I WOULD like to endorse Andrew Hirst's comments and perhaps show another issue in the rental market, ("Landlords need protection, too" Letters, 9/11). I became an "accidental" landlord in the North Sydney district because my son needed a permanent work address there. When my son left the area, I used a real estate agent to manage my property for a fee. I could not keep a tenant for more than 12 months.
Each new tenant was costing me two months' rent to cover agent's expenses and a rent-free period for the new tenant. Eventually I met a tenant, because of a strange report about a hole in a solid concrete wall. Our conversation revealed several things.
