replacing a leaky roof in residential rental house...tenant wants rent relief

[skid]

Does anyone know a rule of thumb way to deal with this request?
We had our roof replaced in our house a few years back, and it was perfectly livable at the time.
The tenant runs a massage clinic from one room, and is not happy with the fact it will be disrupted.
She wants a firm start...

[Jeffa]

When you take out the bottom of the market and landlords exit , it's the bottom of society who gets affected the most.

Loss of Tax deductibility on mortgages, increased compliance costs and general anti landlord sentiment caused by media and the current government was the most likely cause...

[donna]

There are definitely LLs out there with zero scruples...

See the Stuff article - tenant had their rent increased by $150 a week - definitely well over the top - and then once that's in place gave her 90 days to vacate for 'renovations'.

Reading between the lines - the high...

[EddieHJJ]

Hi everyone,

Wonder if someone comes across this and can give some advice:

I have a residential tenant who uses part of the property (garage) as a storage space for their material and gear for their private business.

So my questions are:

1. Can I consider the interest

...

[donna]

Send in your photos and we'll judge the mouldest, dirtiest and downright horrific.

Okay, so this seems like a fun competition for the tenant occupants. So how about we designate a room that we will not air, and it's away from the sun so we have a really good contender. Do we win a prize...

[OnTheMove]

Dunedin which is barely 100k people and doesnt have that much employment has had its prices increase insanely. One property sold for $600k in 2016, is now asking $1.5m, which clearly they wont get, but even if they get $1m it is nuts. It is 1hr 20 from Dunedin. You can buy plenty of homes in Auck for...

[chcpharm]

How to invest my time and money?

To begin this I will give some background, I am in the fortunate position to have enough in my kiwi saver and in personal savings account to be able to apply for the full amount of a Kainga Ora first home grant in Christchurch city ($500,000 on 5% deposit)....

[rentalrunner]

trade me contacted me recently to say that they had determined i was reusing my rental listing to find new tenants and that this wasnt allowed. ive asked them to explain/verify what rules im breaking - obviously im not that keen on having to pay $200/300 every time i have to find a new tenant but trade...

[simongu]

Hi all,

Just wondering what experience others have had with the provided online heating assessment tool. I have run through this for 2 of my rentals so far, and have noticed that the defaulted R values seem rather conservative ie low. For example one of mine the living room is above the...

[jack2016]

I am asking on behalf of my American friends. They migrated to NZ and bought a house. Now they are un-migrating and moving back to the States but they want to keep their house and rent it out.

What's the best structure to rent out their house? The only 2 I could think of was keep in personal...

[cb14]

I have just purchased a rental. It doesn’t have floor insulation. Is there a timeframe for the floor insulation to be installed after we rent it? Or does the insulation have to be installed before we rent? Thanks in advance!

[skid]

Has anyone gotten a definition of just what ''enclosed'' actually means...we have 1 bungalow with wood covering sub floor area
the wood has 25mm gaps in between them and theres plenty of ventilation.....Its bone dry

Second bungalow has T&G around sub floor,,,there are no gaps...

[jack2016]

Hi with the new rental rules, is it possible to rent a property for say 9 months and 9 months only, and take it back for 3 months over the summer, and rinse repeat?

Thanks

[Andrew_R]

Hi All,

Wife and I are thinking about buying a new personal home, and retaining our existing personal home but changing its use to a rental - we own it freehold. We are thinking of establishing a jointly owned LTC which would buy our existing home off us, and would use new mortgage debt...

[Sandie]

I have had the same tenants in a rental property for six years. Some time back I said to them that they should have the venetian blind in the kitchen professionally cleaned for the reason that when trying to clean them myself, I bent the slats. When I suggested to the tenants recently that the blind...