Queensland Tenancy Help
If you are renting a home in Queensland or thinking of doing so soon, the information in this guide will help you avoid common renting pitfalls and to have a harmonious (and lawful) relationship with the property owner or agent. The information on the website outlines the tenants rights and responsibilities in relation to the Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008.
Who’s who? A lessor is the person who gives a tenant the ‘right to occupy’ a residential premises under the Act. Lessors often employ real estate agents to work on their behalf. A provider is a person who provides rooming accommodation to residents.
When you rent a place to live in Queensland, your tenancy agreement is covered by the Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008 (‘the Act’).
If your lessor, agent or provider wants you to move out, they must follow the steps described in the Act
This guide doesn’t take the place of the Act, nor does it pretend to cover everything; but it will give you a good working knowledge of your rights and responsibilities as a tenant. It is not legal advise.
FAQ Guide for Queensland
- Adding Fixtures
- All Rental Bonds
- Applying for a Tenancy
- Applying to the Tribunal
- At the Hearing
- Boarders and Lodgers
- Bond
- Breaking a Fixed Term Agreement
- Change to Notice Period for Rent Increases
- Changes in Notice Periods
- Changes to Shared Bonds
- Checklist End the Tenancy
- Co-Tenancies
- Condition Report
- Death of a Sole Tenant
- Defending a Hearing Application
- Deposits from Prospective Tenants
- Discrimination
- Dispute Resolution - Residential Tenancies Authority
- Dispute Resolution Services
- Dispute Resolution Services - Is conciliation required?
- Disputes about goods left behind
- Disputes about goods left behind - Applying to the Tribunal
- Disputes about locks & keys
- Disputes about notices
- Disputing a rent increase
- Disputing significant changes between agreements
- During your agreement
- Emergency Repairs
- Ending your agreement
- Entry during a two hour period
- Entry when You're Not at Home
- Excessive Rent Increases
- Further Help
- Giving Notice - that you intend to leave
- Going to the Tribunal
- Harassment
- Holding Deposits
- If a mortgagee takes possession
- If premises are for sale
- If there is a Breach of the Agreement
- If you abandon premises
- If you breach the agreement
- If you dispute a notice
- If you dispute the Notice to Leave
- If you dispute the Notice to Remedy Breach
- If you don't have a written agreement
- If you fail to leave
- If you fail to leave - Residential Tenancies
- If you fail to leave - Rooming Accommodation
- If you fail to leave - Self eviction unlawful
- If you get a breach notice
- If you leave goods behind
- If you leave owing rent
- If your bond is not lodged with the RTA
- If your rent is late
- If your rent is late - Repeated breaches
- Information for tenants affected by floods and cyclones in Queensland
- Key Deposits
- Leaving because a breach is not remedied
- Leaving if the lessor or provider fails to fix a breach
- Lessor Ends the Tenancy
- Locks and Keys
- Maximum Bond
- Maximum Bond amounts have changed
- Moveable Dwelling Tenants - Caravans and Mobile Homes
- Moving Out
- Mutual Agreement to End the Tenancy
- New Grounds for Entry
- New Requirements - if rent is to be paid in a way not listed in the Act (e.g. rent card)
- New Tenancy Agreement Forms - Mobile Homes
- Non-Liveabiltiy
- Not sure whether the Act applies to you?
- Notice of Entry
- Notice Requirements
- Notice to Leave
- Notice to Remedy Breach Form
- Notice to Remedy Breach Form - How to Use
- Offences and Penalties
- Options - Agree to include an 'Option'
- Other Documents
- Paying for Service Charges
- Paying money when you apply
- Paying Rent
- Penalties and Fees
- Privacy
- Privacy for Tenants
- QCAT - How to Contact
- Queensland Phone Numbers
- Quick facts - Repairs to the Premises
- Quiet Enjoyment - Excessive Noise
- Receipts
- Release of Bond
- Rent and Other Charges
- Rent Decreases
- Rent for Part of a Period
- Rent in Advance
- Rent Increase - Incorrect Notice
- Rent Increases - An Overview
- Rent Increases Limited
- Rent Payment Methods
- Rent Payment Methods - Rent Cards
- Rent Receipts and Records
- Rent Receipts and Rent in Advance
- Rental Bonds
- Rental properties must be advertised at a fixed price
- Repairs & Maintenance - Lessor Responsibilities
- Repairs & Maintenance - Pest Control
- Repairs & Maintenance - Your Responsibilities
- Repairs - Arranging Emergency Repairs
- Repairs - Can you do repairs yourself?
- Repairs - Can you withhold rent?
- Repairs - Repairs & maintenance - Carpets
- Repairs - Repairs & maintenance - Contracting out
- Repairs affecting health and safety
- Repairs listed on the Entry Condition Report
- Repairs listed on the Entry Report
- Repeated breaches
- Repeated unlawful entry or breach of privacy
- Requesting repairs
- Requesting repairs - Notify the lessor, agent or provider
- Requesting the return of your goods
- Resolving disputes
- Resolving entry disputes
- Resolving Tenancy Disputes
- Resolving tenancy disputes - Negotiating a solution
- Responding to an abandonment notice
- Retaliatory eviction
- Rooming accommodation
- Routine repairs
- Rules about entry
- Seizure of goods for rent
- Serious breach in rooming accommodation
- Service charges
- Service charges - General Tenancies
- Service charges - Moveable dwellings
- Service charges - Rooming accommodation
- Shared tenancies
- Significant changes to new agreements
- Signing the agreement
- Social housing tenants
- Solving disputes
- Standard RTA Agreements
- Starting a tenancy
- Starting a tenancy: Checklist
- Sub-tenancies
- Tenancy agreement
- Tenancy database - Applying to the Tribunal
- Tenancy database - How to contact TICA
- Tenancy database listings
- Tenancy databases
- Tenancy databases - Disputing a database listing
- Tenancy databases - Quick facts
- Tenancy databases - Reasons you can be listed
- Tenancy databases - Steps to remove a listing
- Tenancy databases - Time limits
- Tenancy databases - Who can be listed?
- Tenant damages
- Terminating the tenancy
- Termination by the Tribunal
- The Act
- The advertised rental price
- The entry Condition Report
- The Exit Condition Report
- The hearing date
- The Tribunal decision
- Tribunal abondonment order
- Tribunal decisions
- Tribunal orders about emergency repairs
- Types of agreements
- Unlawful entry
- Warrants of Possession
- Water charges
- What is a rental bond?
- What is a tenancy database?
- What to take to the hearing
- Who attends the hearing?
- Who decides whether you can move in?
- Who is covered by the Act?
- Who is not covered by the Act
- Withdrawing a Notice to Leave
- You want to leave - Breaking a fixed term agreement
- You want to leave - Checklist
- You want to leave - Excessive hardship
- You want to leave - Giving notice
- You want to leave - If you abandon the premises
- You want to leave - Leaving due to damage, injury or harassment
- You want to leave - Moving out
- You want to leave - Mutual agreement
- You want to leave - Transfer and sub-letting
- You want to leave - Withdrawing your notice
- You want to leave - Without grounds
- Your right to privacy and security
- Your tenancy agreement
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