Tenancy Practice

Tenants from hell – an Auckland landlord’s story

You think it’s easy being a landlord? All we do is sit around and randomly put up rents when our Jags need servicing. Capitalist pigs, feeding from the trough of tenants’ misery. Apparently we bunch people’s undies too. People who think being a landlord is simply a matter of buying a property, finding a tenant, …

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‘Bad’ tenants let off the hook for damage after court ruling

Bad tenants are being unfairly let off the hook for property damage after a court decision, landlords say. The Court of Appeal ruled last week that tenants who caused a fire by leaving oil unattended on a stove in 2009 could not be held financially liable. The Residential Tenancies Act states tenants can be made …

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