I read this article today and thought...get fuct. Can someone please write an article about how the landlord should really be called the SLUMLORD. They are sooo quick to raise the rent, and sooo slow to fix anything. My house is poorly insulated, which makes it cold and damp, and my oil heater constantly goes cause the heat escapes through the walls. In Switzerland my mate who rents said that if the landlord wants to sell his property he has to find his tenant a new place to live of either equal  or less rent than what he is paying, and the tenant has to like the new place that the landlord has found him. WTF New Zealand?!?!?, you'd think being a relatively new country that we would of learned a few things by the mistakes that the 'old' world has made. But yeah nah, aye?