Majority of Mum and Dad Landlords decent and honourable – Real Estate Pimps are not

ByMartyn Bradbury

Majority of landlords reject Government’s no-cause evictions

Though a majority of ‘mum and dad’ landlords oppose no-cause evictions, their return will be celebrated by the few large property investors who called for them

It’s the Real Estate Pimps who want the power to kick tenants out, not Mum and Dad Landlords.

We require new law cementing in long term tenancies with rent controls and the promotion of ‘ethical landlords’, people who refuse to squeeze every last drop of money out of their tenants for needless greed.

Ethical Landlords could be a new movement like the Living Wage movement.

They could agree to refuse allowing Property Managers to be involved because Property Mangers are maggots who only feed on pushing rents up.

Ethical Landlords would agree not to discriminate when renting homes out and Renters would respect the Landlord’s value in return for long leases.

Why not start up a movement – Aotearoa Ethical Landlord Union and promote Mum and Dad landlords who agree to limit rent rises and provide long term rentals and allow them to be the ones who can use the current tax loopholes while closing them for speculators and corporate landlords.

Our social inequality demands solutions, renters rights and affordable housing is part of that solution, the current propertied political class benefiting from our renting misery are the problem.

Ethical Landlords could be a means to that.

40% of us are renters, the economy is rigged in favour of the property owners, if we acted collectively we could use MMP to leverage vast new parameters.

 

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9 Comments

    1. This is nonsense. We don’t need an ‘Aotearoa Ethical Landlord Union’ to promote Mum and Dad landlords.
      What we do need is:
      1. Capital gains tax on every investment property.
      2. A law and mechanism for a mandatory warrant of fitness without which no dwelling may be tenanted.
      3. A mandatory fit-and-proper-person licence for every would-be property manager and landlord, without which they may not tenant any property they own or control.
      4. The Government to have the power and obligation to do any work required to bring a property up to tenantable standard, at the owner’s expense, and to seize any property whose owners and managers persistently fail to meet the required standards.
      5. A punitive tax on uninhabited homes.

      1. We need a government that will revive the state housing agency instead of wrecking it, and build, own, and manage 100,000, 200,000, 300,000 quality homes for secure, income-moderated, lifetime rent by all who want them.

  2. Without doubt there will be unintended consequences for those who step over the line … and truth be known the most vulnerable. But social workers have a pretty good idea of the consequences, so not really ‘unintended’. Call it collateral damage in order to protect the interests of the larger housing investors, those presumably members (or subscribers) of the Auckland Property Investors Association, not your garden gnome mum and dad investor. The original report is however a bit misleading, citing that 97 percent of ‘public submitters’ recommend the law stays in the past. Presumably the ‘public submitters’ are all mum and dad investors, not the general public with no rental properties, some of which are likely to be renters themselves or advocacy groups.

    But I do agree: better protection for renters are needed in NZ/ Aotearoa. The German model? Unlikely to happen since the housing market here, including rentals, acts as a de facto economy.

  4. I see the property managers as being an unnecessary expense who increase rents while treating those renting as slaves so anything that can reduce their involvement is a bonus. While the Ethical Landlord idea sounds good it would be nice to guarantee them an ethical Tennant as well because people who are doing a good thing should not have to suffer financially for it.
    What would be best is some sanity in house prices and supply that would enable almost all families to own their own home

  6. ‘Why not start up a movement’

    Why not have a major party with a major policy to run a State Advances Corporation with cheap loans and a target of 90 percent home ownership. Make NZ egalitarian again.

    If the land holdings of large property owners have to be broken up by govt decree so be it. It’s not like NZ govts haven’t had to do this in the past.

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