PHOTO: Mandy Bedingfield outside her rural Carterton property. PHOTO/KAREN COLTMAN
Thousands of dollars owed in rent
Landlord: ‘I have no rights’
By the time of Mandy Bedingfield’s Tenancy Tribunal hearing date of March 20, her tenants will owe her about $9000 for their rental of her two-bedroom home on a seven-acre block in Carterton.
In January, Bedingfield applied to the tribunal to have the tenancy ended because the rent was more than $5000 behind.
She gave the tenants 90-days’ notice to leave, which is April 4.
She said the tenants stopped paying rent in December after only being there since June.
She wrote to them many times giving them the chance to pay the rental arrears as she is legally required to do, but they didn’t.
But arrears weren’t the only reason she was unhappy.
She said the tenants breached the tenancy agreement by having a third dog on the property instead of two, and four horses instead of the one agreed.
She said over-grazing had wrecked pasture and the dogs had damaged the inside of the house.
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