DIY landlords to escape regulations noose

Despite all participants at recent Housing and Urban Development Ministry (HUD) workshops urging it to lobby the Government to include private landlords, senior officials say it is not in their remit to recommend that.

The reason - private landlords are covered by the Residential Tenancies Act, says Residential Property Managers Association president David Pearse, who was at one of the meetings.

HUD ran the workshops to discuss submissions on the proposed legislation. More than 100 were received during the first few days of the submission period.

Pearse says Associate Housing Minister Poto Williams, who is promoting the legislation, says she found it unusual for everyone across the industry to agree private landlords should be included or at least registered, but he got the distinct impression there will be no change to the regulations as they are proposed. She did invite the association to make submissions.