Who is arsehole enough to cause extra stress during a pandemic?
Why Scum Landlords…
Coronavirus: Tenants told 14-day notices sent if rent not paid
As the country prepares for a lockdown, property managers have been telling tenants that they must pay rent or likely receive a 14-day notice – something a renters’ group says is “tone deaf”.
In Wellington, property management group Quinovic earlier this week told its tenants that notices will be sent if they do not pay in time.
Down south, renters in Christchurch were told in a letter by Prestige Property Management Limited that rent was still due as usual and the company emphasised it had a “zero rent arrears policy”.
…threatening to throw renters out onto the street during a pandemic is despicable.
The Rent freeze means no rent can go up during lockdown and tenants can only be kicked out if Rents are 60 days late yet here we have scum Landlords wanting blood out of a pandemic stone.
The very first thing that needs to happen the second this pandemic lockdown is over are draconian new laws punishing scum Landlords.
We urgently need more rules and protections to Renters, look at what Scum Landlords are prepared to do at a time when Renters are most vulnerable, these Scum Landlords would throw their fellow citizens onto the streets in the middle of pandemic for fucks sake, so we should show them no mercy once this pandemic has passed.
We must crush this virus and Scum Landlords.
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The good news (Sarcasm) is that business is more than ready to take over the rentals with double the rents to taxpayers/tenants in compass style accomodation https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018695582/social-housing-complex-tenants-feel-bullied-by-operator and 1 room motel rooms for families https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/110696830/government-to-perform-stocktake-of-emergency-housing-in-wake-of-auckland-rat-hole-motel-revealtions?rm=a. That is the bright future!
So encourage those on a UBI and accomodation benefits whose benefit is provided to pay rent, not to pay rent, and then enjoy what the state has to offer! Sarcasm.
When will the penny drop and the left work out the state is certainly not providing many state houses as we used to know them – state housing has somehow been given away to ‘social housing providers’ https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/93889766/three-groups-shortlisted-take-over-social-housing-in-christchurch and I didn’t see the rental advocates doing much about it.
Renters get a much worse deal when the state housing goes into quasi private hands, as well as the state paying more for the privilege. Under National and Labour/Greens state houses are being spirited away into private/quasi private non transparent operators for next to nothing scenario.
Remember as well as providing a service for poorer folks, traditional state houses were cheaper and also made a profit for Housing NZ. The new neoliberal way is to give away the state housing for next to nothing to quasi business and then pay millions for the rising poor to live somewhere.
What a great result for business and neoliberalism!
Funny though instead of business being more efficient, as business takes over state/social housing, there seems to be a worsening of the housing situation with more homelessness and worse living conditions for many (how many kids will die when a family gets Covid-19 crammed together in their ‘warm, dry’ 1 room accomodation or get beaten to death with family violence).
I also didn’t notice much lobbying for social and state housing to get their health homes upgraded quickly – they lag years behind the private rentals. But not a peep out of the rental rights!
The state/social housing upgrades may never happen if the government does not get back in either, so the government gets to pretend to help the renters, the left blogs reduce the private rental stock by advocating against private rentals and their ‘scum’ landlords and the end result is a massive sell off of state housing and private rentals (already happening under the Natz and guise of Kiwibuild) https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/93889766/three-groups-shortlisted-take-over-social-housing-in-christchurch as the cost of upgrading the state housing to woke standards is realised and surprise, surprise, private operators get ‘given’ the houses.
You just need to put ‘charitable trust’ or ‘Kiwibuild’ on it to get free state housing for next to nothing!!! Grenfell management style works a treat! NOT!
I hope all those tenants who received such notices are forwarding them on to the tenancy tribunal, and that these parasitic middlemen are prosecuted for every such notice they sent.
There are scum landlords and scum tenants. There are scum bosses and lazy workers. However in all cases these are in the minority and once the crisis is over I hope the bad firms like Burger King are outed and not supported . The State cannot be relied on to house all those that want to rent . There are plenty of people whose live style is such that they do not want to own a house so there is a need for rentals. Why is it those on the very Left seem to treat those that want to work hard and get ahead as the enemy and feel all have a right to be supported by the state irrespective of their circumstances.
The State should be there to support those that are unable to work through physical or mental health to a far greater extent not at the current low level .
Unfortunately “state” (i.e. the previous National government) flooded the country with a million new immigrants in nine years without building any new houses for them to live in. This caused a housing crisis in New Zealand.
Now the “state” (i.e the current Labour government) has to shoulder the responsibility of housing all the people affected by the country’s current chronic housing shortage.
Suggest you post this effort over at the “comfortably retired with an extra rental” Standard and see how today’s “left” react 🙂
I’m going to come out and say it. I am proud to be a property manager and a rental property owner. I’ll probably get some abuse for saying that. However, I believe we as a company are fair on tenants and owners alike when sorting out problems that arise. Yes there are scummy landlords and scummy tenants around and we try to stick clear of both of these.
There have been a few stories of idiotic landlords trying to take advantage of the situation. Frankly these people are idiots.
Do you want a medal?
The State should be the only renter in Aotearoa, they should own all the ‘spare’ housing stock for letting to buy primarily.
Oh dear is this communism!
Have you seen the state of repair some of the State houses are in . I live in Chch and used to teach people to cook in their own home many of the state houses in Aranui were very run down with poor stoves and cold . Unfortunately they are terrible landlords and do not care as they know the tenants cannot afford a better place. A private landlord would never get away with what I have seen.
And weirdly the healthy housing does not apply to state and socials housing until years after the private rentals. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
When COL got in after obsessing about rental standards for a decade, wouldn’t the first thing they do apply the standards to their own state housing and social housing and state housing boarding houses? The very strange thing, is that they have not, and it does not come in until their term is over 2023. Private rentals on the other hand need to be completed by 2021.
So the state housing tenants and businesses running under ‘social housing’ umbrella, don’t have to comply at the same time to healthy homes while having the most vulnerable living in them and the government is not spending their resources on this in their first term in government in nearly a decade.
Something is very wrong with that picture and the lefty commentators letting them get away with it.
Yeah people who buy up property for ‘investment’ would be the equivalent of the people who buy all the toilet paper haha
jane – False equivalence. Toilet paper is a diminishing investment; property is expected to increase in value.
Having experienced a toilet paper shortage elsewhere, I added it to my emergency kit when Valenzuela had a toilet paper shortage two or three years ago, and added to my supply fairly rapidly this time.
Mothers having to wipe children’s bottoms with foliage – seasonally diminishing foliage- have my sympathy – as do rest home carers et al. I have learnt to live without heating, but winter poohing in the garden is a bit of a big ask.
The thing is, the pollies have told us that there’s plenty of everything, which is not so. There ain’t no bread around here – not for days, as far as I know. But if any shortages are due to logistical problems, then I’m not going to be criticising politicians for that – yet. They are dealing with a world forever changed.
And all government has done is prevent landlords from turfing out tenants before they are two months behind on rent.
Given those losing income and or jobs will struggle to pay 50% rent – this means in 4 months they are two months behind and liable for termination. Good luck with re-election in that environment.
The government should legislate for a maximum rent liability for those losing jobs and or income of 50%. Then those really struggling could pay the 25% level of the former rent (state housing) for the duration – then it would take 8 months before they were two months behind. And others might just manage the 50% of former rent.
We still want money circulating around the economy just more of it to 80% of tax payers than would go to the banks.
Those on the left seem to have this idea of all being equal and we all have equal shares in what the country has to offer. In a perfect world this might be true but human nature divides us up . Some are clever some sporty some lazy some musical and so on. These talents are what divides us and taxes help distribute wealth so all survive but no system can make us equal communism tried and failed.Capitalism is not perfect but under its reign more people are fed and more live longer than at any time in history.
LANDLORDS COMMERCIAL THAT IS — THE COMMERCIAL TENANT STOPS PAYING HIS RENT HE AGREED TO IN HIS LEASE. THE LANDLORD NOW CANT PAY HIS MORTGAGE- RATES- WATER -BODY CORP-HIS COMMITMENTS —- WITH NO INCOME-not government supported like others- HE CANT PAY HIS RATES -MORTAGE ETC AT HIS HOME EITHER
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