#renting — Public Fediverse posts

RentTech companies still asking tenants for personal details ‘completely outside’ new Victorian laws https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/10/renttech-tenants-personal-information-privacy-victorian-laws #Renting #ConsumerAffairs #Housing #Business #Technology #AustraliaNews

RentTech companies still asking tenants for personal details ‘completely outside’ new Victorian laws
By Catie McLeod Consumer affairs reporter

Some rental platforms encourage hopeful tenants to share ‘excessive’ amount of information, Consumer Policy Research Centre review finds

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/10/renttech-tenants-personal-information-privacy-victorian-laws

#Renting #Consumeraffairs #Housing #Business #Technology #Australianews #TheGuardian #CatieMcLeodConsumeraffairsreporter

‘Forced out with nowhere to go’: First Nations families face eviction as council sells homes over charity’s unpaid rates
By Douglas Smith

Mount Isa city council to auction off first of 24 homes after Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation for Welfare Services accrues almost $1m in unpaid debts

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/08/first-nations-families-face-eviction-as-mount-isa-council-sells-homes-ntwnfb

#IndigenousAustralians #Queensland #Australianews #Housing #Renting #LidiaThorpe #RuralandregionalAustralia #TheGuardian #DouglasSmith

‘Forced out with nowhere to go’: First Nations families face eviction as council sells homes over charity’s unpaid rates https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/08/first-nations-families-face-eviction-as-mount-isa-council-sells-homes-ntwnfb #IndigenousAustralians #Queensland #AustraliaNews #Housing #Renting #LidiaThorpe #RuralAndRegionalAustralia

landlord is having the lawn & sprinkler system ripped out. It's the right thing to do, but then they're going to just put down gravel instead 🤮 .

If I owned the place I'd put in native plants.

I do hope the gophers find a way out from under the gravel (I'm sure they will) but I bet this also reduces the number of visits I get from the crows and other birds. Ah well.

#renting #renter #renterLife #CA

Hi there, so for people #Renting apartments now or who have experience, I am looking for tips that I should be aware of as a first time #Renter. I'm moving out soon, and I know that for the most part, I will have to buy my own furniture, but how are things like paying the utilities done? My knowledge of renting tells me that a lot of companies only take checks or cash for paying the utilities, but is that really true nowadays? Do y'all have like a separate account for putting rent money in to each month or bi-weekly so that you can just send over the entire rent payment at once without having to worry, so like for example, I get paid bi-weekly, but i put half the payment in the first week in to an account and the second half the next time I get paid and it all just comes out when the rent is due? I am trying to learn strategies here so that I can rent successfully. I'm living independently for the very first time and I want to do it right. also, I am #Blind. but learning these strategies early is probably a good thing, because the less problems I have, the better.

Knox Financial raises $10M to take the pain out of being a landlord - We’ve all heard the phrase “passive income” to describe how people can make money ... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/quhrXtwLFRw/ #fundings&exits #venturecapital #recentfunding #davidfriedman #knoxfinancial #g20ventures #realestate #greycroft #startups #articles #landlord #finance #funding #banking #renting #boston #pillar #knox #tc