New changes to the RTA and the end to a 90-day no-cause termination notice

I COULD offer a rental (don't HAVE to). I think I will leave it empty though. Better peace of mind.

There will be a whole class of people who will no longer be able to rent a private rental as they have poor credit or poor tenancy history plus first time renters will never get their foot in the door I predict.

This will all surely backfire as tenants will have all the rights, more so than they do now! There's already a lot of rentals up for sale, being purchased by first time home owners, because of the Healthy Homes requirements, thus leaving less rentals. That hasn't worked out very well, has it? This new raft of laws will surely have a lot more landlords selling.

Landlords not making any cash inflows would rather keep the property vacant rather than getting into potential problems caused by these new legislations. This will create further shortage of rentals and push the rents up further.
These are not the sustainable solutions.

I have a property I was going to rent out soon - all is work completed for compliance with the necessary statutory requirements.
But with this latest attack on homeowner renting I am now going to sell it. What short-sighted and incompetent government management of a NZ crisis regarding shortage of rental property.

"A party who is (wholly or substantially) successful in the Tenancy Tribunal can choose to have their identifying details removed from the Tribunal's decision"

This assumes the Tenancy Tribunal works flawless and protects innocent people from being exposed.
Now the reality.
Our previous tenant caused a lot of damage to the property and it took two full months to repair the property.
I took 158 pictures and composed 20 pages of documentation to prove the damage to the Tenancy Tribunal judge.
On the hearing the judge said he did not see a single picture as the tenancy tribunal system did not technically allow him to do so.
He also did not bother to read the supporting documents either.
Not a single claim was awarded.
Not even the costs of bringing rubbish left by tenant to the tip.
Before that another tenant did not mention she had a mentally ill partner.
The partner cut water pipes and left the water running for months causing an estimated $20k damage. We had to take out a $20k mortgage topup to cover the costs.
Our property manager did not represent the case properly and no compensation was awarded.
After having witnessed 3 cases in the Tenancy Tribunal first hand I have lost my confidence in the Tenancy Tribunal process.
The Tenancy Tribunal system is tremendously biased in favour of the tenants.
The only console I have is that people can find tenants in the tribunal records.
This now seems something of the past as well.
It most certainly will backfire to renters who are in the most vulnerable position.
I predict that many landlords will put their house on the market , driving up rents even more.

I have been a landlord for over 20 years and have had only 8 bad experiences with tenants and many thank yous and compliments from very happy tenants. Unfortunately one of the bad experiences, in which the police had to be involved, was in March this year. The existing changes to the Tenancy Act have left me little with limited options to manage the situation. Now keeping a unique, desirable, special apartment vacant. Reason with 3 apartments in a small block occupied, by it too big a risk, even under the existing changes to get 1 lot of tenants that may upset the other tenants or do damage to the property. Elizabeth

Absolutely ridiculous, We will be selling our rental

I can see rents going up, to cover all of the costs of compliance and due to the fact that rent when only increased once per year, cannot keep pace with the costs of insurance or rates etc increases, let alone maintenance and repairs.

PS this is Jenny speaking, not Steve: Everyone, its ele tion year. What is reasonable as a landlord? We must all contact our MPs and state our case. They will want our votes and this Bill will likely get through before the election. Sti k up for ourselves.