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First time poster, looking for some advice.
I recently moved into a house with a few of my friends. The house was being rented at the time and was told by the person renting the house that a bond would need to be paid to the landlord, however the landlord had not specified a given amount or time frame as to which the bond would need to be paid.
A week or two later, another individual moved in to help with the rent, at this point we now have 6 people living within a large house with 5 bedrooms.
Months go by and the landlord begins to start coming over on a daily basis, doing so called 'work' on the property without any notifications at all. We then see him peering through our windows, looking into our rubbish and coming into the house without our permission. He even left a window open which allowed for an individual to nearly rob us
We are then told the house would be turned into a boarding house as rent was still somewhat unpaid during the time frame when previous individuals had moved out and I had moved in. We were all then given a piece of paper with certain rules we had to now abide by or else we would all be kicked out immediately (as we are now borders instead of renters). The landlord said he would now come over often (pretty much daily) to check that all rules were being followed and wouldn't need our consent to come into the house or on the property as we are now borders. The rent would also be increased as of the same week of informing us, to cover the previous rent as well as the bonds of the new members of the house.
We have not been given anything to sign, no one has come around to inspect the property, we have never been given any receipt of any kind for any payment previously made, hence he could easily not refund our bonds as there has been no recordings of past and current damage, and we have tried to talk to him but he is just a brick wall and keeps threatening us with eviction.
I have been going through this website dbh.govt.nz as well as reading various sections of the RTA. Does anyone have any advice in what we can do in this situation? Or should we all just face eviction. Going to the courts will just infuriate him further and decrease the time we have in the property.
I recently moved into a house with a few of my friends. The house was being rented at the time and was told by the person renting the house that a bond would need to be paid to the landlord, however the landlord had not specified a given amount or time frame as to which the bond would need to be paid.
A week or two later, another individual moved in to help with the rent, at this point we now have 6 people living within a large house with 5 bedrooms.
Months go by and the landlord begins to start coming over on a daily basis, doing so called 'work' on the property without any notifications at all. We then see him peering through our windows, looking into our rubbish and coming into the house without our permission. He even left a window open which allowed for an individual to nearly rob us
We are then told the house would be turned into a boarding house as rent was still somewhat unpaid during the time frame when previous individuals had moved out and I had moved in. We were all then given a piece of paper with certain rules we had to now abide by or else we would all be kicked out immediately (as we are now borders instead of renters). The landlord said he would now come over often (pretty much daily) to check that all rules were being followed and wouldn't need our consent to come into the house or on the property as we are now borders. The rent would also be increased as of the same week of informing us, to cover the previous rent as well as the bonds of the new members of the house.
We have not been given anything to sign, no one has come around to inspect the property, we have never been given any receipt of any kind for any payment previously made, hence he could easily not refund our bonds as there has been no recordings of past and current damage, and we have tried to talk to him but he is just a brick wall and keeps threatening us with eviction.
I have been going through this website dbh.govt.nz as well as reading various sections of the RTA. Does anyone have any advice in what we can do in this situation? Or should we all just face eviction. Going to the courts will just infuriate him further and decrease the time we have in the property.
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