Published tribunal order
Tenancy Tribunal case 5137549 — Cleanliness at 16B Airdrie Road, Ranui, Auckland 0612
Decided 30 Apr 2025 · Published 30 Apr 2025 · Application 5137549
- Cleanliness
Party names are redacted in the official published order.
Order
- The tenants’ names and identifying details must not be published.
- [The tenants] must pay M2 Real Estate Limited as agent for Manu Kumari $679.53 from the bond, calculated as shown in table below.
- The Bond Centre is to pay the bond of $2,800.00 ([Bond number suppressed]) immediately apportioned as follows: M2 Real Estate Limited as agent for Manu Kumari: $679.53 [The tenants]: $2,120.47
Reasons
- The hearing was conducted remotely on Microsoft Teams.
- Moritz Muck attended the hearing for the landlord’s agent.
- The tenants attended for themselves.
- The landlord has applied for water arrears, compensation, reimbursement of the filing fee, and payment from the bond following the end of the tenancy.
How much is owed for water rates?
- The tenancy ended on 17 November 2024.
- A water invoice came through after the tenants had left.
- The landlord has proved the amount owing. The Tribunal orders the $65.86 sought.
Did the tenant comply with their obligations at the end of the tenancy?
- The landlord claims for cleaning, rubbish removal, and light bulbs.
- At the end of the tenancy, tenants must ensure they leave the premises reasonably clean and tidy and remove all rubbish. 1
- Tenants must also replace consumables such as standard light bulbs. The landlord had to replace two light bulbs. The Tribunal orders $20.00 for the cost of replacement light bulbs.
- The tenants had to move to another city. They ran out of time to remove all their possessions and unwanted items such as old tyres. The Tribunal orders the tenants to reimburse the landlord the $250.00 it had to pay to remove the tyres.
- I have reviewed the photographs of the premises at the beginning of the tenancy and at its end. I am not satisfied that the tenants did not leave the premises reasonably clean except in respect to fly spots on the ceiling.
- I am satisfied that the tenants did not leave the ceilings reasonably clean. The landlord paid its cleaner $950.00 to clean the ceilings. The entry photographs are unclear as to how clean the ceilings were at the beginning of the tenancy. The paintwork may be a decade or more old. I consider it is appropriate that the tenants contribute one-third of the cost to clean the ceilings.
- The amounts ordered are proved. 1 Residential Tenancies Act 1986 (RTA), s 40(1)(e)(iii). Filing fee
- The tenants must reimburse the landlord for the filing fee. 2 Non-publication
- The Tribunal must on application order that the party’s name or identifying particulars not be published, unless the Tribunal considers that publication is in the public interest or is justified because of the party’s conduct or any other circumstances of the case. 3
- The Tribunal may on its own initiative, having regard to the interests of the parties and to the public interest, order that the name or any identifying particulars of any party not be published.
- The tenants have substantially succeeded in this claim. Non-publication is in the public interest, and consistent with the parties’ interests.
- Therefore, the Tribunal orders that the tenants’ names and identifying details must not be published.