September 2020 - The rental market has now generously swung in favour of tenants after year upon year of promising & occasionally over inflated rental escalations, making living in the city areas of Cape Town disproportionately expensive. Living in the City Bowl of Cape Town...
While owning a rental property can be a lucrative business endeavor, letting out property for the first time and becoming a landlord is not for everyone.
A subject fraught with contention in tenancies, is the paying of utilities, including water, refuse, sewerage and electricity. The most critical element in avoiding disputes and confusion is ensuring your written lease contains clear terms regarding who is responsible for the payment of utilities and at what stage these will become due. Once this has been established the party responsible will need to abide by the agreement.
One of the more contentious issues between a landlord and the tenant is almost always the general state of repair and ongoing maintenance and repair issues that crop up within a tenancy. Often, confusion reigns regarding who may be liable for the cost of various...
One of the more delicate and contentious issues in leases in South Africa is the debate surrounding pets in tenanted properties and the restriction of keeping pets within a lease and how reasonable this is. The debate is a sensitive one as many of us...
Unfortunately, as with most things in life, rent goes up each year - but does this mean that as a tenant you, have no choice but to accept whatever percentage the landlord decides upon? As a letting agent with much if my portfolio coming up for...
You have loads of competition! Particularly in coastal cities, the demand for rentals is massive during the seasonal periods from November to March and this means the number of folks out seeking a rental property peaks to staggering numbers. Rental agents can often have hundreds of responses...
The 7 Deadly Rental Sins …as committed by landlords, tenants and agents We are constantly plagued by rental horror stories; nightmare tenants; greedy landlords; lazy agents and countless other woes surrounding the rental industry. Over the last ten years as a rental specialist, I have found a...