What to do? Been hit with the old rent increase from 500-550 a week for a shoebox apartment in Parkville.

To be honest the increase seems fair for the area but the issue comes from the fact we have had nonstop issues that remain unsolved since moving in.

After a month of moving in (Feb 23) the intercom stopped working.

We talked to the REA and was told it was a building issue so to talk to our building manager which we did.

Building manager informs us that it's in the tenancy so is an owner issue.

Back to REA with this information and requested again that it be fixed. REA states owner refused to repair then went radio silent and it reminds unfixed. Queue months of missed packages and pissed off uber drivers trying to call up.

Since then every issue we raise with REA is ignored or given the same response "owner has refused repair" until the extraction fan failed and they refused to fix and ended up causing a number of evacuations because of this so they were forced to sort it (don't ask me how, way above my pay grade)

Either our REA is lying about asking owner and hoping we suck it up or the owner is truely a tight ass.

How many legs do I have to stand on to try get this resolved so they will start fixing the issues or veto the rent increase til it is sorted cause I really can't be assed moving again after only a year.