Students fight for rental bonds
An increase in rental bond disputes and a backlog of cases is causing frustration amongst international students trying to reclaim their bonds before they return home.
Increasingly, students are being forced to take take their disputes with the Residential Tenancies Bond Authority (RTBA) to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, known as VCAT, but a backlog of cases means 12 months after ending a lease, some students are yet to get any part of their bond back.
Once they have finish their studies and returned home, the process becomes even more difficult, as Chanchan Wu reports.
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Chanchan Wu