PHOTO: CHRIS MCKEEN/STUFF One tenant said she was promised a long-term lease. “Three years later I am given a box of biscuits along with a 90-day notice to terminate my tenancy – a week and a bit before Christmas.”
Stuff recently reported on an Auckland tenant who was upset to have been given notice in the week before Christmas.
Stories flooded in, in response to the article.
Tenants said they had been poorly treated – but landlords said it was not as simple as that.
Jessica
We have only been in our place since July and when we were offered it we were told the owner had agreed for us to go on a periodic tenancy after a seven-month lease which is the only reason we agreed to move in. If we knew from the beginning that we could only stay for seven months then we would have kept looking.
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