PHOTO: DAVID UNWIN/STUFF Vanessa Woodhead is relieved to be in her own house. She went through two Tenancy Tribunal cases in a year of hell at her previous flat.
As the screws tighten on landlords, cavalier property managers continue to play by their own rules, warns a tenant twice found to have been mistreated.
New measures being introduced by the Government, and revealed by Stuff on Sunday, aim to give tenants more rights and restrict landlords’ grounds for eviction, but there is often a third party who plays a crucial role in the relationship.
Vanessa Woodhead has won two Tenancy Tribunal cases this year over her lease of a flat in Palmerston North. Both times, a property manager was found at fault.
She says a lack of regulation means there’s little incentive for bad property managers to change their behaviour.
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