Hi All, We recently converted out PPoR to IP. Just wondering, if property manager can liase with council to get the rates notice sent to them or I need to organise this with council? Property is in VIC. TIA
I organised mine through my property manager. They just had a form to fill in to let them know which bills you wanted them to pay, then they contacted each of them for me. I just had to give them the account details for each company
Interesting. I asked my PM to organise it and she asked me to contact the council and ask them to send the rates notice directly to PM’s office.
Your property manager will normally organise council, strata if applicable, water - and anything else you may have agreed for them to pay - for you. Some providers may have rules that make it make it difficult for anyone but the owner to change their systems but otherwise the property manager will take care of all that.
Property manager should be easily able to Melmac. You just need to let them know. Mine are all paid from the rent by property manager/agency!. Cheers,
I’ve found that as the owner I needed to inform the council to change the postal address to the PM and they then handle the payments going forward. It’s a pretty straight forward process to get it set up.
Might vary per state? Here in SA: We can arrange bills to come to us ourselves, as long as we have the assessment or account number.
PM can do it but needs your consent, otherwise anyone would just call and change where the bills get sent. Regardless who obtains, fills or sends the form, you need to sign the form as the owner. So it is a negotiating process between PM and you. My council, water rates, landlord insurance, strata is paid by my PMs, but I choose to pay all my Building Insurances as I like to update or make yearly changes and have maybe too many of them so prefer total control.
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