PHOTO: JIM RICE A tenant has been awarded $9280 in compensation and damages by the Tenancy Tribunal after his landlord failed to repair a hole in a bedroom floor of a house he rented for two years.
A tenant has been awarded $9280 in compensation and damages by the Tenancy Tribunal after his landlord failed to repair a hole in a bedroom floor of the house he rented for two years.
The tenant, Philip John Douglas Templeton-Knight, claimed the hole in the floor of the main bedroom of the two-bedroom cottage in Dairy Flat, north Auckland, was big enough for his cat to crawl through from underneath the house, according to the tribunal decision.
Photos he presented at the tribunal hearing showed there were myriad other health and safety issues at the property – a ranch slider door in the main bedroom had never closed properly, windows were missing latches and could be opened from the outside and live wiring was exposed in two places.
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