Back in October last year I started a thread "Vendor's (Landlord's) Warranties on Conditions of Sale of Real Estate by Auction", and received a mine of valuable advice from a number of posters. I mention this in case anyone wants background info to our situation.
Basically we've had no joy whatsoever in getting Mr & Mrs Landlord to install the heating and bedroom doors they agreed to provide when we signed our fixed term tenancy agreement in February 2012. They've also failed to lodge our bond with the Bond Centre. The tenancy runs until February 2014, and we issued them with a 14 day notice to rectify these issues last October. Nothing (apart from a wee bit of nastiness) happened.
On March 7 this year we applied to the Tenancy Tribunal to resolve things once and for all. They sent us notification of TT Hearing on May 9th, no mention of mediation - just straight to a hearing. It's been a long two months of waiting, with absolutely no contact from our Landlords.
The notification email we received states the reasons for the hearing as:
109 - Exemplary Damages
19, 109 - Bond Not Lodged
38(1), 38(2) - Quiet Enjoyment
78(1)(e), 45 - Work Order
66 - Reduction of Fixed Term Tenancy
77(1), 78(1)(h) - Other Miscellaneous Orders
I'm mentally and physically prepared for this weeks hearing. All evidence assembled in triplicate, bullet pointed, logically ordered and probably in all honesty detailed to point of appearing totally anal.
It's roughly a one hour drive for us to get to the Queenstown District Court where the hearing will take place, and roughly two and a half hours drive for the landlords (who have incidently separated and rumoured to be no longer speaking to each other).
Based on posters experience/knowledge, what is likely to happen if neither of the landlords show up? I'm dreading the possibility of the hearing being postponed - never thought my husband and I would ever find ourselves in this situation and don't want things to drag out through another cold winter. Before the TT website disappeared I read plenty of hearing decisions that were made despite 'no shows' by the tenants, but I couldn't find any where the shoe was on the other foot.
Any suggestions?
Many thanks.
Basically we've had no joy whatsoever in getting Mr & Mrs Landlord to install the heating and bedroom doors they agreed to provide when we signed our fixed term tenancy agreement in February 2012. They've also failed to lodge our bond with the Bond Centre. The tenancy runs until February 2014, and we issued them with a 14 day notice to rectify these issues last October. Nothing (apart from a wee bit of nastiness) happened.
On March 7 this year we applied to the Tenancy Tribunal to resolve things once and for all. They sent us notification of TT Hearing on May 9th, no mention of mediation - just straight to a hearing. It's been a long two months of waiting, with absolutely no contact from our Landlords.
The notification email we received states the reasons for the hearing as:
109 - Exemplary Damages
19, 109 - Bond Not Lodged
38(1), 38(2) - Quiet Enjoyment
78(1)(e), 45 - Work Order
66 - Reduction of Fixed Term Tenancy
77(1), 78(1)(h) - Other Miscellaneous Orders
I'm mentally and physically prepared for this weeks hearing. All evidence assembled in triplicate, bullet pointed, logically ordered and probably in all honesty detailed to point of appearing totally anal.
It's roughly a one hour drive for us to get to the Queenstown District Court where the hearing will take place, and roughly two and a half hours drive for the landlords (who have incidently separated and rumoured to be no longer speaking to each other).
Based on posters experience/knowledge, what is likely to happen if neither of the landlords show up? I'm dreading the possibility of the hearing being postponed - never thought my husband and I would ever find ourselves in this situation and don't want things to drag out through another cold winter. Before the TT website disappeared I read plenty of hearing decisions that were made despite 'no shows' by the tenants, but I couldn't find any where the shoe was on the other foot.
Any suggestions?
Many thanks.
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