Emotive and inflamatory -- shame on you Stuff.co.nz

[Keys]

With two young children and a bad credit rating

Chickens coming home to roost. Any comments on this one JimO?

[anonymouse]

From the article:

Breiter moved into her mother's shed with her daughter, and her son now sleeps inside the four-bedroom house - with seven other relatives.

She pays $300 a week for food, power and rent for the one-car garage and said she looked on Trade Me every day for an affordable rental property.

So, in this instance, the "heartless landlord" is her mother??

[Wayne]

$300/wk for the 3 of them - all included. Maybe not so bad - depends a bit on age of children, some will eat you out of house and home.

[Maccachic]

Don't forget babysitting.

[Keys]

I have a reply to my questions at post # 15

Question: How many applications were made to the Tribunal in the calendar year of 2012?

Answer: 41,818

Question: How many of those applications were made by tenants?

Answer: 3,689

Question: How many of those applications were made by landlords?

Answer 38,129


Let's do some maths then:

Less than 9% of all applications were made by tenants.

More than 91% of all applications were made by landlords.

Gotta wonder (well, we in the industry don't but......................)

[DazRaz]

That is likely to be seen by many as proof the landlords are getting better access to justice or causing unnecessary distress to the downtrodden masses.

[flyernzl]

That is likely to be seen by many as proof the landlords are getting better access to justice or causing unnecessary distress to the downtrodden masses.

Every silver lining has its cloud.