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Title: Renting guide: your rights and responsibilities as a tenant and landlord Details »
Link: www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/About_us/Publications/Proper ...
Date: December 2007

Title: Renting guide: your rights and responsibilities as a tenant and landlord - in community languages Details »
Note: Available in Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Serbian, Turkish, Vietnamese
Date: December 2005

Title: Tenants and homeowners - Office of Fair Trading - tenants and landlords, buying and selling, strata, agents and managers, parks and villages, licence check. Details »
Link: www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/Tenants_and_home_owners.html
Date: 2008

Title: Tenants factsheets for NSW Details »
Note: Comprehensive site for tenancy issues includes factsheets on the Residential Tenancies Act, bond, locks and security, residential park and strata tenants, rent arrears and public tenants. Selected factsheets in community languages. Sample letters and the online version of the excellent plain language guide to tenancy - the Tenants Rights Manual. Also provides contacts for free legal advice and assistance.
Link: www.tenants.org.au/publish/factsheets/index.php
Date: 2008

Title: The retail tenants guide Details »
Note: Available in English, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Vietnamese
Date: 2006

Practical guides

  At your public library

Title: Housing. Chapter 29: The law handbook 10th edition - a Find Legal Answers Tool Kit book Details »
Note: 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.
Date: 2007
Where: At your public library

Title: Share housing survival guide, 2nd edition - a Find Legal Answers Tool Kit book Details »
Note: Covers looking for a place to rent, the difference between a co-tenant, a sub-tenant, a boarder and a lodger, the bond, share household responsibilities such as food and kitty, chores and bill paying. Moving out or being evicted by your housemates, when your housemates move out.
Link: www.rlc.org.au/sharehousing/
Date: 2005
Where: At your public library

Title: Shelter - Hot Topics series no 57 Details »
Author: Chris Martin
Note: Shelter is a basic human need. Individual wellbeing, the organisation of family life and most other forms of social activity, like work and education depend on it. Shelter is the dominant purpose of our built environment. It is also an important concern of governments, which regulate, directly and indirectly, the supply, quality, cost and security of shelter, and who gets what out of it. For all these reasons, shelter is significant legally. In this issue of Hot Topics, different forms of housing are discussed, as well as homelessness.
Date: 2006
Where: At your public library

Title: Tenancy handbook: a reference manual for agents, self-managing landlords and tenancy advisers Details »
Note: 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.
Link: www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/pdfs/About_us/Publications/f ...
Date: August 2008
Where: At your public library

Title: Tenants rights manual 2nd ed - a Find Legal Answers Tool Kit book Details »
Author: Bellemore, Phillipa
Note: 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. OUT OF PRINT.
Date: 1997
Where: At your public library

Lawyers' tools

  State Library LIAC

Title: Lang's commercial leases Details »
Note: Covers the drafting and negotiating of commercial leases, transactions, lease covenants, retail leases. Location number Ref/NQ346.9404346/11
Where: State Library LIAC

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