Haven Magazine

RENTAL RELIEF

Injecting personality into a rental has previously been limited to how well you can arrange your furniture or how skilled you are at hanging adhesive hooks. However, recent changes to New Zealand’s Residential Tenancies Act will give tenants the right to make minor changes to their homes, as well as provide them with more security of tenure.

This means putting in a vege garden just became a lot

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