Painting an old property while you've got tenants is risky

[donna]

The landlord takes the tenants to the Tenancy Tribunal for $7000; however, the tenants come out on top and are awarded $10000. But the story is much more interesting and a HUGE warning to LLs with older properties....

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The short of the story -

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[One]

Hi everyone

My partner rented his house out this year for the first time and it got taken over by ants. There'd never been a problem with ants in the house before - there were ants outside but never inside. He's had professional exterminators in multiple times but it seems they've taken...

[donna]

In Kapiti, a Landlord of a commercial storage unit with an office made a really dumb decision that ended up costing him $$ thousands.

Renting his windowless commercial property as a residential tenancy to a man and his very young child was not doing them a favour and it was illegal. ...

[SPQR06]

Does anyone have recent experience of this process? We had a tenant with a large amount of rental arrears and the property manager eventually got a tenancy tribunal order in our favour for a private payment plan which was due to start in mid-June (with the monetary repayments specified). The tenant...

[donna]

Hi All,

The title looks like it's the start of a joke - but it's not. I've read about tenants submitting applications to TT claiming their rental is unlawful.

1. How would they know for sure unless it is unsanitary or unsafe?
2. Are there clear rules around lawful...

[Perry]

Ody's 10-month odyssey: Renter reunited with cat after timely Tenancy Tribunal intervention
1 Oct 2022



Bloody hell!!...

[Angela1]

My friend is signed on as a guarantor on their adult daughters tenancy agreement. (definitely not signed on as a tenant). She pays every week to the landlord either a top up payment or the full rent (not sure) to help her daughter.
She has been there 4 months now, they never got any paperwork...

[nsteveinz]

I recently had a failed Tenancy Tribunal hearing as the tenant paid up the arrears at the last minute. The tenant was a no-show, and the adjudicator and I discussed resubmitting to end the tenancy, as I have other grounds. However, the following occurred which is disturbing.

The adjudicator...

[Perry]

Data and statistics related to our regulatory activities and the New Zealand rental market.

Dispute Resolution statistics

Every quarter, Tenancy Services publishes a high-level summary of the volume of dispute resolution applications received, and the types of disputes detailed...

[Learning]

This will throw the pigeons amongst the cats - the new reforms include:

"A party who is successful in the Tenancy Tribunal can have their identifying details removed from the Tribunal’s decision."

All these fearful tenants cowering in their illegally constructed,...

[Perry]

I suppose a moot point is that the prefix "tri-" means three - as in a tricycle. There's only one adjudicator, so it should really be called a Unobunal. I doubt there'd be much enthusiasm for that, even though it would be numerically correct. Ah, well . . .

Interesting item at...

[Winston001]

I have read that 80% of Tribunal applications are from Landlords. But having searched the Tribunal data there is nothing I could find to back that up.

Instead almost every link and the data itself refers to Tenants claims and wrongful Landlords.

Any help?

[Eddee]

Hi,
Despite diligently checking references and referees for our current tenants (who are on a 12 month fixed lease) they have turned out to be a nightmare.
We have a tenancy tribunal date set in 3 weeks time and I'm wanting some advice if anyone can help.

Some background...

[Lodestar]

I have been awarded damages and outstanding rental by TT and now the payment is paid by WINZ. My Property Manager has given to the Debts Collector to collect from WINZ and the Debts Collector charged a fee for it. They paid to my Property Manager and he charged a commission for it before banking into...

[Hari]

Our tenants wanted to have a dog after their tenancy started, and we agreed as long as they signed a 'Dog Clause' (which they did) which included 'The tenant must compensate the landlord for any damage or repairs due to the dog at the end of the tenancy'.

When the tenants ended the tenancy...