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    Arrow Your Help Suggestion etc needed !!

    Just wondering if anyone would care to offer me some assistance in helping me draft a letter for me to fax to the Real Estate Agent (L J Hooker Southport) in re: me not being able to continue paying rent on the Monaco St unit.

    I will be faxing the letter Thursday (tomorrow).

    Some of the things I want to highlight is that I tried for a fortnight to find someone for the place before I officially signed the paperwork to break the lease. I paid for a domain.com.au 14 Day advertisement in that time out of my own money. I have continued to pay rent on a unit I never really moved within and thus it has been left in the condition the previous tenants left it in thus I havn't done any damage to the unit. Even in the time since I have handed over the keys (the last two weeks) I have continued to pay rent and advertise the place (on the internet, at my place to work, and word of mouth) and send people to the real estate agent (L J Hooker Southport) about the unit.

    I also want to highlight that I am still paying rent at the place I was supposed to move out yet never did. I want to highlight that I have been paying in total for the last four weeks $465 a week in rent due to paying rent on the Monaco St unit ($240) and the place I am at now ($225).... I cannot do this anymore.

    I want to highlight that I have been sent into major debt due to having to use my VERY NEWLY ACQUIRED (in Feb) credit card to cover expenses I could've covered if I wasn't paying rent on the Monaco St unit still .... weeks later!!! I literally cannot afford to keep paying rent on the Monaco Street unit.

    I want to highlight that paying rent on a unit (Watson Esplanade) I am actually living within and have continued to live with is much more important and a higher priority than a unit I never moved into in the first place (I never spent a full 24 hours in the Monaco St unit).

    I want to make L J Hooker Southport (the real estate "in charge" of the Monaco St unit) aware that the only reason I signed the lease to the Monaco St unit was due to L J Hooker Surfers Paradise giving me and my flatmate a "Notice To Leave" otherwise I would never have started looking and thus never had signed the lease in the first place of the Monaco St unit as I originally intended to re-new the lease of my current unit. So in the end the fault lies with L J Hooker Surfers Paradise NOT WITH ME.

    I want them to send me back via fax or post my rental ledger (all rent I have paid up until this date) as well as how much BOND I paid and thus will be forfeiting in full due to not able to keep paying rent on the Monaco Street unit as I need these records to persue a case against L J Hooker Surfers Paradise to re-claim all monies I have lost due to their stuff up.

    I also want L J Hooker Southport to know that I am going to persue L J Hooker Surfers Paradise about the money I have lost. Make it clear that none of this is my fault and thus they should not mark against me in any way as I will endeavour to have that over-turned as well since I backed out of the other lease agreement because I never wanted to move in the first place (L J Hooker Surfers Paradise accepting my lease re-newal over a week later after informing myself and my flatmate in no uncertain terms we had to leave!!).


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    Default Re: Your Help Suggestion etc needed !!

    Good luck with this. However I suspect that LJ Hooker really doesn't give a shit about your explanation or your expenditures on anything other than continued lease payments. They are undoubtedly going to take the position that you signed the lease, you have the option to move into the Monaco St unit at any time, that your lease agreement prevents LJ Hooker from seeking another tenant for the Monaco St unit whether you choose to move in or not, your decision to continue living at another address and continuing to pay rent on another apartment is a voluntary choice on your part etc.

    Personally speaking, I would be investing my efforts in preparation for an inevitable legal battle. LJ Hooker is never going to voluntarily back away and admit they are at fault if they haven't done so already.

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    Default Re: Your Help Suggestion etc needed !!

    I know that you can end your lease with LJ Hooker in Southport by lodging a form (unsure of the name/number of this form, but there definitely is one)

    I have done this before to another realestate, and I only lost 1/2 of my bond (I did live in the apartment for a while, so I did have to get the carpets cleaned etc)

    They will take x amount of $$ for re-advertising and 2 weeks rent in advance etc...

    This may be worth reading if you have'nt already done so-
    http://www.rta.qld.gov.au/giving_the_correct_notice.cfm and also this
    http://www.rta.qld.gov.au/form_13.cfm

    It is fairly easy in Australia to end leases on properties, but good luck dealing with LJ Hooker - they are by far the worst real-estate to deal with!

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    Default Re: Your Help Suggestion etc needed !!

    To clarify: I have ALREADY signed all the proper paperwork to break lease 26 Feb.

    I am now seeking guidance on how to stop paying rent on a unit that I am not even living within and they know since I signed the paperwork that I want OUT of the lease ASAP !!!!!!!!!!!!!

    This is fucked. I want my money back. That's alot of money I have lost due L J Hooker Surfers Paradise's stuff up !! :grr:

    I literally can't pay a cent more of the $240 I am meant to pay on that unit. I can't afford to pay rent on that unit that I am not living within one moment longer. I'm at my wits end and financially it has nearly fucked me. I'm at the point where I am prepared to just cancel my Rent al Rewards payments (the system I'm using to pay automatically currently) and just leave it and not give them any explanation as to why I stopped paying the rent on that place.

    I just thought it would be 'nice' of me to inform them before-hand.


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