Earthquake - landlord wants his house to live in - kicking out tenants

[Grasshopperus]

So I guess you rent then ? Gen Y or Z earn lots and broke

No, I own my house, well 50% of it, bank owns the rest. Gen Y thanks for asking.

[orangeback]

got three weeks notice today

[steve_t]

got three weeks notice today

Uhh... tell your landlord that you legally need to be given 42 days to leave, not 3 weeks, and that's only if the house is being used by him or for his family. 90 days otherwise.

[imdying]

Uhh... tell your landlord that you legally need to be given 42 days to leave, not 3 weeks, and that's only if the house is being used by him or for his family. 90 days otherwise.

IIRC this is the law. IANAL

[neels]

Uhh... tell your landlord that you legally need to be given 42 days to leave, not 3 weeks, and that's only if the house is being used by him or for his family. 90 days otherwise.

Unless he is the landlord, in which case the tenant can give him 3 weeks notice that they are leaving.

Not that there should be any problem renting out a house in chch at the moment...

[Flip]

Sure sucks to be a tenant at the moment.

And the government has killed the tax advantages for landlords so few new rentals are going into the rental stock.

Do you know that 70,000 people have left Christchurch and need accommodation in other cities.

I guess the National government will have to invest billions into new rental houses. No I didn't think so either, so I guess rents are going up.