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Tag - Landlord
If I had a dollar for every time a landlord says, ‘I charge my tenants cheap rent because they are good tenants,’ I would be a wealthy man. As if anyone less...
Termination is not a get-out-of-jail card for HHS If you plan to rent out your property for as long as possible without meeting the Healthy Homes Standards...
New HHS compliance timeframe announced This morning the government announced an extension to the Healthy Homes Standards (HHS) compliance deadline for all...
What a letdown it is to see yet another biased ‘reporting’ against landlords. This time by the vaunted Fair Go. On Monday 10th October, it...
Earlier this month, the government announced its intention to grant institutional build-to-rent investors an outright exemption to the interest limitation...
A question from Shealy (paraphrased here to suit the format) : I self-manage my tenancy. My property sprung a leak following a storm in late March this year...
We received this question from anonymous and paraphrased it below to suit this format: My three-year fixed-term tenancy ends on 23rd January 2023. I want the...
The following are excerpts from Kristin Sutherland’s report to the Auckland Property Investors’ Association 2022 Annual General Meeting. What a...
This question is from Jess (paraphrased to suit this format): There are two tenants on my fixed-term tenancy that will soon be rolled over into periodic...
By popular request – a reproduction of Stefan Nikolic’s talking points at his recent webinar The future of short-term rentals – challenges...
The following answers reflect our current understanding of rental business operation under the COVID-19 Protection Framework. In putting these answers...
This question is from Alan (paraphrased to suit this format): What are the rules for hosting open homes under the traffic lights? What can I ask tenants to do...
This question is from Mark (paraphrased to suit this format): The Ministry of Justice has advised that its bailiffs will not be enforcing my possession order...
This question is from Anna (paraphrased to suit this format): (To a landlord who leases his property to social housing agencies) Do you disclose to your...
This question is from Coral (paraphrased to suit this format): I instructed my property manager to renew a fixed-term tenancy and increase rent by $15 a week...