Don’t do the KFC test

PHOTO: KFC TEST

Property managers and landlords are being told not to perform the “KFC test” on prospective tenants.

The issue was raised last year when New Zealand First MP Darroch Ball released audio of a select committee oral submission in which a property manager said it was usual practice to ask to see bank account details, to determine whether tenants could pay rent.

Rachel Kann told the committee it was common to see lots of payments to KFC and for things tenants couldn’t afford.

“I don’t just want to put a tenant into a property and no sooner have they been put in they can’t afford the rent,” she said.

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