Property Management

Tenancy Tribunal to launch database naming bad tenants

The long-promised Tenancy Tribunal database – detailing Tribunal rulings – is expected to be available from late February this year.

Wednesday, January 10th 2007

The database will be made up of current and future decisions and will not include past decisions or mediation decisions because of issues regarding the consistency and format of names on historical decisions.

The database will be updated daily, and the Department of Building and Housing expects some 20,000 orders to be lodged on the site each year.
 
The New Zealand Property Investors’ Federation has “long and strongly” lobbied for the database, said Federation president Martin Evans.
 
The database has been delayed from its original planned implementation date of July 2006.

Evans says the database will help landlords better screen prospective tenants for previous history of unpaid rent and/or deliberate vandalism.

The Federation also recommends that landlords should carefully check and record a tenant’s full name on any tenancy agreement, and says obtaining a copy of a photo identification could prove invaluable as well.

Vice president of the Federation Andrew King said landlords make 90% of Tenancy Tribunal applications, with approximately 80% of these being for rent arrears and property damage.

“At present the power is with the tenant as there are many loopholes for tenants who behave badly and few repercussions to deter bad behaviour. Hopefully these issues will be addressed in the Residential Tenancies Act review later this year,” King said.

He added that publicly listing “the few landlords who don’t know the regulations they operate under” would help the property investing industry. “Property investor associations around the country help accommodation providers to be better property managers as well as profitable property investors.”


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