We know what is squeezing the life out of the rental market

[Davo36]

The lefty academics are the only ones who have unlimited time and unlimited (Government) funding.
The rest of us are too busy scratching a living.

Work faster!

[flyernzl]

The lefty academics are the only ones who have unlimited time and unlimited (Government) funding.
The rest of us are too busy scratching a living.

[sidinz]

Crackdown on mouldy rental homes, as 1947 law shows its teeth
2 August 2018

Of the same era as the infamous 'fire or approved heating' requirement. When will these people realise that these laws were written for a different time with different lifestyles and technologies? It was pretty much a given, then, that people would heat their houses with a roaring, drying fire in the colder months and have the windows and doors flung open during the warmer ones. Therefore, any dampness was almost certainly to be a fault of the house.
The whole thing needs to be updated for modern living, with consultation from all stakeholders and not just the lefty academics.

[cube]

Maybe landlords will need to go in at 4am to stoke the fire and prepare breakfast.

That'd be a turn around.

[McDuck]

I had one renter that managed to turn a nice fresh place into a damp mouldy cave.

They just had lots of plants and watered them each day and never opened the windows for ventilation.


Their lifestyle was up and out early , back late and away most weekends.

Assuming they couldn't change their habits, I suppose some sort of ventilation was in order.


Trouble was, I had never even seen that sort of thing before.

This is where being an experienced landlord is an advantage.

[artemis]

The next step will be a LL fined for failing to keep a rental warm, despite supplying a heat source.

No problem Perry. Landlord installs a smartphone app that monitors temperature in every room and automagically turns on the heating full bore until the whole property meets the required temperature. Tenant pays the power bill of course, and also the increased rent for all the monitoring and heating sources. What fun eh!

It was reported recently that in Ashford Borough Council in the UK there are huuuuge fines for landlords where a doesn't fix heating systems within a few days if there is a baby there. And that one large private landlord plans a programme of evictions where a baby is on the way.

In NZ the Healthy Homes Guarantee Act standards probably won't go that far. Interesting to see how practical any new standards are and what unintended consequences follow.

[Perry]

The next step will be a LL fined for failing to keep a rental warm, despite supplying a heat source.

[Wayne]

So they're saying tenants can just close all windows, dry laundry inside and turn on a gas heater and week later apply to TT?

Almost seems like that doesn't it.
You'd hope that the devil is in the detail of each case.

[AlFa]

So they're saying tenants can just close all windows, dry laundry inside and turn on a gas heater and week later apply to TT?

[Perry]

Crackdown on mouldy rental homes, as 1947 law shows its teeth
2 August 2018

The Tenancy Tribunal is cracking down on damp rental properties with the help of a law from 70 years ago. A little known law from 1947 saying homes must be "free from dampness" was unearthed in a 2015 study by law academics and is now being used by the tribunal to vigorously clamp down on damp and mouldy rental properties. Bryan and Skye Donnelly were awarded $2000 in damages by the tribunal last month for dampness and mould found at a Mt Eden unit they rented from Alison Joy Edwards.

[McDuck]

Bringing back price or value to a human perspective.
(a single person that is, not a community or organisation).


Most people do a simple procedure to figure out the value of a thing.


First they go to their memory to see what they paid for it last time.

Then they compare the quantity and quality of the thing to the memory of the last time the bought that type of thing..

Then they add some because they expect price inflation.

If the numbers on the price tag are lower, they feel they are getting a bargain.
If they are a bit higher then they moan about price creep.
If they are really high, they may not buy because the seller is probably the creep.

[McDuck]

What makes the product $380? Why not $200? Or $300? Or $85?

WEll

Oh, good question.


What gives a thing value?


To answer this you need to say what creature you are talking about.


In this case its still okay to look at the monkey brain.


Well, perhaps not the brain, perhaps we need to break the monkey down into little Lego block type pieces called cells.


A thing has higher value if the monkey cell needs it to continue its existence.


So water for example has a high value when the cell is deflating through lack of it.


Fish don't value water as much as monkeys, because they had the good sense to stay in it.


The equation of value is somewhat more complicated in the monkey brain because its a more complex collection, and is in fact part of its tribe.

[eri]

What makes the product $380? Why not $200? Or $300? Or $85?

generally the price to produce or replace it

renting is expensive because housing is expensive

+ housing is expensive because councils are out of their depth...

[Perry]

Market forces, vendor need and buyer need.

[Don't believe the Hype]

What makes the product $380? Why not $200? Or $300? Or $85?