As I have already said, elsewhere:
All of the above is really just fiddling with the problem.
You'd really need to be an accountant to enjoy fiddling around with Watercare's invoices, paying bits and sending other bits through to the tenant and then chasing up when the tenant is a slow payer.
Who needs that waste of time and effort?
What we really need is a change to the Act so that:
- all water, wastewater and water-related fixed charges are fully the tenants responsibility (as they are with electricity and telephone services).
- either legislation to compel the water supply authority (Watercare in this case) to accept a residential tenant as a full and sole customer for the water supply or set up a competitive water supply market where the customer has the freedom to chose from alternative suppliers.
Anything else is just pissing in the soup.
We need to get enough Landlords sufficiently wound up about this to act together to get the RTA changed.
All of the above is really just fiddling with the problem.
You'd really need to be an accountant to enjoy fiddling around with Watercare's invoices, paying bits and sending other bits through to the tenant and then chasing up when the tenant is a slow payer.
Who needs that waste of time and effort?
What we really need is a change to the Act so that:
- all water, wastewater and water-related fixed charges are fully the tenants responsibility (as they are with electricity and telephone services).
- either legislation to compel the water supply authority (Watercare in this case) to accept a residential tenant as a full and sole customer for the water supply or set up a competitive water supply market where the customer has the freedom to chose from alternative suppliers.
Anything else is just pissing in the soup.
We need to get enough Landlords sufficiently wound up about this to act together to get the RTA changed.
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