$18m landlord who owns 37 properties: Don't be too kind to your tenants

[PTWhatAGreatForum]

Heather du Plessis-Allan is a thirty-something trying very hard to avoid growing up.

I'd be more inclined to say tabloid trash.

[Eugene]

Yeah there was another article by Heather du Plessis Allan the other day about how being a tenant is so terrible and how to trick you landlord etc.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/ne...ectid=11527143

Heather du Plessis-Allan is a thirty-something trying very hard to avoid growing up.

[Bluekiwi]

Another observation on the house hunters Auckland FB page is the very high percentage of people renting out spare rooms. It appears again most tenants subletting are solo mums with a kid on each hip. I'd love to see their tenancy agreements............

There are some very rich solo mums out there. Not saying how many, but definitely some.
I know of one about 8 years ago.

On dole, with 2 kids to different fathers, claiming for those.
Being given a 4 bedroom house by the tax payer.
Having 2 "Boarders / tenants / subletters" - how ever you like to say it, but certainly not disclosed to WINZ

A partner who lives there but doesn't officially.
And she was also working a few part time cash jobs as well.

Reminds me of a tenant I have who said that her brother also lived with her and her 6 (now 10) kids.
Funny that, she was Maori and he was Samoan

[HouseWorks]

Heather DPA is a landlord herself so why is she making stupid landlord attacks? Perhaps someone could property guru what she and the leftist hubby are sitting on.

[Damap]

Another observation on the house hunters Auckland FB page is the very high percentage of people renting out spare rooms. It appears again most tenants subletting are solo mums with a kid on each hip. I'd love to see their tenancy agreements............

[Damap]

I wasn't talking about other faiths, just Christianity.

[Wayne]

Priests are catholic by the way

Not necessarily so, other faiths can have priests - wiki it.

[Wayne]

She refers to overseas examples which have no relevance to tenancy laws in NZ...

She refers to Matt's LL as being overseas, not Matt.

[Boom]

But, you have to ask the question, where do the bad tenants go ?
Where have they gone ?

Hamilton. Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed a lot more serious crime stories about Hamilton over the last year or so....

[Bluekiwi]

I have felt in recent time, and a good south Auckland property manager said the same thing a few weeks back, that at lot of bad tenants have moved out of Manurewa and they are actually getting good quality people.
My point is that Manurewa capital gains (and maybe rent me things) reflect that, and it does "seem" a much better area, unlike Ranui / Massey.

But, you have to ask the question, where do the bad tenants go ?
Where have they gone ?

[Damap]

Goodness no comparison between those two. Priests are catholic by the way, Beale is not and who knows what "Bishop" T is :-)

[Courham]

Oh he's a great guy and works with the real poor in South Auckland. And he's possibly being taken out of context as well.

So is Brian Tamaki apparently

No such thing as a dodgy priest

Craig

[Damap]

Oh he's a great guy and works with the real poor in South Auckland. And he's possibly being taken out of context as well.

[artemis]

I would not be surprised if the reverend gentleman's comments get rather the opposite reaction. After all, there are many landlords in NZ, most with only 1 or 2 places, and they are more likely to praise that landlord than vilify him. Add in the aspirational and upwardly mobile and there will be few remaining that agree with the rev. If he treats his congregation the same way chances are numbers are shrinking.

A lot of truth in that old saying “If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.”

[Damap]

They'll never change Gary. Even reverend Beales comments, a man I know and respect, are out of line. It's basically a kiwi thing where getting ahead and success, outside of sport,a re not to be tolerated or enjoyed. Basically they are communist/socialist ideals that you are not allowed to have things others don't have and in the case of property there is a complete misunderstanding of the business side of it.

Many of us struggle for years/decades to set ourselves up for retirement and of four kids and there is no understanding of that side of the debate. Debt, stress, management etc. The only counter they "hear" is the illegal flippers and traders that supposedly litter the landscape. When I started 12 years ago it was exactly the same and I am sure older heads will affirm it was probably the same 20 or 30 years ago. It's just more visible thanks to the inter web now.