PHOTO: ROBERT KITCHIN/STUFF The inner-city location of this Manners St apartment is great for transport but dodgy at night, said its tenants.
Each week, Rooms to Rent reporter Mikaela Wilkes talks to Kiwi renters about what they get for their money.
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Kahli Balle and her four flatmates are moving out of their Manners St apartment before its lease ends.
The second-year Victoria University students met in the halls. This was Balle’s first flat, where she paid $220 per week before expenses for one of the converted office’s biggest bedrooms.
The academic year ends in November, but one-year leases don’t typically changeover until January.
This forces non-Wellingtonian students to choose between taking a lease on early, and funding it, “even though they’re not living there until February,” or to risk starting the next semester without a place to live.
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