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50 Te Wharepōuri Street, Berhampore, Wellington

5/5

Tenants paid $0/week

This is one of the rare landlords who i'd 100% recommend. They were kind, excellent at up keeping the property, and even gave us discounted rent during the covid pandemic lockdown. The house is well cared for, no mold. Some of the neighbours were rude af but generally a lovely house to live in. Not sure how much we were paying total for the place though.

10 William Street, Hataitai, Wellington

1/5

Tenants paid $1250/week

Location is great, house is spacious. Landlord did very little maintenance, exposed pink bats at back of cupboard, so much mould in the walls. Landlord made racist, sexist, and homophobic comments constantly. Came over and entered the flat without proper notice several times, tries to raise the rent by 100 dollars every year

17 Warden Street, Opoho, Dunedin

1/5

Tenants paid $700/week

Landlord attempted to illegally evict tenant over a Facebook post, harassment of occupants including unlawful filming of tenants on property and constant messaging through social media. Landlord likes to “visit” and stay in the property for weeks at a time. During these stays the landlord got drunk in our common spaces, and made uncomfortable sexual comments and advances towards my young teenage flatmates. Bond not lodged for more than 6 months after moving in, written tenancy agreement not provided for months either. House is mouldy, damp, cold and ridiculously expensive for the location. Landlord is incredibly difficult to work with and refused to do any repairs when asked.

1/54 Helena Road, Hillcrest, Hamilton

4/5

Tenants paid $770/week

No property manager, landlords don’t know what they’re doing or what’s legal - make people clean the carpet professionally when they move out which isn’t legal. Don’t maintain the gardens, don’t do inspections often.

4 Springfield Terrace, Kelburn, Wellington

4/5

Tenants paid $840/week

11 Toru Street, Lyall Bay, Wellington

3/5

Tenants paid $835/week

Flat was actually quite nice at the start although there was quite a lot of stuff left behind by the previous Tennent which the landlord had not cleaned and also a shed on the property filled with the landlord's belongings which they did not empty over the 2 years of us living there and asking them to give us right to vacant possession. The other issue was trying to get the landlord to fix things, this included a rather large leak in the first bedroom that took over a year for them to attempt to fix (they never did fully fix it as by that time the full door frame had rotted away) A pile of dirt they had dumped in front of the house that when neighbours complained they moved to the middle of our lawn to grow weeds this list goes on.

2/2b Wilkinson Street, Oriental Bay, Wellington

5/5

Tenants paid $750/week

Beautiful little flat on Oriental Bay. Really well maintained and a super responsive, friendly landlord - she even let us bring our cat despite a no-pet policy. No mould issues aside from the bathroom due to poor ventilation, and any maintenance problems were dealt with swiftly.

1/168 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington

1/5

Tenants paid $800/week

Location was great (central Newtown on the main road) - but that’s where the good ends. Two of the bedrooms had no external windows, one faced a concrete wall. Damp was the name of the game - I still have mould-affected belongings from living here, despite trying my best to dehumidify and ventilate the place. There were also ant infestations and carpet beetles - the property manager wasn’t very helpful, and the landlord (slumlord) seemed very reluctant to do anything to help reduce the mould in the house, like shower domes or insulation. Still have mould-related trauma from living here. You also get the bonus of Newtown drunks/homeless banging on the door at night and exposing themselves to urinate in the driveway

1 Manley Terrace, Newtown, Wellington

4/5

Tenants paid $650/week

Very convenient location to Newtown shops, and super pretty street. My room was really nice with beautiful fireplace and bookshelves and got heaps of sunlight. My only issue was the curtain rail which was falling off and inadequate curtains. The landlord never fixed this even though I asked, I just did it myself. The lounge and kitchen were pretty sub par and small and had little to no sunlight. The garden was cute, laundry was in the outhouse/shed which was average. A bit rough around the edges but decent flat.

275 Adelaide Road, Newtown, Wellington

2/5

Tenants paid $700/week

My first flat and the worst place I have lived, although it's pretty standard for ****ty Wellington student flats. The house is down from the road so it attracts damp easily. My room always got black mould on my window sills and curtains had to clean this every few months. The house would be bone cold in winter, single glazing, not a shred of insulation and no heat pump. Landlord was basically non-existent. We did get a property manager at one point and she was very concerned about the condition of the house, nothing improved by the time I moved out though. Curious to know what's happened to this place now.