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According to STUFF the Tenancy Tribunal has dismissed a landlord’s request to evict her tenants, despite them being $62,238.90 behind in their rent.
The tenants will pay the debt off at $30 a week until 2063.
According to a recently released Tenancy Tribunal decision, landlord S Yu wanted the tenants out of her property in Bayview on Auckland’s North Shore because of their huge rent arrears.
However, tenants Terrence Lawton and Suchanan Senahan wished to pay their debts to avoid losing their home.
They also owed $1084.99 in water bills, bringing the total debt to $63,344.33.
Adjudicator Jane Northwood ruled the tenancy should continue, so long as the tenants pay off their debt off at $30 per week, on top of their weekly rent of $640.
At this rate, the debt will be paid off by September 2063, or after 2111 weekly payments taking 40 years and five months.
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