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Website to name and shame bad tenants
Wednesday January 10, 2007
By Anne Gibson ?
Tenants who trash rental properties or refuse to pay the rent will soon be named on a Government-run website.
In the next few weeks, Associate Justice Minister Clayton Cosgrove is expected to announce the launch of a new online service for Tenancy Tribunal rulings so the activities of landlords and tenants can be monitored.
Last January, the tribunal released a string of decisions showing up landlords for hounding tenants via cellphones and emails, harassing and badgering them with notes and by moving their possessions, blocking vehicle access and demanding rent from employers.
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