A real estate agent has blasted the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) for siding with a tenant who hadn’t paid rent for eight months over the landlord.

VCAT deals with disputes in a range of different areas, including a complaint from a landlord about one tenant.

John Verduci, director and licensed real estate agent at Trimson Partners, labelled VCAT a “joke” for its decision.

“It’s just becoming a joke at VCAT, some of the decisions being handed out lately, you don’t want to be a landlord anymore,” Mr Verduci told Tom Elliott.

“We need an overhaul of VCAT.”

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