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Title: Renting guide: your rights and responsibilities as a tenant and landlord
About: Available in Assyrian, Croatian, Dinka, Farsi, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Serbian, Turkish, Vietnamese
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Title: Tenants factsheets for NSW
About: Comprehensive site for tenancy issues such as bonds, locks and security, residential park and strata tenants, rent arrears, public tenants, and sample letters. Some factsheets in community languages. Also provides contacts for free legal advice and assistance.
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Title: Share housing survival guide, 2nd edition
About: Looking for a place to rent, the difference between a co-tenant, a sub-tenant, a boarder and a lodger; bonds, share household responsibilities, moving out or being evicted by your housemates, and when your housemates move out.
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Title: Retail tenancy unit: info kit for retail tenants
About: Provides information to help you understand leasing arrangements and the coverage currently provided by The Retail Leases Act 1994 (NSW).
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Title: Tenancy handbook: a reference manual for agents, self-managing landlords and tenancy advisers
About: Rights and responsibilities as a tenant, privacy and quiet enjoyment, locks, rent increases, repairs and maintenance, eviction, rental bonds, ending a tenancy, the Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal.
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Title: Shelter - Hot Topics series no 57
About: Legal aspects of housing, and direct and indirect regulation by governments; social housing, residential parks, rental properties, home ownership, and homelessness.
Author: Martin, Chris
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Books in public libraries

Title: Tenants rights manual: a practical guide to renting in NSW - 3rd edition
About: Rights and responsibilities as a tenant, privacy and quiet enjoyment, locks, rent increases, repairs and maintenance, eviction, rental bonds, ending a tenancy, the Residential Tenancies Tribunal, special groups of tenants such as public tenants. Includes some sample letters and contracts.
Author: Bellemore, Phillipa
Where: Check your public library.
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A Tool Kit title

Title: Share housing survival guide, 2nd edition
About: Looking for a place to rent, the difference between a co-tenant, a sub-tenant, a boarder and a lodger; bonds, share household responsibilities, moving out or being evicted by your housemates, and when your housemates move out.
Where: Check your public library.
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A Tool Kit title

Title: Housing Chapter 29: The law handbook 11th edition
About: Covers renting and tenancy agreements, rights of landlord and tenant, bonds, protected tenancies, the Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal, shared housing, public housing, appeals, buying a home, entering into a contract, strata schemes, rates, rates, squatters.
Where: Check your public library.
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A Tool Kit title

Title: Shelter - Hot Topics series no 57
About: Legal aspects of housing, and direct and indirect regulation by governments; social housing, residential parks, rental properties, home ownership, and homelessness.
Author: Martin, Chris
Where: Check your public library.
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A Hot Topics title

Lawyers' Tools

Title: Lang's commercial leases
About: Covers the drafting and negotiating of commercial leases, transactions, lease covenants, retail leases. Location number Ref/NQ346.9404346/11
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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