Centre Telephone Contact: (03) 9629 6300 or 1800 466 477 (Monday – Friday: 10am-1pm) Web address: https://consumeraction.org.au/ Specializes in Consumer & Worker law matters

(For this next site use the questions and search function towards the bottom of the page)

https://www.fclc.org.au/find_a_community_legal_centre

You can seek legal advice through paid professionals if you don’t wish to use the free services.

[Glenn61]

@Itisme

I am still trying to get to the bottom of this, but it looks like Mylo Property Solutions and my managing agent are performing too many safety checks:

It would be worth looking at the contract to see what is meant to be provided in the two year term. Looking at the recommended checking intervals this could be as simple as one electrical, one gas and two smoke alarms checks for the cost of $580 i.e. the second gas check at your previous property was a freebie.

If the above assumption is correct, you have already received most, or all, of the promised services for your current property. This means that you would have little recourse if the company was proven to be in the wrong. It might be better for your health to simply pay the second year amount and move on.

[Itisme]

Thanks to everyone for their responses. I am inclined to agree with the option of paying and moving on. Your wisdom is appreciated.