Warrant of Fitness for rentals (including details)

[Nice]

Me too, and nobody has asked me.

This is local NZPIF group reacting to the dismal failure of the WCC effort.

[Perry]

But is the proposal not just a de facto buy in to the present anti-LL sentiments?

I.e. It's still the same iced dream, but vanilla rather than strawberry flavoured?

[hotwired]

I live in Central Maine and have seen that the majority of apartments are run down, "you're seriously going to rent that with a straight face" type of units ... but I too question the need for more bureucracy. We have a "landlord registry" tyring to form here whereby we pay $50-$100 per unit (a month's earnings for the typical single family rental home) to pay for more inspectors. We already have inspectors, section 8 inspectors, and the fire department. Simply "upping the bar" a little (i.e. you have to take $100 off the rent if you use off white paint and blue commercial carpet, haha!)

[klauster]

Tenants will be the losers. All around.

Yes, unfortunately, it doesn’t look rosy for renters in term of costs imposed by upcoming changes, availability of rentals and a tougher screening process.

[Don't believe the Hype]

A while ago, I recall a proposal for CRAs to be able to report on timeliness of bill payments, rather than just on defaults. Anyone else remember that? If so, did it happen?

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CRA = credit reporting agency

this has just been implemented in Australia - they've packaged it up as positive credit reporting. Suggesting that applying for credit is a negative event and reporting on time payments as a positive for the individual who has the credit. They don't seem to mention the negative impact of reporting late payment of bills.