Keeping Kiwi renters informed

1 Ludecke Place, Sockburn, Christchurch

1/5

Tenants paid $675/week

This place was close to Uni but had issues right from the beginning. We moved in and there was glass in the carpet after previous tenants paid for it to be professionally cleaned, rats were living in the garden, the wiring was dodgy, one of the rooms was uninsulated, the whole house was freezing. Property managers (superior property management) ignored 2 notices to remedy, when a tribunal hearing was lodged they gave the property back to the landlord, who tried to bribe us with beer so we wouldn’t complain about the lack of compliance with healthy homes. Also! ANTS EVERYWHERE

37 Bedford Street, Northland, Wellington

1/5

Tenants paid $900/week

Pros of this house was 1.a nice view out to Karori Cons 1. Rat infested 2. Ant infested 3. So much black mould that we thought the place was just paint black 4. Cold all the time 5. Broken windows/ windows that would not shut 6. Landlord repeatedly entered property without our permission 7. Landlord refused to do anything about any problems listed above and told us we would have to do that as it’s not her responsibility

14 Tudor Place, Mairangi Bay, Auckland

4/5

Tenants paid $830/week

Lovely property manager Mostly dry house (feels dry but some of the bedrooms did get mouldy) Nice views + garden (garden did get very wet) Lovely sunny decks There's a bath! Had a terrible ant infestation while we were there

7 Glendon Avenue, Avondale, Auckland

4/5

Tenants paid $550/week

89 Blockhouse Bay Road, Avondale, Auckland

4/5

Tenants paid $450/week

Lived in 2 or 3/89 - the one at the back Dates + rent are approximate

2/29 Cross Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland

2/5

Tenants paid $450/week

I lived here when I was like 19, dates are aprox. Pros: Cool location! Great place for parties! Lounge fit 4 couches! There's a bath?? (It's weirdly small and high off the ground). It's right next to Miller's Coffee so the place smelt amazing every morning! Cons: There's literally 2 windows in the entire place- one in the lounge, one in the toilet. The place was gross. Grubby, stained, broken. There were like 3 holes in the walls THE BIG ONE: When it rained for more than 5 minutes the largest bedroom would leak. There are weird pipes all over the walls and ceiling of the whole place and some of them would drip. I had mushrooms grow from the carpet of that bedroom overnight. We asked for it to be fixed multiple times and nothing was done.

47 Caulton Street, Saint Johns, Auckland

2/5

Tenants paid $670/week

The pros were there was a lot of green space, we had two lemon trees that were thriving. The flat gave us lemons, unfortunately we had a very unfortunate time. The house had a lot of mold, and next to no insulation in the house. When we requested a heat pump from the landlord, he came with a cheap wall plug in heater, that required an extension cord. No windows properly closed, and we had a permanent opened slate window in the toilet. During one of our tennants sick days, a man from the council came to let them know that they'll be doing measurements for resource consent for demolition. An awkward piece of information that gave context to why the landlord hadn't been maintaining the property that he plans to remove.

2/606 Mount Albert Road, Mount Albert, Auckland

4/5

Tenants paid $1200/week

(pls note the rent is a rough estimate im not sure exactly what we paid) This place was great, lots of storage, good natural light in some rooms but not in others. Some of the bedrooms were quite small.

2/147 Upland Road, Kelburn, Wellington

2/5

Tenants paid $1050/week

Overall pretty crusty place tbh.. Up a steep ramp and then more stairs, and cold as nuts in winter. Took me 3 weeks of living there to figure out how to use the weird flush on the toilet. The room I was in was large but the ""carpet"" was made out of scratchy twine that felt awful. There was a constant puddle of water in the bathroom that would reappear when mopped, maybe a leak that never got fixed. In the end the landlord let a crackhead move in who stunk the place out with cigarettes and weed and screamed at another tenant until none of us wanted to live there anymore lol. Wouldn't recommend

72 Wellington Road, Hataitai, Wellington

3/5

Tenants paid $1225/week

Pros: 10min walk to kilbirnie shops, 5min to hataitai shops, 1-2 minutes to the 2 or 3 bus stops, across the road from walks through my vic forests, large parking spot (we had 4 cars at one point. A squish, but doable). Landlord is efficient and communicative, respects privacy every well. Lovely backyard, high fences. I Cons: there was so much mold in hard to reach spaces (landlord cleaned most of it, but it still comes back a bit). Some windows are getting a bit old, and the carpets looks to be getting on in years- especially because two tenants (one previous, one current) have kept pets in their room that aren’t toilet train, and didn’t/don't clean up after them.