CITY TRAIN HOMESTAY
Property Manager's Policies
Tenants Types:
There are 4 types of tenants in this Boarding House:
1) Standard,
2) Premium,
3) FIFO,
4) Work Swap for Rent.
Premium tenants pay the premium rent and Standard tenants pay the standard rent. Tenants have the option to choose to be a premium tenant at any week during their stay. Premium tenants pay for Premium Services such as: cooking services, cleaning services, gardening services, maintenance services, etc. Standard Tenants do not pay for cooking services but they do 30 minutes duty per day instead. FIFO Tenants do not pay for the nights they fly out of Perth. Work Swap for Rent tenants work more than their duties in this Boarding House and part of their Total Rent is discounted with the rate of $12/hour of their work in this Boarding House. Premium service for late Basic Payment is $6 [See above table]; a late payer should start doing work swap for rent [WSR] to increase his/her credit amount in the weekly rental plan on Monday. Premium Services are also incurred when a tenant ignores wall notices 1-5. Tenants who do not want their planned dinner at a certain night, they can ask for keeping that dinner for the next lunch. If there is no room in the fridge, those late served dinners would be discarded and the tenant gets no discount for that missed meal. If a breakfast is served to the tenant after 9 AM, a premium service of $2 would apply, and if dinner is served to the tenant after it was announced ready, premium service of $5 would apply, as late served breakfast and dinner requires extra work. Tenants who prefer to have their favorite meals, they pay $15/dinner and $5/breakfast. Tenants who use the kitchen even once in a week longer than 30 minutes/day, they pay $14/week kitchen fee. These premium service charges are to pay for extra gas and services. Tenants who do not participate in weekly cleaning, their rent would increase $10 per week (premium rent).
Home stay:
Breakfast is $2 per person; dinner is $5 per person. Lunch is $4 per box. Breakfast & Dinner for one week is $49. Weekly favorite meals order should be a week in advance. Please make your order to me for the next day if you just want some extra meals. The condition of being home stay is recorded on the rental plan of each tenant. This means that home stay tenant must order breakfast & dinner for the duration of his/her rental contract. If a home stay tenant did not like a meal, he/she still has to pay for that meal. If he/she wants more of each meal, then payment for snacks is required. Check the snacks list. Tenants who prefer their favorite meals, they pay $15/dinner and $5/breakfast. Visitors, who participate in BBQ events, pay $15 for BBQ dinner and if they work for BBQ, their dinner is free. This work includes turning on the BBQ and maintaining it and arranging the BBQ table with dishes, meals & drinks. In the absence of visitors, tenants take turn in BBQ duty, which is swapped with BBQ fun only. Only 2 dinners per week would be kept in fridge if the tenant is not present at dinner time. Breakfast would not be kept for tenant if the tenant is not present before 9 am at the table.
FIFO Rental:
You do not pay for the weeks you fly out to work. Your rent includes share in 200 GB WIFI Broadband cable Internet+ free national and local calls by phone + all utilities + food already in kitchen pantries such as oil, sugar, tea, sauces, coffee, Milo, spices, etc. Also dish washing detergent, cleaning detergents and toilet papers are included. FIFO tenants must pay for breakfast and dinner during their stay in Perth. The nightly rate for over one month stay, for a FIFO tenant is $30 which includes breakfast+ dinner+utilities+Internet+rent.You only pay this amount for each night you stay in your room. If you leave nylon boxes in the garage for storage, the storage cost is $5 per 50 liter box per week. You remove your luggage from your room when you leave. FIFO Tenants who use other rooms than room 1 for their night sleep, pay premium service of $3 per night. FIFO Tenants should stay in this boarding house at least 30 nights.
Airport Transfer:
Tenants booking for airport transfer should call me by public phone or by mobile phone (with Australian sim card) on arrival time from the airport. I would then start driving to the airport to pick up. On leaving the airport gate, the tenants pay for parking fee to the airport. Airport transfer is $30, payable on arrival time. Taxi cost is approximately $74 if you catch a taxi from the airport. It is cheaper to hire a car outside the airport. Lift by car in the city is $10 + $20/hour of return trip to home. Tenants who fly from another city to Perth and cannot see this Homstay before they sign a contract should pay $220 [costs + deposits + bond] at airport to property manager and stay in this boarding house minimum of 2 nights. Then after this type tenant visited the house and had a chance to read all terms & conditions, can sign for a longer contract. The maximum refund for such a tenant out of the $220 payment would be $90.
Kitchen fee:
Kitchen fee for tenants who cook in the kitchen longer than 30 minutes per day is $2/night which works out to be $14/week for a tenant who uses this option once in a week.
Bond:
Tenants pay a bond of $50 - $600 depending on the length of their stay & the room they are in. In case any damage is done by the tenant on the items in the house, or the tenancy agreement is breached, or wall notices are ignored, the loss value would be deducted from this bond. The bond would be refunded to the tenant partly or fully at the end of the tenancy contract. Tenants who fail to do their duties, their debit duties would be counted with the rate of $12 per hour and this owed duties amount would be nonrefundable from their bond. Debit duties which evaluates nearly the same as bond, would be charged as a premium service whenever the property manager decides. In case a rental plan was extended, the bond for previous rental plan would be upgraded. Certain behavior is expected from tenants, and these are mentioned in Wall Notices 1-5. Misbehavior can cause bond deduction. Property manager has this right to charge the tenants for premium services without a witness.
Deposit:
A deposit of $40 for departure clean and key deposit would be taken on arrival in advance. Upon returning the key and cleaning the areas used during stay, $40 deposit would be refunded. If the tenant does not wish to clean, only $10 for key deposit would be refunded. Cleaning job is done upon the departure clean sheet.
Wall Notices:
There are some notices and reminders taped to the walls & doors in this house. These notices guide the tenants how to behave and care about the living standards. Failing to abide by these notices would issue premium services for the tenant in his/her rental plan. If the tenant did not pay for this service in the following Monday, this premium services would be deducted from the bond of that tenant. On the rental plan this amount would be recorded as Premium Services. The reason why would be written on the rental plan, as well as the catch time for that failure. Premium Services include: House cleaning, Cooking, Shopping, Carpet cleaning, Yard duty, Health care, Security care, Energy Saving, Care for safety, etc.
Arrival expenses:
Tenants who are picked up from the airport should pay all their 2 nights expenses in advance on arrival date at the airport. Other tenants should pay their two weeks expenses in advance on arrival date. The following table shows the costs per tenant. The two weeks starts from Monday. If arrival date is different than Monday, advanced payment extends to Monday. For example if a tenant arrives at 4 pm on Friday, he pays for 2 weeks + 3 nights in advance.
Terms & Conditions for Tenants:
Failure to sign and date the Terms & Conditions for Tenants would cause rejection to stay in the house on arrival date or later on. Tenants, who are supposed to be picked up from airport by me, pay their arrival expenses for two nights to me at the airport. The payment for these two nights would be calculated.Therefore if you need to see what you get, then you want to sign a long term contract, you will pay your arrival expenses + $30 airport pick up to me at airport Please carry cash Australian dollars with you to pay me at pick up time.
Inspection: The owner has the right to inspect rooms for breaching the terms & conditions.
Yard Duty:
Standard tenants are required to spend half an hour per day on duties. This work might include weeding the garden, lawn mowing, sweeping the yard, cleaning sprinklers, spraying insects, poisoning mice under the roof, spreading isolation wool under the roof, and gutter cleaning [refer to the duties list]. Each tenant who rents longer than one week should spend 2.5 hours on departure clean duties [Refer to Wall Notice 2]. Work in this boarding house is considered as work for your temporary home, therefore you are responsible and liable for your safety during duty time, not the property manager. Tenants should wear goggles in some duties for the safety of their eyes. Also they should wear enclosed suitable shoes for the required work in this boarding house. There are also un-timed duties which tenants do such as cleaning their own room every 3 weeks.
Swap Work with Rent:
Tenants who wish to swap work with their rent, they can do so with $12 an hour rate for their work taken off from their rent. Jobs available can be painting walls, wood work & Installation, gardening, etc. For example by doing 13 hours/week swap work, your rent shrinks from $161/week to $5/week! If a tenant does not pay his/her basic payment on Monday, then either he/she will starts work swap for rent straight away for 16 hours, or the insurance company would deal with rent default.
Closure Time:
City Train Home is closed after 12 midnight every day. Tenants who arrive home after this time can find the house doors locked. The key to the front Security Screen door would not be given to the tenants for security reasons. Tenants should make sure that they arrive in the house before 12 midnight, if they are out.
Cancelation:
Call me to explain
Discontinuing the rental contract by Property Manager:
Call me to Explain
Mail after departing:
Departing tenants should redirect their mail through Bull Creek Post Office. All mails & parcels received to this house after a tenant departed would be returned to the Bull Creek Post office by a tag written on it: RTS (i.e. Return to Sender)
Renewal of the Policy:
This policy is subject to change in future. The rent, bond & deposit would not change for long term tenants who stay here less than six months. Tenants are required to sign and date the updated policy. The updated policy date will be the policy which next tenant after that date started his/her rental agreement with me.
Afsaneh Cooper
Property Manager / Owner of the City Train Home - Boarding House
Property Manager's Policies
Tenants Types:
There are 4 types of tenants in this Boarding House:
1) Standard,
2) Premium,
3) FIFO,
4) Work Swap for Rent.
Premium tenants pay the premium rent and Standard tenants pay the standard rent. Tenants have the option to choose to be a premium tenant at any week during their stay. Premium tenants pay for Premium Services such as: cooking services, cleaning services, gardening services, maintenance services, etc. Standard Tenants do not pay for cooking services but they do 30 minutes duty per day instead. FIFO Tenants do not pay for the nights they fly out of Perth. Work Swap for Rent tenants work more than their duties in this Boarding House and part of their Total Rent is discounted with the rate of $12/hour of their work in this Boarding House. Premium service for late Basic Payment is $6 [See above table]; a late payer should start doing work swap for rent [WSR] to increase his/her credit amount in the weekly rental plan on Monday. Premium Services are also incurred when a tenant ignores wall notices 1-5. Tenants who do not want their planned dinner at a certain night, they can ask for keeping that dinner for the next lunch. If there is no room in the fridge, those late served dinners would be discarded and the tenant gets no discount for that missed meal. If a breakfast is served to the tenant after 9 AM, a premium service of $2 would apply, and if dinner is served to the tenant after it was announced ready, premium service of $5 would apply, as late served breakfast and dinner requires extra work. Tenants who prefer to have their favorite meals, they pay $15/dinner and $5/breakfast. Tenants who use the kitchen even once in a week longer than 30 minutes/day, they pay $14/week kitchen fee. These premium service charges are to pay for extra gas and services. Tenants who do not participate in weekly cleaning, their rent would increase $10 per week (premium rent).
Home stay:
Breakfast is $2 per person; dinner is $5 per person. Lunch is $4 per box. Breakfast & Dinner for one week is $49. Weekly favorite meals order should be a week in advance. Please make your order to me for the next day if you just want some extra meals. The condition of being home stay is recorded on the rental plan of each tenant. This means that home stay tenant must order breakfast & dinner for the duration of his/her rental contract. If a home stay tenant did not like a meal, he/she still has to pay for that meal. If he/she wants more of each meal, then payment for snacks is required. Check the snacks list. Tenants who prefer their favorite meals, they pay $15/dinner and $5/breakfast. Visitors, who participate in BBQ events, pay $15 for BBQ dinner and if they work for BBQ, their dinner is free. This work includes turning on the BBQ and maintaining it and arranging the BBQ table with dishes, meals & drinks. In the absence of visitors, tenants take turn in BBQ duty, which is swapped with BBQ fun only. Only 2 dinners per week would be kept in fridge if the tenant is not present at dinner time. Breakfast would not be kept for tenant if the tenant is not present before 9 am at the table.
FIFO Rental:
You do not pay for the weeks you fly out to work. Your rent includes share in 200 GB WIFI Broadband cable Internet+ free national and local calls by phone + all utilities + food already in kitchen pantries such as oil, sugar, tea, sauces, coffee, Milo, spices, etc. Also dish washing detergent, cleaning detergents and toilet papers are included. FIFO tenants must pay for breakfast and dinner during their stay in Perth. The nightly rate for over one month stay, for a FIFO tenant is $30 which includes breakfast+ dinner+utilities+Internet+rent.You only pay this amount for each night you stay in your room. If you leave nylon boxes in the garage for storage, the storage cost is $5 per 50 liter box per week. You remove your luggage from your room when you leave. FIFO Tenants who use other rooms than room 1 for their night sleep, pay premium service of $3 per night. FIFO Tenants should stay in this boarding house at least 30 nights.
Airport Transfer:
Tenants booking for airport transfer should call me by public phone or by mobile phone (with Australian sim card) on arrival time from the airport. I would then start driving to the airport to pick up. On leaving the airport gate, the tenants pay for parking fee to the airport. Airport transfer is $30, payable on arrival time. Taxi cost is approximately $74 if you catch a taxi from the airport. It is cheaper to hire a car outside the airport. Lift by car in the city is $10 + $20/hour of return trip to home. Tenants who fly from another city to Perth and cannot see this Homstay before they sign a contract should pay $220 [costs + deposits + bond] at airport to property manager and stay in this boarding house minimum of 2 nights. Then after this type tenant visited the house and had a chance to read all terms & conditions, can sign for a longer contract. The maximum refund for such a tenant out of the $220 payment would be $90.
Kitchen fee:
Kitchen fee for tenants who cook in the kitchen longer than 30 minutes per day is $2/night which works out to be $14/week for a tenant who uses this option once in a week.
Bond:
Tenants pay a bond of $50 - $600 depending on the length of their stay & the room they are in. In case any damage is done by the tenant on the items in the house, or the tenancy agreement is breached, or wall notices are ignored, the loss value would be deducted from this bond. The bond would be refunded to the tenant partly or fully at the end of the tenancy contract. Tenants who fail to do their duties, their debit duties would be counted with the rate of $12 per hour and this owed duties amount would be nonrefundable from their bond. Debit duties which evaluates nearly the same as bond, would be charged as a premium service whenever the property manager decides. In case a rental plan was extended, the bond for previous rental plan would be upgraded. Certain behavior is expected from tenants, and these are mentioned in Wall Notices 1-5. Misbehavior can cause bond deduction. Property manager has this right to charge the tenants for premium services without a witness.
Deposit:
A deposit of $40 for departure clean and key deposit would be taken on arrival in advance. Upon returning the key and cleaning the areas used during stay, $40 deposit would be refunded. If the tenant does not wish to clean, only $10 for key deposit would be refunded. Cleaning job is done upon the departure clean sheet.
Wall Notices:
There are some notices and reminders taped to the walls & doors in this house. These notices guide the tenants how to behave and care about the living standards. Failing to abide by these notices would issue premium services for the tenant in his/her rental plan. If the tenant did not pay for this service in the following Monday, this premium services would be deducted from the bond of that tenant. On the rental plan this amount would be recorded as Premium Services. The reason why would be written on the rental plan, as well as the catch time for that failure. Premium Services include: House cleaning, Cooking, Shopping, Carpet cleaning, Yard duty, Health care, Security care, Energy Saving, Care for safety, etc.
Arrival expenses:
Tenants who are picked up from the airport should pay all their 2 nights expenses in advance on arrival date at the airport. Other tenants should pay their two weeks expenses in advance on arrival date. The following table shows the costs per tenant. The two weeks starts from Monday. If arrival date is different than Monday, advanced payment extends to Monday. For example if a tenant arrives at 4 pm on Friday, he pays for 2 weeks + 3 nights in advance.
Terms & Conditions for Tenants:
Failure to sign and date the Terms & Conditions for Tenants would cause rejection to stay in the house on arrival date or later on. Tenants, who are supposed to be picked up from airport by me, pay their arrival expenses for two nights to me at the airport. The payment for these two nights would be calculated.Therefore if you need to see what you get, then you want to sign a long term contract, you will pay your arrival expenses + $30 airport pick up to me at airport Please carry cash Australian dollars with you to pay me at pick up time.
Inspection: The owner has the right to inspect rooms for breaching the terms & conditions.
Yard Duty:
Standard tenants are required to spend half an hour per day on duties. This work might include weeding the garden, lawn mowing, sweeping the yard, cleaning sprinklers, spraying insects, poisoning mice under the roof, spreading isolation wool under the roof, and gutter cleaning [refer to the duties list]. Each tenant who rents longer than one week should spend 2.5 hours on departure clean duties [Refer to Wall Notice 2]. Work in this boarding house is considered as work for your temporary home, therefore you are responsible and liable for your safety during duty time, not the property manager. Tenants should wear goggles in some duties for the safety of their eyes. Also they should wear enclosed suitable shoes for the required work in this boarding house. There are also un-timed duties which tenants do such as cleaning their own room every 3 weeks.
Swap Work with Rent:
Tenants who wish to swap work with their rent, they can do so with $12 an hour rate for their work taken off from their rent. Jobs available can be painting walls, wood work & Installation, gardening, etc. For example by doing 13 hours/week swap work, your rent shrinks from $161/week to $5/week! If a tenant does not pay his/her basic payment on Monday, then either he/she will starts work swap for rent straight away for 16 hours, or the insurance company would deal with rent default.
Closure Time:
City Train Home is closed after 12 midnight every day. Tenants who arrive home after this time can find the house doors locked. The key to the front Security Screen door would not be given to the tenants for security reasons. Tenants should make sure that they arrive in the house before 12 midnight, if they are out.
Cancelation:
Call me to explain
Discontinuing the rental contract by Property Manager:
Call me to Explain
Mail after departing:
Departing tenants should redirect their mail through Bull Creek Post Office. All mails & parcels received to this house after a tenant departed would be returned to the Bull Creek Post office by a tag written on it: RTS (i.e. Return to Sender)
Renewal of the Policy:
This policy is subject to change in future. The rent, bond & deposit would not change for long term tenants who stay here less than six months. Tenants are required to sign and date the updated policy. The updated policy date will be the policy which next tenant after that date started his/her rental agreement with me.
Afsaneh Cooper
Property Manager / Owner of the City Train Home - Boarding House
