All Tenants

For information about your rights and responsibilities:

• read an introduction to your rights as a tenant in New South Wales
• look at the Tenants Rights Factsheets
  
• contact your local Tenants Advice and Advocacy Service.

Tenancy Advice and Advocacy Services

Your local Tenants Advice and Advocacy Service can give you information and advice over the phone. Find your local service by typing your postcode or suburb in the FIND YOUR LOCAL SERVICE search box to the left.

Further information about Tenants Advice and Advocacy Services.

Tenants Rights Factsheets

These factsheets give an overview of tenants' rights and responsibilities under NSW law.

Also see sample letters that may be of help with resolving tenancy issues.

1. Residential Tenancies Act
2. Starting a tenancy
3. Bond
4. Rent increases
5. Rent arrears
6. Repairs and maintenance
   
7. Locks and security
8. Access and privacy
9. You want to leave
10. Landlord ends agreement
11. Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal
12. Public tenants
13. Strata scheme tenants
14. Boarders and lodgers
15. Share housing
16. Ending the tenancy early
17. Discrimination
18. Lead
19. Tenant databases
20. Smoke alarms
21. Mortgagees and tenants
22. Storm damage