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tishy 
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 Posted: 17 November 2009 at 1:00pm |
We live in a rental. The landlady wanted to paint the inside before we moved in but we told her not to bother what with 2 toddlers 
Thankfully she lives in Auckland so we never see her. She is great if we need anything done.
We own a rental in Ireland which we've been mostly lucky with out tenants. We had one family who's kid got at the hallway walls with a crayon. We saw this at a house inspection but the tenants commented on it and said that they would get it painted before they ever left which we were happy with.
Also that's why there are bonds involved. I would not feel any bit guilty about using the bond to pay the carpet cleaning, replace nets and so on.
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hcsmum
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Posted: 17 November 2009 at 1:08pm |
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we are in the situation atm that our toddler ripped up (already peeling) wallpaper in his bedroom, I went to the property manager and said that we would strip and paint it in the summer months (which we will) he has also managed to hide under the kitchen table and draw on the walls so thats being painted too.
We aren't the tidiest of tenants I will admit, especially atm - being prego and getting on the floor to clean sucks!
HOWEVER we do try our hardest to fix things that have gone wrong - through our fault, or our sons. Hence why the rooms are being painted.
But this has reminded me that we need to rug doctor the lounge carpet :D
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jazzy
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Posted: 17 November 2009 at 2:26pm |
 BaAsKa wrote:
we have a rental and iv just found out that one of the guys living there has his girlfriend there most nights....we specified just him and my BIL living there......im wondering if im being to fussy and overbearing telling him his GF cant stay???... i dont know this girl, have never met her... |
What is up with that? Does he not pay rent? Does he trash the place? Is yes, then kick him out, if no then butt out...or are you his mum????
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Lulu
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Posted: 17 November 2009 at 3:29pm |
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We have been so lucky with tenants. A malaysian guy in our apartment has been there 6 years, never missed a rent payment and has only required maintenance twice I think.
A lovely English couple with two children in our house, they have been there since early this year and never missed a payment and actually invite me for coffee about once a month!
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squoggs
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Posted: 17 November 2009 at 3:45pm |
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Wow interesting reading... We recently moved from chch to akld and are renting out our house in chch - luckily so far the tenants have been fine. The latest tenants have a couple of small kids, so hopefully the place doesn't get too trashed as we have just repainted the inside. Mind you, I would a million times over rather kids drew on walls, picked wallpaper & spilled food than have it trashed by irresponsible malicious adults.
On the flip side, we are renting in akld, and our landlord is awesome, the house is lovely and we are looked after well :-)
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MamaT
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Posted: 17 November 2009 at 4:30pm |
I work in this industry and yes, there is definately some terrible landlords, and tenants. Some of the stories I hear are just shocking!!
Bex - it depends on your contract, some will state that tenants are responsible for water charges and any other charges to the property. We don't have anything like that here in PN so not too familiar with the differences between the likes of Auck and Welly though.
Baaska - if you have stated on your agreement the number of persons to reside at the premises you can go down the legal path of issuing notices etc. TBH though it is a long drawn out process. I don't think you're being overbearing at all though - its your house, you have every right to know who is living there
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Paws
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Posted: 17 November 2009 at 5:01pm |
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I don't think you're being overbearing at all though - its your house, you have every right to know who is living there |
Even as a non-landlord person I agree with this.
I know the other house on the property we're on was meant to be rented preferably to a couple or single or similar. There is instead a family of 4 in there (how they fit I don't know! We moved out of that house when Miss M was 6 weeks old into the front house). This was the agents doing and our landlord wasn't impressed (back house only is through the agent, we deal direct with the landlords because they know us so well now) . They did prefer a certain type of tenant and to be honest fair enough. The landlords aren't pursuing it though because we have been able to reassure them that the family does appear lovely and nice and quiet so it works out, I can still understand the concern though.
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BaAsKa
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Posted: 17 November 2009 at 9:21pm |
We specified that it could only be BIL and 1 flatmate to live there and we had to meet this flatmate first....iv never met the GF...and its alittle different because we are not charging BIL rent (personal reasons) and there is still a room of my mums stuff there which is why im a little iffy of strangers living there 
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