"Landlords are renting unfit, filthy homes as Christchurch's rental problems worsen.
Christchurch's post-earthquake shortage of rental homes has pushed up rents and led to long queues to view homes.
Helen Gatonyi, manager of Tenants Protection, said tenants were desperate and would take almost anything. Some unscrupulous landlords were taking advantage of the situation.
She had seen homes rented with external walls full of holes, carpet wet from leaks, and mouldy curtains, and properties left dirty and unrepaired between tenancies.
"It's really, really distressing for people. They are accepting rubbish, and staying in rubbish. They know if they don't take it, somebody else will.
"There's a whole market of dumpy, awful, substandard housing now emerging..."
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Yep, that sounds much like the Christchurch rental market I remember!
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Which begs the question...why do they stay in Christchurch?
With the fantastic restaurants, myriad bars and the ladies of negotiable affections gone- why the hell would you want to stay?
"Ladies of negotiable affections"...
ROFL! love it.
Not many could afford to go north, and why would you want to go further south?
I can sell them a perfectly good house, not far from Wellington for 164K
not far from Wellington
Yeah... something like hopping from the frying pan to a potential inferno :)
Don't be so picky. :)
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