I wrote a rental post two days ago, and today I'd like to go into detail about five landlords in Australia, and some stories between the landlords and the landlords. These five landlords, I will meet in the order of the ABCDE to represent.
A-A 4, 50-year-old white businessman.
In the hands of a Hong Kong man in Australia, he bought a company called IT. The company has a history of 10 years. After looking at the company's operating statements in recent years, it feels like it is a business that can't make a lot of money, but it can also give a living guarantee for the future, at least the job is easy. The scenery and climate there is also a yearning for me.
As for A, from buying business to renting, there is little connection. At that time, we were in the mainland, most of the contacts were made by agents and Hong Kong people.
Half a year later, we set foot in the beautiful city of Sydney and finally met the white landlord for the first time.
The first impression was a passionate, energetic, robust white man, like a wave, smiling, clean and lively. Because my English does not pass, so the communication part is usually the inarticulate IT man-my husband adult. In private, I was very happy in my heart. I finally had to force myself to communicate with others.
It wasn't clear at the time that some of Australia's rental policies were different from domestic policies, such as who did the deposit pay for the house? Where is the deposit contract? Wait, we don't realize the importance of these things because the mediators were in operation in the early days.
As a result of partner problems, we will have to transfer the company later. In fact, the transfer is also helpless, because at this time I know that in Australia, you have signed a house for five years, you must rent for five years, unlike in the mainland, as long as the landlord recalcitrant the deposit there is no tenant, the contract can be terminated. We've only done it for a year, and if we have to pay four more years of rent, it's too stressful! It's really cheap to sell our company, just to get the next house to push our lease down.
Before looking for the next home, we transferred the store and A ventilation, A still very brother patted the chest said no problem, but also very sympathetic patting my husband on the shoulder. When we asked about the deposit, he said it was fine, as long as we found the next one, this could be refundable by contract.
When we cooperate with the next house to complete all the formalities such as rental transfer and so on, the next home is ready to pay the deposit, I propose, is it possible for the other party to give us the deposit directly, and we will transfer the deposit single to the next house? a thought for a moment. Said: in order to facilitate the possible problems, it is better to belong to each other. All the deposits we pay are not in the hands of the landlord. They are managed by a third party. After that, the third company will operate well and eventually return to our account number.
There was no insistence on the thought that this was a rigorous white man. We left Sydney for Adelaide, where my husband got a IT job.
At present, my husband is in contact with A, A still said that there is no problem with the deposit, will definitely back! But what I want to say is that time flies, years have passed, and so far I have not seen the deposit.
A young couple in northern China
In fact, B can write very little, we spend less than 30 minutes together. The couple was the first landlord I had scheduled to meet on my first day in Sydney.
Knowing that I was coming to live in Sydney, I had been looking for rental sources on various rental sites half a month earlier, and called three to five, using a small book to remember the phone, address, rent, and related points that attracted me to the place.
We got off the plane, rented a car directly at the airport, took two pole boxes, and drove directly to B, a second-floor villa in a very quiet community.
B was moving new furniture into the house, forgetting whether he had told me whether it was new or rented, looking at the room we were renting and the kitchen and living room we might use.
This is the first house of Australian residents I see, the first feeling, really fucking small ah. It's estimated at 10 to 11 square meters. The kitchen looks like 70 points, not the best, but not so bad. I asked the owner if I could cook. He hesitated to say yes, but none of the other tenants on the same rent did much. I looked around the living room full of furniture cartons and was satisfied with it. I don't have any other requirement. I just hope I can cook, and I have to cook every meal. I don't want to force each other to be an outsider. No one else cooks, so I cook. So I can only say that B and I really have no relationship fate.
Bai Jing Fujian Aunt of the Chinese Community
About 30 minutes after leaving B, C and my mother were in the same year, but they looked at least 10 years younger than my mother. After all, the water is good, the air is good, the food is good.
I had a nice chat with C because I thought of my mother when I saw her.
C's house is really dilapidated, a white wooden villa on the floor, mottled exterior walls, dead leaves in the garden, which should have just been cleaned, but not clean. Indoor walk, the floor empty, with echoes, afraid of inadvertently stepping through the floor people fell. The walls of the house yellowed slightly, even with waist-lined wall panels, and the ceiling was three-dimensional, carved with historical rhombic patterns. The hood of the ceiling lamp had been lost, exposing an old silk bulb, four sub-rented rooms, each with a padlock at the door.
Kitchen and bathroom are almost the same, looking at least 10 years of decoration. In fact, at that time the heart assessed 10 years, or politely, the real decoration has been 30 to 40 years, just do not know whether the maintenance of foreigners or good workmanship, anyway, with domestic maintenance again good 20 years of decoration can not achieve such.
I don't know why, that's it! There is nothing to my satisfaction here. It might be sitting in the room looking out of the window at the blue sky and the bright sun, so that my heart suddenly lit up, or maybe the old kitchen was often used by people at first glance, which made me feel kind; More likely, when I suggested that the bed in the house was too small, the landlord immediately said she was going to buy a new double bed today, as long as we make sure we rent it now! It was late, and I didn't want to go to the hotel at night. Anyway, I paid for it and went out to do something else, waiting for the landlord to buy a bed. Comfort yourself, at least tonight, in a new bed that no one has ever used.
Owners do not live here. They may come here once or twice a month to collect rent or clean up public areas. The old house has four rooms, a bathroom and a kitchen, three of which have been rented, two singles and a couple. Two bachelors, one is still in school, one is already working. The couple have also been working here for several years. In addition to the student who was in college, two other families lived for 2-3 years. I thought, although not very satisfied, but almost fine, after all, a cent price goods, just arrived in Australia still do not understand the situation, everything strict and simple. Many roommates, but also more chat friends, some do not understand places to ask.
So, on the first day of my entry into Sydney, I had already rented the house, which was for a year and a half.
C and I do not have a lot of connections, after all, 2 generations, there is no common language. Occasionally she comes to clean up, and at best we say hello.
The rent in Australia is actually paid once a week. I have broken my glasses very much. I also have a house to rent in China. It is polite to ask the other party to pay three bets and one, so after paying two or three weeks, I asked the other party for an account number. Transfer money on Monday.
I still pay rent very timely, Shanghai people's contract spirit is very high overall. Because I can often hear the landlord knock on the door and ask for rent at night, but I never let her knock on our door because of the rent.
We thought we had a good time with the owner until we checked out of Sydney at the end of the day.
Sometimes I think that this may be the common illness of people who have been in Australia for a long time. When we have business contacts, we are very polite. Once there is no business exchanges, it is difficult to say that human feelings are cold and warm.
I've been in Sydney for a year and a half when I moved and bought a lot of tools, big and small. I took the largest carton from my friend and packed it in more than a dozen cases! When I was pretending, I was speechless, why so many things! Let someone else's room, just a room, why put in so many things!
Packed to spit blood, the courier spent hundreds of Australian dollars. And then。 find。 I can't find the key to the door.
The first two days before leaving, settle the rent and deposit with the landlord, and tell her: the key can not be found, I think it is packed in the box, or wait until the place to find out for her? She nodded to show that she knew, but not too much. We didn't say anything to me for the next two days until early morning on the third day we drove out of Sydney for Adelaide. Left in a hurry, 1400 kilometers of road to drive a day, when my husband got into the car, I also took 20 minutes to clean my room, throw all the garbage out, vacuumed the carpet ash.
Australia is a lot of no man's land, no signal. 1400 kilometers, and husband all the way to drive, we are very tired. When we went to a small town to eat and rest, bored to look at the mobile phone, found a pile of C in the WeChat group of scolding information, roughly means that we do not have morality, so we escaped, the key has not yet given, also do not say hello. I'm really speechless, didn't I say I packed it in a box and sent it out by express delivery? And say, when I get there, I find out and e-mail her? I always thought that I would get along for a year and a half, although I didn't have a very close relationship, but at least I was a trustworthy person, and I never asked her to ask for a rent. What is she doing, usually Sven is very easy to talk about? Why are you talking like that in the group? A small padlock key (don't ask why there is no key to the door, the lock on the door is broken, so we all go through the back door where we can't close the door), even if the Australian handmade cost is 5 to 8 Australian dollars, don't say I said hello to you in advance. Even if you don't say hello, you shouldn't get such a sharp rebuke!
I quietly quit the group, two weeks later, when I finally found the key in the dozen boxes of cartons, I spent 2 bucks to send her. I believe that people talk about credit and fate. Knowing a person, in a constant life, often can't be found, only when some events break a certain balance, can make people understand each other more fully.
Da-A bald, honest little old man from Jiangxi
This house is in Adelaide, when I was still in Sydney, I was online a week in advance. Drive from Sydney to Adelaide and the destination is set at D.
When we drove to D, we were immediately attracted to D's garden. The beautiful garden was repaired, many beautiful unfamous flowers were planted, and there was a pomegranate tree full of pomegranate in the backyard. Still standing at the door, he began to fall in love with it.
When D came out to open the door, dressed in work clothes and tools, he did not know what was being repaired. After understanding, this suite is D just bought a month ago, is doing some small reconstruction. I was full of D at that time, strong hands-on men feel like good men.
D's house is really nothing to see, compared with C's house, D's house is a luxury house. There are five bedrooms, a suite with toilet, two kitchens, and an empty room of about 6 square meters. D says this room is empty, and maybe make another bathroom later, and now it can be used for drying clothes in rainy days, a very large living room. A public bathroom. One suite with bathrooms and one bedroom have been rented to two single students, both of whom are girls. D does not live here.
In fact, moved in, or found a lot of unhappy places, such as: there is no gas, can only cook with electric stove. Everything looks new, but I don't know where it came from.
It doesn't matter, I don't want to rent a house, otherwise I wouldn't be staying at C for that long. And then there was a problem. During the summer vacation, my mother-in-law and my husband's nephew came to Australia to play for 40 days. We couldn't arrange for them to stay in a hotel. Just in time, there was a spare house to rent together.
That day we gave a detailed description of our situation, the other side can accept, which can be regarded as a snap. At that time, we did not sign a rental contract, my only requirement is how much money, write down the amount, date and purpose. The four of us rented two rooms, paid the deposit rent and got two keys. At that time, I asked if we could get two keys to the larger flat we had rented, and the other party said he could only give us one now, and he kept a spare until a few days later he took some time to make one available for us. This is not urgent anyway, so let's make a verbal agreement. We took a key in one of our rooms.
My excitement about the house was not over. After only one night, the owner changed his mind the next day.
The next day was the date D had agreed to give us a handwritten receipt in writing, but D told me that his wife, a nurse, got off work more than 10:00 last night, and heard that four people had checked in, and immediately disagreed. It was said that it would affect the rental of a few later rooms. I wanted to call us that night, but it was too late, so I came over this morning.
I heard at that time all want to cry, grow up so big, this is the first time to be kicked out ah! I asked, do you think the rent is too low? If it's too little, I can add it. The other party immediately said it was not a matter of rent, or felt that it would affect the rental of other houses. Other houses?
That is, there is no need to talk, forget it, the business is not in favor, I think we are all from China, there is no need for tension, so I once again put forward that we moved home for a day yesterday. Express delivery has a dozen cartons also moved into their own bedroom can no longer be removed, can not pass a period of time? He gave him a month, a month. I looked at his hair-less head without words, thinking: such a man stays at home, his wife goes to work, so he has no status, so his wife must listen to what he says. A month is also his biggest concession, forget it, for the sake of other people's wife, to achieve his good image to listen to the old woman, it is not difficult for him.
After that, I still regarded him as a friend. Why? First, he is Jiangxi, I lived in Jiangxi for 10 years as a child, Jiangxi people have a complex of fellow-townspeople; second, listen to the old woman's words of men should respect; Third, come to Australia really no friends, he is the first Chinese we know in Adelaide.
However, what he did afterwards, what he said, really made me feel bad.
I don't know if D is a strong self-esteem caused by a strong inferiority, because I fully understand his breach of contract, which makes him feel guilty, but he is not willing to admit in his heart that he is wrong. So I felt like he was after us. For example, one day a week later, he said my husband smoked and he didn't know. What does my husband have to do with smoking? Not in the room, all in the main road at the door, after smoking, put the cigarette buttocks into their pockets and left them in the garbage bag at home. He said, at the time, he wrote on the Internet to ask the other party not to smoke. Then one day two weeks later, we were asked if we were using a heater at home, and I think we had a heater when we moved. In fact, we didn't open it at all, but he had to say it must have been used! One day in the third week, my mother-in-law was cooking. He called me over very seriously, taught me how to use fire extinguishers, and said cooking at home was easy to cause fire.
I don't know why he's doing this. We agreed to leave in a month. He's worried about us. Won't he leave a month later? So you want to make us uncomfortable in this way?
He was so angry that one day I hugged my husband and said I really didn't want to rent a house.
So we looked at the 2-day house, the third day, signed to buy a house, this is another story, will write another article to buy a house.
Although we ordered a new set of House, in the second week, the new house is still closing and is expected to be handed over in a month. The spirit of the contract, like a brand, is engraved in the bones. We decided to check out on time and rent another house for a transition without a day's delay. The day before I checked out, D texted me that the deposit would not be refundable tomorrow and that the Australian rule would be a few days late. With the accident of A, it is impossible for me to get a deposit any later. What's more, getting along with D really makes you deeply feel the little man's face, so unhappy, how can you agree to take the deposit late again? I know D is very proud, so I returned a line: if you buy furniture because of this time, use my deposit, and I really can't get the money now, then we can discuss it slowly, but if you tell me, This is Australia's rule. To tell the truth, I will not accept it. On the day of check-out, you can check the room, what needs to be compensated for any damage, can say on the spot, do not say on the spot, again in the future, it is not clear whether we broke it.
On the day of check-out, D arrived early, watching as we were cleaning, vacuuming the floor, mop the floor, D had nothing to pick up, and took the deposit and refunded it to me very disgruntarily. Very pointedly, I was very honest. I won't break my promise, and if you don't smoke, I won't break my promise. I looked at his bald, lustrous head, and his face, which was as strong as a child, and suddenly felt sad about him, all of a sudden, did I think he was sad? Don't want to argue with him, give him the key without saying a word.
After receiving the key, the other party immediately turned his face and said, "how come your room is just one?" What about another one?
I looked at him in astonishment, and asked unconsciously: "you gave me a spare key, not that you had to go and give it back, but only one night you let us move, and we didn't ask for it again. Don't you forget it?"
He gave me two in one bite!
I had already sent the key to C, and now D is talking to me again. I'm speechless, D is the rhythm of rogue. I took the deposit and turned and left. I didn't understand what he meant by that. I took a deep breath and asked him what he wanted to do. He asked me to give him six dollars for a key.
I was going to spit blood, really want to laugh, 6 yuan! And? A man's face can reach such a point. I immediately took out my wallet, took 6 yuan to give him, turned around and pulled my husband to drive ~
The old man was confused, because at that time he was on the side when he took the key, everyone was grown up, who was wrong? d is to open his eyes to tell the truth ah.
I comforted him and said, "two possibilities. 1, maybe he did have a key, but he didn't give it to us, but he spent money and wanted us to pay for it, because D said that every room would be rented to one person in the future, and that the extra key would be the money spent in vain." We need to make amends; 2, he may have lost heart mad, we should not be angry about $6 money, should be called flowers, the heart balanced.
I tilted my head to look at the old man's side face in the car, used to be my husband is better than me, always I impulsively want to hit him pull me, today even I comfort him! I was also very angry, suddenly felt very funny, instantly laughed over. After laughing, all this really does not matter, also really not angry.
E-A lovely little old man in Shanghai
Many people say that Shanghainese are xenophobic, I don't know how other Shanghainese are, but as a friend of mine and I, there are really few xenophobic. I lived in Jiangxi for 10 years, and then returned to Shanghai. When I was young in Jiangxi, other children laughed at me as an old Yankee. But when I went to Shanghai, in the eyes of some Shanghai classmates, I would be said to be an outsider. So when I was a kid, I didn't have a very clear line of territory. If I start thinking about Shanghainese and outsiders, that's when I came to Australia. The Shanghai people I met in Australia, to be honest, are all good.
The room that rents E is because and D is good, certain month certain day must move. The new house we bought was closing at the time, and because of the rain, the garden, and the work of the yard, D, after two weeks of renting, posted a post on the Internet asking for rent, wrote down his situation and asked the owner to contact me.
E's room, in a remote seaside with an area of more than a thousand square, rented out a separate grandmother's house, a separate entrance door, a separate room, a hall and a bathroom, and a beautiful lawn beside it. Although there were no flowers like D, it could be seen that they had been carefully managed.
Getting along with E was found to be this very warm old man, although the first impression was that he looked pointy with a sharp chin and a shrewd face, not someone I liked to get in touch with. With the setback in D, I do not want to have too much communication with E, in accordance with the best principle of non-interference.
E first day very warm and I introduced the surrounding business district, but also taught me how to drive there can be 400 meters less. Drive 400 meters less. This topic makes my heart very speechless, but at the same time I also know that the other person is kind, so I am happy to listen carefully to his introduction to how to drive can 400 meters. E is careful, but also warm.
That night, he sent me a text message telling me where the air-conditioning rocker is, where the TV rocker is, and comparing D with the pointy face of the heater that we turned on, and I really wanted to cry.
E single old man lives alone in the main house on the side, because it is not a door hole in and out, so we hardly have any relationship, occasionally in fine weather, we can see E tidy up the garden and mow the lawn. E is a very economical person. Only when the sun is good will use some high-power guys because they have solar panels on their roofs. Even so, E never asks how we have to use electrical appliances. In fact, we also know that their rent includes electricity, so some high-power electrical appliances are basically not used. It was winter in Australia, and my husband turned on the air conditioner for another 20 minutes only when it was too cold. To put it this way, we rented the air conditioner for about eight weeks, and the total time to use the air conditioner would not exceed two hours. In fact, if it is our own house, certainly not so economical.
Get along with E, let me be very comfortable, this kind of get along let you feel equal, both sides are considering for the other side, all respect, understand each other, only then can get along for a long time, can not get along for a long time?
In fact, if we do not get along with D, directly is the rental of the E house, it will not buy a house.
Then we finally got our own house, and the first guest we invited was E. Now we also have occasional connections with E. Although we are two generations, we have no common language, but this is the only of the five landlords I met in Australia, the only feeling is a fellow countryman. This is the true fellow countrymen.
We can see that these years of rental I do not look at the number of times, A landlord did not look at the house, because of the company's reasons, rent directly, the next four times, rented three times.
I conclude that the main reasons for my success in looking at the house are as follows:
1, I do a lot of homework in the early look at the house, analysis of lots, prices, and the introduction of the Internet, and so on, feel that it is OK to choose to look at the house;
2, my heart is relatively large, do not pursue perfection, rental is more or less fine, waste more time to see the house, will eventually find that it is in fact almost the same, the waste is only time. And I met five landlords, some good and bad. Meet a good man, thank God, so that we can know; Bad, think about their mistakes, is it because of their inadvertent words hurt the other side, if not find their own mistakes, then think, there are similar things in the future, how to avoid.
For example, when I meet someone like A, what I have learned now is that the deposit must be made clear in person. Don't wait until the end of the day. Unless you don't want the money, what will you do when you meet such a person? He did not fail to return it, but after all these years, what he still said he wanted to give was that he had never given it. For example, C, I was thinking, is it me and she calculated the deposit, 2 days later feel there is no financial problems, left, before leaving without a phone call to inform her that it hurt her? Should I call her and say a few words of apparent gratitude? It was really tiring to pack and move. I didn't really think about it. I just thought we agreed when we settled the rent deposit two days ago. Now I'm leaving on time. Another example is D. is he a bad guy? In fact, it doesn't count, what I see is the distorted psychology of a man who has not been confident for a long time, and he also has self-esteem. Only when he feels that he is a man who has broken his promise, he must find out some of my problems. To convince himself psychologically, he defaulted because I was wrong, and he defaulted because I was defaulting. As for that 6 yuan, perhaps it is only his memory deviation, after all, only 6 yuan, which bad person only for 6 yuan to tell lies? Among them I also have the place that does not take care of. Future rental, must remember, take a few keys, to write in black and white on the deposit list, anyway, write an extra pen, so that it is not easy to cause memory deviation. I am still very grateful that I can meet E, let me in this lonely city, have a friend who can visit occasionally.
