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Today on The Spinoff: Chumbawamba slams Winston Peters. Plus: what really causes our high skin cancer rates, and is asking banks to stop investing in fossil fuels working?
But first: A longtime tenant of New Zealand’s biggest residential landlord shares their experience.
“I first noticed the dry rot just weeks after moving in with two little ones. The wooden post which held the lovely French doors that opened onto the deck was rotted through and the whole thing would sway out from the house, unattached, when I opened it. They removed it and installed a ranchslider but then the floor next to that started to rot.
I kind of just expected that they would look after their own property and investments. They did yearly inspections where they walked through and quickly eyeballed the place. I think they looked for holes in walls, missing doors, anything illegal and obvious signs of damage.”
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