The heart of the Academy is not the course library, it is the room: landlords, new managers and principals across the Territory comparing notes, sanity-checking notices and getting straight answers, with something live every week of the month.
The Members' Room is the private community every tier joins. It is moderated by the Academy team, Lee-Ann is in it through the week, and the standard is simple: questions get worked by people who do the job.
Post the notice, the fee question or the tenancy that has you stuck, and get an answer grounded in NT practice.
Find the other self-manager in your suburb, or the principal two suburbs over who has already solved your problem.
First door signed, first audit passed, first bond dispute won. Posted, celebrated and kept, so progress is visible.
When the NT rules move, a plain-English alert lands in the room with what changed and what to do next.
The big room is for everyone. The groups are where your track meets its own: same problems, same stage, straight talk.
Where DIY landlords sanity-check a notice before it goes out, compare rent-setting in a thin market, and bring the hard one to the monthly Q&A clinic with Lee-Ann.
New and solo PMs, every fortnight, working the real material: the fee objection, the software decision, the door you nearly signed. Collaboration, not competition.
The table where principals talk real numbers: fees, doors per manager, hiring, and the things you cannot ask a competitor across the road. Small on purpose.
A course library is easy to forget. A calendar is not. Here is a member's month, week by week, every month of the year.
One topic, taught live for an hour by Lee-Ann or a guest specialist, with questions worked at the end. The replay lands in the vault the next day and stays there for as long as you are a member.
The working session for new and solo PMs. Bring what is actually on your desk. The Peer Room meets fortnightly, so its second session lands alongside week four.
The Landlord Circle's live hour. Bring the tenancy you are stuck on and Lee-Ann works it in real time, notice by notice, with the rest of the room learning off the back of it.
Twelve agencies, one table, real numbers. What stays in the room stays in the room.
NT tenancy law is reforming in tranches. Whenever a rule moves, members get a plain-English alert with what changed, who it affects and what to do next. No waiting for the next session.
Every quarter the Darwin office opens for a members' morning: coffee, faces to names, and the questions that go better in person. Free for members.
One a month, live, then into the replay vault. Named now so you know exactly what a year of membership sounds like.
Fee conversations for a lumpy NT market: anchors, scripts and where discounting actually ends.
The trust-account audit year mapped backwards from the deadline, so audit season is a non-event.
Guest: Priya Raman CAPre-wet-season checks, aircon, mould, and the insurance claims a good calendar prevents.
Guest: Nathan Coombe QSThe first call, the tone and the timeline that recovers the rent without losing a fixable tenancy.
What to bring, what to say, and how a boutique pitch wins against a franchise appraisal.
The tools worth paying for on a small book, and the ones that quietly waste your year.
Trust accounting and audit
A chartered accountant and registered company auditor who audits Top End real estate trust accounts. She co-teaches the trust-accounting courses, hosts the quarterly clinic and guests on the audit masterclass.
Tax depreciation and maintenance
A Darwin quantity surveyor preparing ATO-compliant depreciation schedules. He co-teaches the tax and maintenance content and guests on the tropical maintenance masterclass.
There is no member count on this page because the room has not opened. The founding intake will set its culture: the first self-managers in the Landlord Circle, the first PMs in the Peer Room, the first twelve agencies at the Roundtable. Founding members join at the lowest rate the Academy will ever charge, locked for as long as they stay.
Every tier joins the same Members' Room and the same monthly rhythm. The tier sets which courses, groups and sessions come with it, from $29 a month at founding rates.