Landlords: don’t overlook smoke alarms
The Tenancy Tribunal has come down hard on a landlord, Arie Peter Sterk, whose rental accommodation had no smoke alarms – even though it was makeshift, derelict, neglected and a fire risk.
In 2016, Sterk was renting out three buses, a caravan, a bungalow and a garage/shed type structure on a West Auckland property.
A retired pensioner rented the garage/shed type structure, but Auckland Council found it to be non-compliant and the pensioner moved out in late 2016.
Shortly afterwards the MBIE Tenancy Compliance and Investigations Team became involved and, as it felt it was in the public interest to do so, initiated proceedings in the Tribunal as if it was the tenant.
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