Tenants from hell evicted after 6-month battle

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9264289/Tenants-from-hell-evicted-after-6-month-battle

ANNA TURNER

Last updated 05:00 10/10/2013

A Christchurch landlord had his property trashed for six months while he fought to remove his tenants.

Brent Newsome, 65, has been left over $5000 out of pocket and with a house filled with rubbish, faeces and clothing after his tenants from hell refused to leave his property.

"I've never seen anything like it. It's utterly disgusting," he said.

Newsome originally bought the Avondale property for his daughter to live in, but when she moved to Perth about 18 months ago she rented the property out to an acquaintance.

"My daughter arranged it and I thought at the time the tenant seemed like an OK woman. My daughter put her on a year contract and she paid her rent on time."

But about six months ago Newsome became aware that three women were living at the property.

"Neighbours were ringing me and complaining about the tenants. They saw the police going to the place and said there was constant noise and mess."

Newsome visited the property and found it was "an absolute tip".

"There's clothes and rubbish everywhere - you can't even see the beds. Five pitbull terriers and five cats were living in the house and obviously going to the toilet through the house, because there's excrement everywhere," he said.

"The yard is filled with junk and the carpet will have to be replaced."

The smell inside was disgusting, Newsome said.

The tenant also stopped paying rent and quickly racked up arrears of $5875.

Newsome visited the property to tell the women to leave, but they refused.

"Every time I went round there she'd let the pitbulls into the corridor or lock the door. I texted them, called them; they wouldn't get out. They kept promising to go but never leaving."

Police were unable to help remove the women unless there was an "incident", Newsome said. "They said I'd have to be bitten by one of the dogs before I could. I wanted to go round there with some guys and force them to move out, but I decided to do it the proper way and go to the [tenancy] tribunal instead."

Newsome managed to remove some of the women staying at the property on Saturday.

He locked the door with a padlock, but the house is still filled with rubbish and clothes.

On Tuesday, the Tenancy Tribunal hearing ruled in favour of Newsome, giving him an application to have the tenant evicted and pay her rent arrears.

Once she had vacated the property, Newsome and his wife would have to clean it and claim compensation for the mess.

"It's been a long and stressful process, and I doubt we'll get the money back from her," he said.

Newsome wanted to share his story to prevent others from getting into a similar situation.

"As a landlord I probably could have nipped it in the bud earlier, but I want to show others how few rights you can have as a landlord and how hard it is to get someone out of your own home.

"The system doesn't really favour the landlord."

NewLynnHse

Avondale 哈哈，真巧

殺人王

"The system doesn't really favour the landlord."-----可能是因为landlord不是弱势群体所致，I　mean正常情况下