Published tribunal order
Tenancy Tribunal case 5106650 — Tenancy dispute at 5B Scotts Road, Manurewa East, Auckland 2102
Decided 29 Apr 2025 · Published 29 Apr 2025 · Application 5106650
Landlord favoured
- Filing Fee
- Water Rates
Order
- Leone Lokeni and Andrew Vaka'uta must pay Immanuel Enterprises Limited T/As Staywell Property Management As Agent For Jim's Family Trust $1,249.14 immediately, calculated as shown in table below.
- The Bond Centre is to refund the balance of the bond of $205.56 and release the earlier unrefunded bond of $1,594.44 to the landlord forthwith.
Reasons
- Only the landlord attended the video conference hearing. The tenant did not participate. Calls to the tenant’s telephone numbers were unsuccessful.
- The landlord has applied for water rates, refund of the bond, and reimbursement of the filing fee following the end of the tenancy.
- On 31 May 2024, the Tribunal made an order relating to this tenancy under application number 4848001, for rent arrears to 1 June 2024. The previous order is incorporated into this order for enforcement and bond refund purposes.
- The Tribunal under application number 4848001 directed the bond of $1,594.44 to be refunded to the landlord. The balance of the bond of $205.56 is now dealt with as follows.
How much is owed for water rates?
- The tenancy ended on 1 June 2024. The landlord provided water rates invoices which prove the amount owing at the end of the tenancy.
- The landlord also provided their emails sent to the tenant’s email address for service since the start of the tenancy in June 2020 to the end of the tenancy in June 2024 attaching water rates invoices to be paid by the tenant. The tenant has not been required to pay fixed wastewater charges.
- I am satisfied that the tenant has been issued regular water rates invoices from time to time and the tenant has not paid them as required under the tenancy agreement.
- The amounts ordered are proved.
- The whole bond is now disbursed to the landlord.