Guidelines for Renting a House in Sydney

Dear all Home owners trying to rent property in Sydney,

When listing a property for rent please take a moment to consider proper wording for your home listing.  This will help make the process of finding renters as smooth as possible.

As you think about the selling features of your property please do not entice families in with your beautiful rooms, your huge kitchen, your built-in backyard cubby house and your sparkling clean in ground pool and then accept a family only to learn they have pets and then tell them they are welcome to rent as long as they give away their animals.  It will save you a lot of time if you simply put the words, "No pets" on your listing.  The real estate agent who spent the day checking the references of the applying family and drawing up the contracts because in his words, "This is the winner" will thank you.  Particularly since he had already emailed the family prior to the home inspection saying that pets were ok.  The family, who dragged 3 children to your open house and pried their fingers off the gate to the pool, and waited for 4 days for approval: only to learn they could have their dream home if they give away 2 members of their family, will thank you.

To the Home Owner of the home in question in Hornsby Heights.  I know you will find a suitable family soon.  There's no way a house as beautiful as yours will be vacant for long.  Forgive me for being less than charitable when I wish beyond hope that your new, pet-less family has children that cover your beautiful built-in closets with fairy stickers, fills all the power points with play dough, has bowling practice through your picturesque lounge room window and decides to make the pool the biggest mud pie making facility in NSW.

Signed with Love and Regards,

Future Renters in Sydney