Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: A minor change to existing provisions! https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=346166#post346166 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=346166#post346166 with the admission they are simply telling stories ]]> Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:47:29 +1200 Moz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=346121#post346121 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=346121#post346121 We've just moved house, and the former landlady has announced that she wants to make deductions from our bond

Things I don't miss about renting #27 in a long list. I don't envy you that.

Does NZ have the semi-secret tenants database(s) that real estate agents maintain? In Oz the…

]]> Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:25:21 +1200 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345442#post345442 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345442#post345442 Of course, if it's taken three weeks to clean after we spent 18 hours on it, I'm surprised that she let us stay there for five years!

But in those five years fashions have changed, new colours for the season, new kitchen appliances, new carpets, everything up to and sometimes…

]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:50:36 +1200 Lucy Telfar Barnard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345441#post345441 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345441#post345441 Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:40:10 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345439#post345439 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345439#post345439 …the thick end of three weeks cleaning…
Which for some reason reminded me of this…
;- )
This is a job for…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3CCIiAx7Nw

]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:16:49 +1200 Matthew Poole https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345436#post345436 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345436#post345436 I’m afraid she can claim for cleaning costs when she’s done the cleaning herself, and there’s a set rate/hr the TT allows – but if she wants to do so, she needs to demonstrate that the property needed cleaning, so she’ll have to produce photographs showing it hadn’t been left… ]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2015 12:39:32 +1200 Lucy Telfar Barnard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345433#post345433 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345433#post345433 Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:29:16 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345431#post345431 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345431#post345431 Wed, 05 Aug 2015 10:57:23 +1200 Matthew Poole https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345430#post345430 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345430#post345430 I'd really like to see adjudicators able to rule that so long as a party to a hearing is mostly innocent in the matter, their names be left off the public Tenancy Tribunal (TT) documents. That won't help with the reference of course, but would help when landlords do TT… ]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:57:18 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345397#post345397 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345397#post345397 This is really great news.

That it is.

]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:34:40 +1200 Lucy Telfar Barnard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345381#post345381 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345381#post345381 There’s a clear reason to fear ever being discovered to have taken a landlord to the Tenancy Tribunal, lest it become a disadvantage when looking for somewhere else to live in future.

I agree entirely. I'd really like to see adjudicators able to rule that so long as a party…

]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2015 09:37:01 +1200 Lucy Telfar Barnard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345380#post345380 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345380#post345380 Yay, Eli! *waves*

It's lovely to see the cabinet papers referencing the Housing Improvement Regulations 1947 as a living document.

Part 1 of the regulations are all good, if delightfully antiquated (regular mention of the privy, or the understandable but now outdated assumption in Clause 6 that a fireplace and…

]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2015 09:34:25 +1200 izogi https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345378#post345378 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345378#post345378 and if they have the confidence and the time and the energy, they go to the Tenancy Tribunal

The confidence and the time and the energy is also a huge thing to need when this is a situation in which tenants often rely crucially on former landlords providing good references.…

]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2015 09:26:20 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345377#post345377 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-minor-change-to-existing-provisions/?p=345377#post345377 Discussion from blog post.

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