The Tribunal held that a shared-house bedroom rental agreement was an occupancy agreement under s 71C of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 (ACT), that the respondents' failure to disclose their intention to sell the premises before the applicant moved in constituted misleading and deceptive conduct under s 18 of the Australian Consumer Law, and that the agreement's termination provisions were inconsistent with the occupancy principles, ordering return of the security deposit less two weeks' rent.
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