Sandy* noticed eight cameras when she inspected the home last month, but had been assured they were inactive.
With no other option to house herself and her children, she signed a lease, and moved in at the end of July.
“Something just didn’t feel right,” she said.
Then on her first night in the home, she walked into the lounge room and a camera lit up.
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Sandy said the three property managers and the owner of the agency said they did not know who owned the cameras.
I would 100% be pouring water through the NVR.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Queensland mother fears her family was secretly filmed by internal cameras in their rental house, which the agent has refused to remove.
She rang her property manager the next morning but they refused to remove the cameras, which they described as “a high-end system costing thousands of dollars”.
The stove top and heating had to be turned off at the source, and three doors in the laundry, living room and master bedroom were locked, and Sandy had not been given keys.
In the letter, she requested her lease be terminated due “to quite an egregious pattern” of contraventions of the Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008, which sets out tenants’ rights.
“Renters have a right to the quiet enjoyment of their home which could be breached if there are cameras inside your space,” Ms Carr said.
But she said they could not access anything on the hard drive connected to the cameras, and told Sandy to use the deactivation link sent by the property manager, which she said did not work.
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even better. basically admitting to knowledge of the devices yet i bet they are not on the initial condition report. destroy the things and dump them at the agents door along with a note advising their lawyer will be in contact with them. They are toast