Comment by rgmerk
2 days ago
You would feel that, but you would be wrong.
Small businesses are often just as ruthless as large ones, just less competent. In any case, most rental properties are managed through agencies, who are soulless profit-optimisers.
So what’s your solution exactly? No businesses at all?
See my OP.
In short, the appalling treatment of renters in Australia is due to the chronic undersupply of housing; if landlords had to compete for tenants it would not be possible to mistreat them in the way many currently do.
There is also scope for better regulation of tenancies and indeed the Victorian government has passed some reforms in this area.
That’s… not what they said, you’re putting words in their mouth