24 Jun 2019

Tenants and cleaning: what's required?

From The Panel, 4:24 pm on 24 June 2019

A tenant has won a case against her property manager for withholding the bond of the rental because carpets hadn't been cleaned. The tenant won because the tribunal said she had in fact left it "reasonably clean" and under the law, that's all that's required of tenants.

Andrew King, head of the NZ Property Investors' Federation, explains what he makes of the decision.