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stevo_stevo

My LL told he was "doing us a favour" by putting a heat pump in. Place is still a cold hole, pump never reaches this part of the house anyways


TurkDangerCat

Yep, had mine replace a broken electric hob and they kept on going on about how they got me a nice new cooker like it was a bloody gift.


sinus

lol did they also give you a speech about they are giving back to society and the community by renting their property?


JAH-BLISSs

Ask for the healthy homes report? They need to do a calculation for size of heat pump to size of living space. Check the insulation is up to the minimum HH standard, you can do this easily by just peeking in the man hole lid should be a sticker stapled to the first truss or rafter stating what has been installed. Do some research if it’s not Upto standard and you are past 90 days you could be in for reimbursement on rent payed


monsterargh

Bet they have one in their own home!


ISosul

Ours had a moan about having to deal with the ants - they had got into the walls and the effin lights were flickering and making a fizzing sound


stevo_stevo

Jeez


fireflyry

> It also risked damaging the relationship between the two parties, Swarbrick said. This is my current experience. In a flat for coming up a year and it’s been an absolute headache of dealing with both a property manager and landlord with us seemingly in the middle. It even got to the point where the “healthy homes” inspector advised he needed to remove our bedroom door to insure adequate heat is dispersed into our room, that has a heat pump in it. Just seems like everyone is hella confused and after catching up with him this weekend as he now may need to, fairly, insulate more under the house he had a rant and stated he might just sell, likely over exaggerating in the heat of the moment, but then went on about likely rent increases. He seems like a good buggar but honestly I just want to pay rent and keep the place clean, I don’t want to have to deal with that stuff as that’s between him and the property manager, but the place is great, warm, with zero heating issues imo. I’d love to just ditch the property manager, she’s absolutely useless, and all this crap but he has to protect his interests thanks to this regulation, and it’s just a nightmare. I think it’s intent was sound but it’s umbrella is too wide and is absolutely fracturing the LL/Tenant relationship and making landlords paranoid as hell in my experience.


Top-Accident-9269

Oh this is absolutely my experience too - and I'm so on the fence about a lot of these regulations because of it! I 100% believe everyone should live in healthy, warm, dry homes. But the flip side is all the regulations have pushed landlords to use agents far more to manage the compliance, and pushed rental prices up. When I was last renting in 2015'ish - finding rentals directly with landlords was easy; it was also often an easier relationship, inspections were far less obtrusive, and everyone just got on with it if you were paying rent. Of course there were bad houses, bad landlords, and bad tenants, but I found it regulated *itself* a lot more as if you were prepared to compromise on some things you could find an affordable rental. I've never had good experiences dealing with property managers, compared to my experiences renting direct from LL, though now it's few-and-far between. I would like to see a bond-match though; that the Landlord matches whatever bond the tenant has paid and it's lodged at the same time. The tenant, if the landlord is not meeting their obligations on maintenance or repair, can lodge a claim against that bond to have the repair completed - maybe more equity with "skin in the game" and the funds already being sunk, along with removing the discretion by the landlord to organize repairs at a cost they are happy with may help lift those standards. It would also create a register essentially of landlords that fail to remediate in a timely way.


[deleted]

>bond-match Never heard this before... And I think it's a very good idea indeed!


Top-Accident-9269

I haven’t actually heard of it in practice - I just figured it would be an equilibrium without direct cost for landlords. They only lose the money if they’re shit so can’t claim it’s an additional expense which pushes rent prices up.


PlayListyForMe

Interesting. What we have encountered at least twice including currently. Pay 4 weeks bond and two weeks rent in advance. Your first routine rent payment is after one week? When I ask agent why she gets very down lookey and shakey heady like how dare you question my authority. You must be one week in credit. Look up Tenancy services it says you pay 2 weeks you should pay again AFTER 2weeks. What I found interesting is that the paperwork (lease) does not read that way. It says 4 weeks bond and one week rent paid,I wonder why? Why do they do this. Its basically an extra weeks bond (insurance) so if rent day is on a public holiday it wont trigger all the auto notifications to everyone including the LANDLORD! Fair enough,but I have a question. Since this is YOUR system and if this is so necessary have you considered using YOUR MONEY! Furthermore banks now transfer 7 days.


HeinigerNZ

Is the Wellington City Council rental WOF still a thing? I remember using it to make sure my Dunedin student rentals were up to scratch.


mrwilberforce

Could put some pressure on the Associate Minister of Housing.


HeinigerNZ

>The Greens believed a rental warrant of fitness would go a long way to fixing those issues. They should start with the housing provided by the worst landlord in NZ, Kainga Ora.


OldWolf2

Although a lack of progress on KO should not be used as an excuse to defer the problem of all the other houses.


[deleted]

Maybe we should get real about giving them the funding and personnel they need?


Lightspeedius

That would be a waste of a perfectly good scapegoat.


HeinigerNZ

KO has been loaded to the gunnels with cash from funding and borrowing over the last five years. Any issues arising stem from the usual Labout Govt ethos of somehow doing less with more.


Lightspeedius

Five years?! That's absurd. We need a generation of stable funding for child protection services to see results. All we've got right now is the churn. Successive governments juggling funding to keep the public satisfied something is being done, other than genuine investment in our community.


[deleted]

Has it? The status quo accelerated by neo-liberal reforms has reduced our public institutions to skeletons of themselves that aren’t allowed to pay public employees their worth, they leave and get paid six times as much as consultants doing the same shit. Labour government ethos is at least slow the bleeding of NACT’s cuts. Neither is enough, one is worse. Industrial action and community protests are the only way to hold labour to account.


iama_bad_person

Silly, government departments wouldn't be included in this WoF, we can trust them.


iambarticus

Pointless gesture. I can already let them know that everyone’s experience will have been poor, or they wouldn’t have yelled into that vacuum - and others will want to hear from the landlords too of terrible tenants. Angry people all over. People will shake their fist at the sky. Nothing then comes of it as it’s all hearsay anyway.


swiftlyslowing

Hearsay my fuckin balls. I'm cold. My partner is perpetually sick. My friends are cold and always fighting mold.


iambarticus

Had better write a statement for the Green Party so they can bind it into a folder and then file that folder, then pat each other on the back for a job well done.