Girilang 
Inspections
24 June 2026
6 min read
Condition reports: twenty minutes that decide the bond
The ingoing report is the only document written before anyone has a reason to disagree. That is what makes it worth doing slowly.
NSW
Australian landlord guides
Practical guides for self-managing landlords.
Clear Australian guidance on rental records, leases, condition reports, inspections, tenant applications and compliance, with the relevant state or territory clearly labelled.
Inspections
3 June 2026
6 min read
The routine inspection, done properly
Most inspections check whether the house is tidy. The useful ones check four specific things, and tidiness is not one of them.
NSW
Leases
20 May 2026
6 min read
What actually has to be in a tenancy agreement
The standard form covers more than most landlords realise, and the extra clauses people add are often the ones that will not hold.
NSW
Leases
29 Apr 2026
5 min read
The ninety days before a lease ends
Almost every expensive end-of-tenancy outcome traces back to a decision that should have been made three months earlier.
NSW
Compliance
8 Apr 2026
6 min read
Boarding house rules in NSW, in plain English
What registrable operators need to know about the register, the occupancy principles, and the records a council will ask for.
NSW
Tenants & rent
18 Mar 2026
6 min read
Reading a rental application without guessing
Three checks decide almost everything, and several of the questions landlords ask instinctively are ones they are not allowed to ask at all.
All states
Tenants & rent
25 Feb 2026
5 min read
How to price a room, not a house
Pricing a whole property is comparison. Pricing individual rooms is arithmetic, because no two rooms in a sharehouse are equal.
All states
Tenants & rent
4 Feb 2026
5 min read
Five ways to reduce turnover in a sharehouse
Turnover is the quiet killer of sharehouse margins, and almost all of it is caused by things that are cheap to fix.
All states
