PHOTO: DAVID WHITE/STUFF Ian Dunn at his now renovated home in Whangarei. He says he would never be so trusting again.
Retired All Black Ian Dunn still drinks in the same pub as his former friends, real estate agents Ian Fairley, Keith ‘Chuck’ Norris and Gary ‘Banzai’ Boucher. But now they sit at opposite ends of the bar.
Dunn is suing Boucher and Tait Realty, the company the trio worked for, claiming they knowingly sold him a leaky home that so far has cost him $260,000 in repairs and another $40,000 in legal bills.
Dunn’s claim
Dunn, who won three test caps in 1983, admits not doing much research when he bought Boucher’s own house eight years ago because he knew the men well.
He co-owned race horses with Tait boss Fairley, and drank with them all at the pub he part owned, the Jovial Judge – which was two doors away from the Team Tait offices in Walton St, central Whangarei.
Boucher, a real estate agent of eight years whose promotional material says that “as a result of his honesty and integrity has been very successful” had also sold Dunn his previous house.
Dunn got a knockdown deal: Boucher had tried to sell the house himself for $600,000 two years earlier. When he had no luck, he enlisted Norris as his agent, who sold it to Dunn for just $420,000 in late 2011.
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