PHOTO: A landlord has been ordered to pay his tenants $2700 after failing to install insulation in their rental property by July 1 (file photo).
A landlord who “ignored” the July 1 deadline to insulate rental properties must pay his tenants $2700 in damages.
The Tenancy Tribunal found Dean Spense only organised for insulation to be installed in his central Auckland house for $900 per week in early August.
The case was one of more than 200 applications about alleged breaches of insulation regulations by landlords received and assessed by Tenancy Services in July and August.
According to the tribunal’s decision, Spense’s property manager at In Property Limited had tried to get Spense to arrange for insulation to be installed since March 2018 and had provided him with a quote for the work.
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