The tenants bite back.
Tenants strike back with own website
5:00AM Wednesday February 14, 2007
By Anne Gibson
Tenants who want to make their renting experiences public are being encouraged to post comments about their landlords and property managers on a website.
But the site has raised the ire of a landlords' group, which says it allows tenants to bad-mouth landlords.
John Oldfield said his new website - landlordcheck.co.nz - was not a "name and shame" site but an attempt to promote the idea that tenants were customers who should be treated well.
"A lot of landlords have poor attitudes towards tenants," he said, citing one comment posted on a property investment website which said: "We often have a certain level of disdain for tenants, we look down on them and pity the way they have to pay us rent because they can't organise their own finances to be able to purchase a property of their own."
Oldfield said such attitudes were pervasive and should change.
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