Rooming house software for Northern Territory boarding houses.
The Territory’s standard agreement filled in and signed online for each room, bonds held in trust as the Act asks, and every room’s condition report and repairs in one place.
Operator is $99 a month for up to 40 tenancies, with unlimited staff, and empty rooms never count. 30 days free, no card.
The agreement LeaseDock fills in.
The Northern Territory has no separate rooming house law. The Residential Tenancies Act 1999 applies to a room as it does to a house, for a resident who rents the room as a tenant or who boards or lodges there with 2 or more others. So a room under the Act goes on the Territory’s standard agreement in Schedule 2, which LeaseDock fills in word for word and the resident signs online.
The Act reaches a boarder or lodger only if they board or lodge week to week or longer and are one of 3 or more people boarding or lodging there, not counting the landlord, the landlord’s family or a caretaker (regulation 4).
Residential Tenancies Regulations 2000 (NT Consumer Affairs)What LeaseDock keeps track of.
- The agreement The Schedule 2 standard agreement filled in and signed online for each room.
- The bond Recorded on the room, held in trust as the Act requires.
- Inspections Scheduled for each room, with an entry notice drafted for you to check and give.
- Condition reports Room by room with photos, with the kitchen, lounge and bathrooms set up once and included in every room’s report.
- Fees Payments matched from your bank CSV for you to confirm, and polite reminders.
- Your team Unlimited staff, each seeing only the houses you give them.
The rules, with their sources.
What the Northern Territory asks of you, as LeaseDock holds it. Each rule links to the page it was read on.
- Which law applies
The Northern Territory has no separate rooming house law. The Residential Tenancies Act 1999 applies to a room as it does to a house, for a resident who rents the room as a tenant or who boards or lodges there with 2 or more others.
- Who it reaches
The Act reaches a boarder or lodger only if they board or lodge week to week or longer and are one of 3 or more people boarding or lodging there, not counting the landlord, the landlord’s family or a caretaker (regulation 4).
- Bond
As for a house, once the Act applies. The Northern Territory has no bond board. Hold the bond in trust in a bank or ADI account (s29) and give a receipt immediately for cash, cheque or card, or within 2 business days for a transfer (s31). Only one bond may be taken, of at most four weeks’ rent.
- Entering a room
Arrange the time of an inspection with the resident at least 7 days before it. An inspection is allowed once every 3 months at the most, or less often if the agreement says so. You may enter between 7am and 9pm, at the time you arranged. These rules are for the resident’s own room. Kitchens, bathrooms and other areas they share with other residents are outside them (section 68(2)).
Read in Residential Tenancies Act 1999 (NT), as in force at 1 August 2025, and Residential Tenancies Regulations 2000, as in force at 2 January 2024. A guide, not legal advice.
Questions Territory boarding house operators ask.
Which agreement does a room in the Northern Territory go on?
In the Northern Territory a room is under the Residential Tenancies Act once 3 or more people board or lodge there, and the agreement it provides for is the standard one. LeaseDock fills it in word for word, and the resident signs online.
Does the Residential Tenancies Act apply to boarders in the Northern Territory?
The Northern Territory has no separate rooming house law. The Residential Tenancies Act 1999 applies to a room as it does to a house, for a resident who rents the room as a tenant or who boards or lodges there with 2 or more others. The Act reaches a boarder or lodger only if they board or lodge week to week or longer and are one of 3 or more people boarding or lodging there, not counting the landlord, the landlord’s family or a caretaker (regulation 4).
What happens to a boarder’s bond in the Northern Territory?
As for a house, once the Act applies. The Northern Territory has no bond board. Hold the bond in trust in a bank or ADI account (s29) and give a receipt immediately for cash, cheque or card, or within 2 business days for a transfer (s31). Only one bond may be taken, of at most four weeks’ rent.
What does LeaseDock cost for a rooming house?
Operator is $99 a month for up to 40 tenancies, with unlimited staff, and empty rooms never count. 30 days free, no card.
Is this legal advice?
No. LeaseDock tracks your obligations and links each one to the rule it came from, so you can check it. Where LeaseDock has not checked a rule, it says so and gives you a reminder, never an invented date.
Try it free, beside what you have now.
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