Originally posted by Perry
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I was speaking generally. The act of removing a lot
of what you describe as 'student hovels' will reduce
the market pool. That will put pressure on prices.
Supply and demand at work, with the usual govt.
meddling pushing it all along to howls of dismay
from all the sitting pretty social engineers, et al.
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they arnt affordable now, if it wasnt for the students most of the old dumps wouldnt be able to be rented at all, no family would ever rent a falling down old pile of poos for $700 a week
Jimo how about you provide affordable housing for students, you can lead the charge...
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Originally posted by gavinc View PostI 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.
I think there has been discussion on this before but every
property should meet some minimum standard of healthiness
(ie not kill the tenant) but after that it is horses for courses.
Some people don't have much money so they can't expect
to rent a 'flash' place for that.
If you were to up the standard too much (all houses with
full insulation, heating, sun and breakfast in bed) then either
the rents go up too much or the house are sold to a private
buyer and removed from the rental pool.
At the end of the day you can't expect a private individual to
subsidise the tenant any more than they do now.
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Originally posted by Wayne View PostIf you were to up the standard too much (all houses with
full insulation, heating, sun and breakfast in bed) then either
the rents go up too much or the house are sold to a private
buyer and removed from the rental pool.
a housing affordability crisis, remember.
Originally posted by NovInvestor View PostQuestion is who is going to enforce it and how to enforce it?
Inspecting every property available for rent to make sure the
place is compliant is a huge task.
past. Amend the RTA to make it illegal to rent anything that
does not have a RWoF and force all LLs to get one from said
gummint and pay the gummint for it, too, of course. Annual
renewal fees, administration fees, inspection fees - all with
GST added, of course. Blenglish will be rubbing his grubby
maulers together with gleeful anticipation. But . . .
Probably more a socialist-type gummint thing than the gnats.
But the gnats probably wouldn't reverse it, afterwards. Just
say they would, while in opposition, as an election ploy.
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Originally posted by NovInvestor View Postquestion is who is going to enforce it?
and how to enforce it? inspecting every property available for rent to make sure the place is compliant is a huge task.
Just like they do with commercials a building warrent of fittness every year $$$ + GST
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Originally posted by Maccachic View PostJust like they do with commercials a building warrent of fittness every year $$$ + GST
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