Warrant of Fitness for rentals (including details)

[Wayne]

riddler maybe but sure as heck aint the Joker

We only have your word on that :-)

[eri]

my mother has had the ceiling of her drafty old, high stud bungalow insulated for years

a few months ago she got the subsidy for underfloor insulation

great, but the wind still howls through and around the warped and poorly fitted wooden windows and doors

you can see daylight through them in many places...

so what's the solution? rip out all wood and replace with double-glazed windows and new doors?, may as well rip off the kauri weatherboards and fill the walls? or would it be better to simply hammer up 2x2 battens inside all exterior walls, fill with foam sheet and then repanel???

what's that likely to be worth all up $100,000?

and it would still have a shocking bathroom and kitchen...

[Bob Kane]

The golden years of dumpster post baby boom inheritance free bees are over.....

Watch this space , better start doing up your dumpster now before you get stung by the reality Wasp

Love it.
A stupid doomer.
This could be fun.

in case you haunt already noticed in this country , we have a sick case of the haves and have nots, and a monopoly in the housing sector coupled with a lack of new builds has created a dynamic of limited supply and over priced dumpsters.......

The tide is about to change,

Oh yeah?
How?
Looks to me like the supply is getting shorter and the demand is getting larger.
Or is that what you're rejoicing about?

[Davo36]

I didnt get the memo on caring for others feelings, is this required for a landlord ?

This guy's a troll too.

So many idiots posting here just now.

[Glizzle]

This guy's a troll too.

So many idiots posting here just now.

So your in the business of bending over for every need of your clients by having your hand forced? I bet not, i know my market i know what im going after and i know what makes money, no need to tell me whats required in MY houses. The basis of my comment was that more or less this would effect housing nz more then any other landlord, why would the govt push forward with that, its fairy tale thinking.

[Wayne]

The housing minister has already said that they are waiting until Housing NZ get their act together (insulation) before they push private LL's any more.

[WaltNZ]

the tables are turning....

Insurance Companies will eventually force the Govt to have it up to a legal standards, as well as ACC.....

The days of making honey out of goat shite are over

[Maccachic]

The days of making honey out of goat shite are over

Gee you know how to offend people.

[Bob Kane]

the tables are turning....

Insurance Companies will eventually force the Govt to have it up to a legal standards, as well as ACC.....

The days of making honey out of goat shite are over

In your dreams...

[Wayne]

The days of making honey out of goat shite are over

while those that make hay out of goat shite will deserve what they get the rest of us (the majority) will keep on providing needed, value accomodation at a competative price.

Not that I agree that the Insurance Companies will force the Govt to do anything - they don't care, not their business.....

[Perry]

Minimum Standards For Rentals Considered

Now here's something that should boost rent costs for the very
people it is supposed to help! Maybe it will only apply - at least
initially - to WINZ-supported tenants?

Minimum Standards For Rentals Considered
Catherine Harris
07/03/2013

Housing Minister Nick Smith has asked officials to do some initial
groundwork on a warrant of fitness for all rental properties. However,
the minister has stressed that if such a policy was rolled out, state
housing should be brought up to standard first. A spokesman for Smith
said the first priority would be to settle on what a minimum standard
would be. "They'd obviously need to address the state housing sector
first, and then if they feel comfortable with that, they would then
look into the private sector where there's government subsidies being
paid towards the tenants who are in these homes," he said.

[gavinc]

<Maybe it will only apply - at least initially - to WINZ-supported tenants?>
Oh Perry you are so wrong- it is not WINZ supported tenants but Taxpayer supported tenants.
Many many years ago I had a flat which was rented to a Taxpayer supported tenant- I used to console myself that when ever I encountered a problem with said tenant that at least the tax I was paying was going full circle!
As to the storey re WOF for rentals yes f it ever eventuates yet another layer of meddling in our daily lives and more expensive rents for the poor tenant.
I do agree that there should be good quality rentals and I think most of us have those but the olda adage 'buyer beware" could equally apply to renter beware - if they are not happy just move somewhere else.

[Perry]

Right. As you'd guess, I know that WINZ is not
funded from Shonkey's blind Trust. But you're
right to pull me up on that, ahhh, 'oversight.'

[jimO]

that would cull out 70% of Dunedin student hovels

[Perry]

And nudge housing affordability
as they go.