Here in the land of the long white cloud where the men drink latté, the women are merry and responsible Aucklanders invest in properties, the Residential Tenancies Act is a play-by-play book that underpins the game we are oh so familiar with – the game of landlording.
To characterise the RTA as a simple document would be… well… too simplistic. No. That would be folly. Just as mirrors have two faces, so does the RTA. It is like your ultimate frenemy, you never know when it is going to pounce and claw you in the back. Parts of it are patently obvious while other parts are as baffling to the human-mind as Paris Hilton’s rapid ascent to fame. You know, RTA can also stand for Reasons To Annoy. Just sayin’. Still, in all, it is the owner’s manual and we should read what it has to say.
To characterise the RTA as a simple document would be… well… too simplistic. No. That would be folly. Just as mirrors have two faces, so does the RTA. It is like your ultimate frenemy, you never know when it is going to pounce and claw you in the back. Parts of it are patently obvious while other parts are as baffling to the human-mind as Paris Hilton’s rapid ascent to fame. You know, RTA can also stand for Reasons To Annoy. Just sayin’. Still, in all, it is the owner’s manual and we should read what it has to say.
All Landlords Should Be Familiar with the RTA
If you are serious about being a landlord (and hey, why be one if you are not going to give it your all), you ought to be familiar with the RTA inside-out, from cover to cover, up to down, preamble to supplement, whole she-bang. You should take care of your copy, read it, memorise it, hold it, love it, caress it, become it, cocoon it in your sweet embrace and go to bed with it you know what I mean?
But come on Professor Snape, reading legislations can be SO DULL. I mean there is a reason why some people go to law school while others are content reading the words of Yeats, Byatt, Hitchens, and dare we say… 50 Shades of a certain colour that does not appear on...
