Published tribunal order
Tenancy Tribunal case 5017609 — Rent arrears at 65 Churchill Street, Kaikoura, Kaikoura 7300
Decided 18 Mar 2025 · Published 18 Mar 2025 · Application 5017609
Landlord favoured
- Rent arrears
Order
- Jennifer Cassidy must pay Kāinga Ora–Homes And Communities $743.02 immediately, calculated as shown in the table below:
Reasons
- Ms Smith, representing the landlord, attended the teleconference hearing. The phone number for the tenant, the last three digits being 047, was called twice. Both calls went to voicemail. As the tenant was served, the hearing proceeded in her absence.
- The landlord has applied for rent arrears and compensation following the end of the tenancy.
How much is owed for rent?
- The tenancy ended on 18 September 2024, according to the landlord. The landlord has provided rent records which prove the amount owing to 18 September 2024, the end of the tenancy, adjusted downwards for weekly payments made since by the tenant up to the date of hearing on 18 March 2025, is $627.00. Compensation
- The landlord claimed that the tenant incurred two charges during her tenancy, which she has not paid the landlord. The first charge is for $32.02 when the tenant could not get into her property and had locked her keys inside and had to have access arranged by the landlord on 2 December 2021. The second charge is for new keys for the front and back doors, which had to be made when the tenant was locked out on 19 December 2023, which cost the landlord $226.98, but for which the landlord is only charging the tenant $84.00. Therefore, the total charges for the two incidents during the tenancy, which I find to be reasonable charges given the evidence is $116.02. The landlord provided documents confirming these charges. I award this to the landlord for providing access to the property and for having new keys made for the tenant, both incidents that happened during the tenancy.
- The amounts ordered are proved.