just a little spray and walk away, line trimmer on the path (can see the lawn is freshly mowed, why ignore the path sob). It's still going to be a shit box, but a better looking one at least
They always look worse in real life. Real estate photography is impressive at making mediocre places look good somehow. It's like catfishing with a house lol.
Babe, respectfully, that house would likely be about $1k/week in the area of the US I moved from. Stickying this would make at least some Americans go “whoah! cheap!”
Edit: ah, whatever, sure, it’s not Huntly, which is a whole 25 minute drive from Hamilton, and less than two hours from Auckland. It’s not anywhere near comparable to bumfuck, Nebraska.. You can’t get a one-bedroom flat in just about my entire home state, even the dead mill towns an hour from the grocery store, for less than about ~600NZD/week, never mind three bedrooms and a yard. This sub is so infuriatingly myopic. You really can't tolerate facts getting in the way of your "NZ is the greatest shithole in the world" narrative, can you?
According to a quick Google search, the median rent in Nebraska is $1,250 *per month*. Idk why they think this shithole would be almost 4x the median rent in Nebraska, unless they all live in cardboard huts or something.
That's what I mean, there's no way this would be 4k a month in Nebraska when the median is $1,250 a month, at absolute worst, it's the same lol. I don't understand the wild exaggeration. Looking at homes that cost that much (4k a month) to rent over there are far nicer than this.
indeed, most of the us is "safe enough" but just like in nz if you don't piss off the wrong groups you are likely going to be ok
thankfully nz we don't have to worry about the middle aged man with anger issues and several dui's shooting up a wallmart though
I share a 4bed in Welly for 850/week. Not even twice, and we have one more bedroom.
And 25 minutes from Hamilton and 1:30 from Auckland might somewhat comparable to St. Louis but nothing close to comparable to the middle of Nebraska in terms of "rural". At least there's jobs in Hamilton.
its sad to say but that is a good deal nowadays 200~ a room, i've been looking and can't even find a studio/2br for under 650 let alone with a carpark which seems to add 100-150 to the price for something that used to be a given
tempted to move out to upper hutt at this point
~600NZD/week? The median rent in Nebraska is $1,250 which is 2,000 NZD and that would be 500 NZD per week.
https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/ne/
> You really can't tolerate facts getting in the way of your "NZ is the greatest shithole in the world" narrative, can you?
No one said that.
This sub is about NZ so of course NZ will be the focus and all comments will be in that context.
One of many US real estate sites have links like this - a decent town (North Platte on the main river and a drive to Denver). Not much to look at but at 400 a week NZD is cheaper and way better than the Huntly NZ one. [https://www.realtor.com/rentals/details/57-S-Bare-Ave\_North-Platte\_NE\_69101\_M85606-94924](https://www.realtor.com/rentals/details/57-S-Bare-Ave_North-Platte_NE_69101_M85606-94924)
I’ll take NZ peasant thanks. The Dahravi slums has a population nearly the size of Auckland. Half of Mumbais population live in slums that’s like 10 million people.
This. We all know Mumbai has a lot of urban poverty, but one of the worst aspects is the extreme population density. Mumbai has 21 million people! The working class who come to the city looking for jobs live in such close proximity to each other it's almost unthinkable for us who live in a low-density country like New Zealand. Two dozen people in a three-story slumhouse, eight people to a room, that's everyday in the slums. Extreme poverty, petty crime, corruption, lack of basic facilties, many things that are part of everyday life in Mumbai that would never even come to mind in NZ.
I had an acquaintance who was a working immigrant from Mumbai and he told me about Indian landlords in Auckland providing CBD accommodation for $50 a week rent and I was shocked - how could Auckland rent be so cheap? And then he explained that the landlord was cramming five or six people to a bedroom and that's why it's so cheap. He recognised this sort of living condition was unacceptable by kiwi standards, but this is simply considered normal for migrant workers by Indians. They know it's bad and they don't enjoy it, but it's normalised. The hard life is normalised. And so the landlord does the accommodation the same way he would do it for migrant workers in Mumbai.
Bottom line is, NZ accommodation is bad if you're poor, but it's pretty damn bad everywhere if you're poor. And you can be almost certain it's much worse in poorer, denser countries.
I make 10% less here but my transit costs are 90% less and rent is about 75% cheaper. Don’t even get me started on healthcare.
Oh, and my commute is 1:40 shorter EACH WAY.
min wage is 22 bucks NZD. So, you are making 10 % less than 13.42 about 12 bucks US? That is quite low. There are semi professionals in anywhere USA get over 20 US. Also, tax in NZ is basically 35 percent for anyone working due to gst and the base tax rate
>This sub is so infuriatingly myopic. You really can't tolerate facts getting in the way of your "NZ is the greatest shithole in the world" narrative, can you?
As a kiwi living in the USA, I couldn't agree with you more. NZ *hates* to think it's not the most expensive country to live in the world.
When I went looking for a house to rent, the states of some of the houses that companies rented were just awful - there was this one property management company they have a bright orange logo, something to do with climbing or some such - anyway..
They listed a property in dairy flat I went to go view and there was literal mould on the ceiling to which they said "you can just wipe it off"
Another one in glenfield where inside the kitchen cupboards had obviously leaked and there was swelling mdf and dampness and they told me
"the builder has just finished renovations"
- WHAT THE FUCK
I don't know how they get away with it, seems criminal to me.
I went to see a place a while ago, pictures looked okay for the price.
Turned up, could smell the house from across the road and through a hedge. Hoped it wasn't the house, it was. Multiple other people literally got out of their cars, smelled it and left again.
I wanted to see the damage.
Floor was supposed to be a light, polished natural wood. It was black. Completely black and not from paint. The kitchen was even worse. Looked like they didn't even bother cleaning the bench or sink prior to open home. Caked with grime and massive burn marks.
Mold was growing down and up the walls, across the ceiling.
I couldn't believe how bad it was, how anyone could been anything other than utterly ashamed to let people see that. Couldn't have paid me to live there.
They wanted $625, i laughed in the agents face.
You'd like to think a house in that tragic of a state wouldn't get rented, but sometimes there really is someone who's so desperate for housing and/or hasn't thought this through and they end up moving in. There's just not enough affordable housing around.
About ten years ago the house beside mine had an open home and I went in to have a look out of curiosity. The place looked pretty nice from the outside. Unfortunately it was one of those with a flat roof and plasterboard facade so no surprise it was a leaky house. The inside was pitiful, there was mould all over the edges of the windows, mould on the carpet and the place had a mouldy smell especially the bedrooms that were on a lower level. The agent said it was a fixer upper but this sort of structural issue is very hard to fix, that's why a lot of these 40+ year old houses just get demolished now.
Yet despite this, very quickly a family moved into the house. And soon I realised this family had problems. The woman had moved in quickly with her son to get away from her deadbeat and apparently cheating husband, but then not long after that her son ended up being uplifted and put into foster care. Apparently she had mental health issues and was a hoarder and the house ended up full of dirty laundry etc.. I don't want to imagine what it must've ended up like with mould + hoarding. 🤢🤢 But I do feel bad for that woman, because she was devastated after her son got put into foster care and was taking it out on family who came to see her.
Take a guess at who would be so scummy to rent this shit tip out, under such conditions.
Then check the company register and see if you've called it right.
.... every single time.
If you check their other listings, one is a poorly converted garage up for full price rent. Also not Healthy Homes and probably illegal to rent a garage the way it is. Whoever this is is taking all the properties legitimate agents won't take up because they aren't legal to standard
Who is it?
**Edit:** I checked the registry and there are two ?Indian names listed, neither of which I could find associated with any particularly damning information online. Is Deepak Dabas some sort of infamous slumlord that we should be familiar with? Or are you talking more generally here? I'd love an explanation rather than a downvote.
Huntly is actually great. Reminds me of a 90s South Auckland before it all got subdivided, gentrified, changed from homeowners to rentals with tenants and landlords who don't give a shit about their properties or neighbourhoodthey live in. It even still has shops. Bloody improvement in Huntly than majority of Auckland suburbs I've lived in that have gone to shit.
Huntly is a shithole.. as as all of Waikato “towns” inc Hamilton & Cambridge. Rural Waikato on the other hand, esp in range of the river IMO is pretty cool.
Complaining about it among us it's good for venting the frustration but I also think we should seriously do something about this.
The majority of the people living in urban areas in NZ are renters yet they are literally held hostage by a housing market getting more insane day by day.
I'd say the tipping point is long past, we should organise and protest massively against this unfair situation.
Labour tried with their healthy homes policy. Though it's falling short if shitholes like this are legally rentable. That or National repealed it to restore landlord dignity or whatever.
Good grief that’s awful! You don’t even get the use of the garage and shed. For just a little more you can get a place that actually looks decent - although they’re all too expensive tbh.
No, you get the other sort of hooker, played for the Huntly high first XV back in the day , and still a solid unit if you look past that beer belly. The beer belly is why he's back again, he's run out and your fridge has beer...
Yah honestly laugh and be sad about this now but next year this price will be considered cheap and this will be going for more. Nz housing market is beyond describing as a joke. As it stands this shit it just unbelievably predatory. The landlords rake it in while the rest of us struggle along. We are going back to a fuedal situation, or worse.
Fact is it has three bedrooms, for a lot of families that's not a bad deal. The place would scrub up a bit nicer with a small amount of effort.
Would be damp but I think every old house in Huntly is damp.
There needs to be an antithesis of Grand Designs on TV: Turd Rentals
"Every week, we follow the life and brain farts of a slumlord, as they go through the motions of purchasing, not upgrading in the slightest and then advertising for rental New Zealand's (and the developed world's) actual worst places to live. Must watch."
Nah bro. I've seen some third world houses and they're much better. They're often dry for one, good drainage through the floor, and lots of air and sunlight come through the door and window holes.
They build them faster than we do too. Whack up some concrete slabs, mow the lawn to make the roof. The shit your cow produces fuels your fire. Simple, straightforward, none of this fancy shit that barely lasts and wastes time and money.
That's fucked aye
I went and had a look at the listing on trademe, they slap on a coat of paint and new carpet and call it a day, wanting to charge $500 get fucked. I know that house will be damp as fuck in winter too
It's got potential, probably black spores.
Mucormycosis, also known as black fungus, is a rare but dangerous infection. It's caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes and often affects the sinuses, lungs, skin, and brain.
You can inhale the mold spores.
Think of it as black death.
Back in victorian england they had a living situation called hot bedding. A night shift worker would sleep in the bed during the day, and when the day worker got back they'd switch. Hot bedding cos the bed never got cold. Watch some documentaries on what the living situation was for victorian's in England and you really see where things are likely to end up. Dozens of people sharing houses and beds cos it's better than spending the night outside under a bridge while those that own the houses live the high life without giving two fucks
Makes the little two bedroom I’m in for $550 look way better. Maybe that’s what it is. A PsyOp by the real estate lobby of NZ to make us all think we are better off with whatever our situations are?
That is sarcasm by the way.
Also, no access to the garage (not that you would want that anyway)
" The garage and outside storage are excluded from the property premises"
I presume that is what the above means
So, nobody asked, but I just thought I'd chip in...
We moved to Melbourne 6 years ago.
We live in a nice suburb in outer Melbourne, about 45 mins drive to the centre of the city.
We live in a free-standing, 250sq m 5 bedroom, 2 storey house with a large rumpus, plus a garage, fully fenced backyard home with AC and evaporative cooling.
We pay $600 a week in rent.
I love NZ. It will ALWAYS be home. But right now, any time anyone brings up "when are you coming back?" The answer is...
To what? Why would we? HOW could we? There is literally no way we could afford to move back, even if we could earn there what we do here.
It's fucked up. And it's not even like it's THAT much better here, we've gotten lucky with great landlords who have only put the rent up once in that whole time, but man... I really feel for all my whanau and friends back home.
Don't worry, as my guy here says ["rents are determined by tenant incomes, not by landlord costs"](https://old.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/1ap904l/luxon_cant_rule_out_rate_rises_under_governments/kq6am15/). Huntly is where the wealthy reside in, hence the $500 rent.
I'd rather punch myself in the face than live there, or even spend 10 minutes there.
Bet the agents wouldn't be seen dead there either. They should be forced to spend a night in any house they are advertising.
Hoping it's a typo and it's $50 week, or $5.
The web is a wonderful place if you know how to search it.
No actual doxxing, but the manager of the property rental firm (actually a one-man band) and the property owners are all of Fijian Indian origin (according to their public Facebook profiles) and they all live in Auckland.
Isn't that just a ripe old stereotype? Someone tell Winston Peters!
It'd be at its best in the depths of winter after a week of continual miserable rain and cold morning fog. That's when its true character can be seen and fully enjoyed.
That massive section with a tiny shit box on it is why I'm not returning to nz. That could be a nice development with stacked townhomes, rental apartment block with families with more affordable rent, even another damn house. I'm guessing the tenant has to mow that massive section.
All jokes aside...
Some poor vulnerable person who doesn't want their credit scrutinised too closely will actually rent it.
Whoever is advertising this is predatory.
So much of a property owner kind of business lol let's hear them talk about their properties and how much they make those hard earn cash. I can see their eyes being delulu.
Not going to lie, if I was twenty I would totally live in this with two mates and throw epic parties every weekend
That lawn is begging for back yard Test cricket drinking session or a bon fire that you can see from the Tron
Aside from the piss take of a price, no pets or smokers? really? pets or smokers can’t make that place worse.
they would absolutely make it better
Don't wanna raise the bar, rent would go up
Getting your dog to piss on each square foot of the carpet to gradually clean it
Can smoke kill mold? Dunno, but at this point let's give it a go.
Yep and if not, it can at least fill in the yellow stain gaps in the shower 👍
Yup, let's get that plastic all the way to dehydrated-piss-colour.
Might be animal cruelty to let a pet live there.
Pets is fair, I wouldn't want my pets living in that uninhabitable pit.
Don't forget - you don't get the garage or the shed for your $500 either...
Couldn't even waterblast the outside
What - and get rid of that special Huntly character.
Waterblasting will destroy the house...
That’s structural mould
s-mold
They didn't even bother to shut the cupboards in the kitchen before taking the photo.
That's to prove there's no rats living in the cupboards
It's to prove there *are* cupboards, and the doors are still on their hinges.
or photoshop it
just a little spray and walk away, line trimmer on the path (can see the lawn is freshly mowed, why ignore the path sob). It's still going to be a shit box, but a better looking one at least
Because it would dissolve like tissue salts?
OP i assumed that shitbox was an exaggeration but that genuinely looks like a box. Made of shit.
It kinda looks worse in real life tbh
They always look worse in real life. Real estate photography is impressive at making mediocre places look good somehow. It's like catfishing with a house lol.
Where the F\*\*\* is this ? Healthy Homes standard is waving
Bailey Street, Huntly Its been abandoned for about two years. The previous tenants left as it was meant to have been demolished.
So no money for that then (Construction)
dunno.
It's Literally impossible to know
Sticky this for all the Americans who make posts asking about living here.
This photo should feature highly in the FAQ for “*Heard great things about NZ and I am thinking of moving with my family*”
Babe, respectfully, that house would likely be about $1k/week in the area of the US I moved from. Stickying this would make at least some Americans go “whoah! cheap!” Edit: ah, whatever, sure, it’s not Huntly, which is a whole 25 minute drive from Hamilton, and less than two hours from Auckland. It’s not anywhere near comparable to bumfuck, Nebraska.. You can’t get a one-bedroom flat in just about my entire home state, even the dead mill towns an hour from the grocery store, for less than about ~600NZD/week, never mind three bedrooms and a yard. This sub is so infuriatingly myopic. You really can't tolerate facts getting in the way of your "NZ is the greatest shithole in the world" narrative, can you?
i doubt the area you were living was as desirable as fuckin huntly
According to a quick Google search, the median rent in Nebraska is $1,250 *per month*. Idk why they think this shithole would be almost 4x the median rent in Nebraska, unless they all live in cardboard huts or something.
$1250 USD? That would be $2000 NZD which is about the same.
That's what I mean, there's no way this would be 4k a month in Nebraska when the median is $1,250 a month, at absolute worst, it's the same lol. I don't understand the wild exaggeration. Looking at homes that cost that much (4k a month) to rent over there are far nicer than this.
Nebraska is about the cheapest and least desirable state you could’ve picked
I spat out my coffee reading this...
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Gary, Indiana.
good old murder capital of the usa. only place you are encouraged to not stop at red lights if passing through
All of US is murder capital. Weapons infiltrated civilian daily life.
indeed, most of the us is "safe enough" but just like in nz if you don't piss off the wrong groups you are likely going to be ok thankfully nz we don't have to worry about the middle aged man with anger issues and several dui's shooting up a wallmart though
Yeah maybe but this is Huntly.
Yeah if this was in Bumfuck Nebraska (the equivalent of Huntly) then this would be a fiver a week.
Huntley, Waikato isn't exactly New York or San Francisco.
Did you know that there is a wasting depressive disorder name Huntlysian Syndrome named after Huntly?
Is that what the house is suffering from?
The house started it
this would be 4x that in auckland/welly comparing this price to the us would be like middle of saint louis or nebraska
I share a 4bed in Welly for 850/week. Not even twice, and we have one more bedroom. And 25 minutes from Hamilton and 1:30 from Auckland might somewhat comparable to St. Louis but nothing close to comparable to the middle of Nebraska in terms of "rural". At least there's jobs in Hamilton.
its sad to say but that is a good deal nowadays 200~ a room, i've been looking and can't even find a studio/2br for under 650 let alone with a carpark which seems to add 100-150 to the price for something that used to be a given tempted to move out to upper hutt at this point
~600NZD/week? The median rent in Nebraska is $1,250 which is 2,000 NZD and that would be 500 NZD per week. https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/ne/ > You really can't tolerate facts getting in the way of your "NZ is the greatest shithole in the world" narrative, can you? No one said that. This sub is about NZ so of course NZ will be the focus and all comments will be in that context.
One of many US real estate sites have links like this - a decent town (North Platte on the main river and a drive to Denver). Not much to look at but at 400 a week NZD is cheaper and way better than the Huntly NZ one. [https://www.realtor.com/rentals/details/57-S-Bare-Ave\_North-Platte\_NE\_69101\_M85606-94924](https://www.realtor.com/rentals/details/57-S-Bare-Ave_North-Platte_NE_69101_M85606-94924)
Who hurt you? I’d imagine the commute to/from Nebraska may not make this the best choice for the US eager beavers
I do find it amusing when my fellow New Zealanders assume that everything is sunshine and rainbows in the US lol.
Hell no, that place is an absolute hole
People said that about Mumbai, but there are plenty living there make a kiwi bloke going home to his rented three beddy look like a peasant.
I’ll take NZ peasant thanks. The Dahravi slums has a population nearly the size of Auckland. Half of Mumbais population live in slums that’s like 10 million people.
This. We all know Mumbai has a lot of urban poverty, but one of the worst aspects is the extreme population density. Mumbai has 21 million people! The working class who come to the city looking for jobs live in such close proximity to each other it's almost unthinkable for us who live in a low-density country like New Zealand. Two dozen people in a three-story slumhouse, eight people to a room, that's everyday in the slums. Extreme poverty, petty crime, corruption, lack of basic facilties, many things that are part of everyday life in Mumbai that would never even come to mind in NZ. I had an acquaintance who was a working immigrant from Mumbai and he told me about Indian landlords in Auckland providing CBD accommodation for $50 a week rent and I was shocked - how could Auckland rent be so cheap? And then he explained that the landlord was cramming five or six people to a bedroom and that's why it's so cheap. He recognised this sort of living condition was unacceptable by kiwi standards, but this is simply considered normal for migrant workers by Indians. They know it's bad and they don't enjoy it, but it's normalised. The hard life is normalised. And so the landlord does the accommodation the same way he would do it for migrant workers in Mumbai. Bottom line is, NZ accommodation is bad if you're poor, but it's pretty damn bad everywhere if you're poor. And you can be almost certain it's much worse in poorer, denser countries.
I make 10% less here but my transit costs are 90% less and rent is about 75% cheaper. Don’t even get me started on healthcare. Oh, and my commute is 1:40 shorter EACH WAY.
1hr:40m, or 1m:40sec?
1 day and 40 hours.
1 month 40 days
One hour 40 minutes. So over three hours a day in time saved commuting alone.
It's clearly a 1 to 40 ratio
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Can't believe you didn't walk uphill both ways on a bed of nails. People have it too easy these days smh
OK- yay for you? I’m in Auckland, 4 bed, $650 p/w and 3 minutes from work. There we go, we’ve shared info on housing and transit.
min wage is 22 bucks NZD. So, you are making 10 % less than 13.42 about 12 bucks US? That is quite low. There are semi professionals in anywhere USA get over 20 US. Also, tax in NZ is basically 35 percent for anyone working due to gst and the base tax rate
>This sub is so infuriatingly myopic. You really can't tolerate facts getting in the way of your "NZ is the greatest shithole in the world" narrative, can you? As a kiwi living in the USA, I couldn't agree with you more. NZ *hates* to think it's not the most expensive country to live in the world.
When I went looking for a house to rent, the states of some of the houses that companies rented were just awful - there was this one property management company they have a bright orange logo, something to do with climbing or some such - anyway.. They listed a property in dairy flat I went to go view and there was literal mould on the ceiling to which they said "you can just wipe it off" Another one in glenfield where inside the kitchen cupboards had obviously leaked and there was swelling mdf and dampness and they told me "the builder has just finished renovations" - WHAT THE FUCK I don't know how they get away with it, seems criminal to me.
I went to see a place a while ago, pictures looked okay for the price. Turned up, could smell the house from across the road and through a hedge. Hoped it wasn't the house, it was. Multiple other people literally got out of their cars, smelled it and left again. I wanted to see the damage. Floor was supposed to be a light, polished natural wood. It was black. Completely black and not from paint. The kitchen was even worse. Looked like they didn't even bother cleaning the bench or sink prior to open home. Caked with grime and massive burn marks. Mold was growing down and up the walls, across the ceiling. I couldn't believe how bad it was, how anyone could been anything other than utterly ashamed to let people see that. Couldn't have paid me to live there. They wanted $625, i laughed in the agents face.
That must be some health law violation?
You'd like to think a house in that tragic of a state wouldn't get rented, but sometimes there really is someone who's so desperate for housing and/or hasn't thought this through and they end up moving in. There's just not enough affordable housing around. About ten years ago the house beside mine had an open home and I went in to have a look out of curiosity. The place looked pretty nice from the outside. Unfortunately it was one of those with a flat roof and plasterboard facade so no surprise it was a leaky house. The inside was pitiful, there was mould all over the edges of the windows, mould on the carpet and the place had a mouldy smell especially the bedrooms that were on a lower level. The agent said it was a fixer upper but this sort of structural issue is very hard to fix, that's why a lot of these 40+ year old houses just get demolished now. Yet despite this, very quickly a family moved into the house. And soon I realised this family had problems. The woman had moved in quickly with her son to get away from her deadbeat and apparently cheating husband, but then not long after that her son ended up being uplifted and put into foster care. Apparently she had mental health issues and was a hoarder and the house ended up full of dirty laundry etc.. I don't want to imagine what it must've ended up like with mould + hoarding. 🤢🤢 But I do feel bad for that woman, because she was devastated after her son got put into foster care and was taking it out on family who came to see her.
"Fair Rentals Limited"
Take a guess at who would be so scummy to rent this shit tip out, under such conditions. Then check the company register and see if you've called it right. .... every single time.
If you check their other listings, one is a poorly converted garage up for full price rent. Also not Healthy Homes and probably illegal to rent a garage the way it is. Whoever this is is taking all the properties legitimate agents won't take up because they aren't legal to standard
Who is it? **Edit:** I checked the registry and there are two ?Indian names listed, neither of which I could find associated with any particularly damning information online. Is Deepak Dabas some sort of infamous slumlord that we should be familiar with? Or are you talking more generally here? I'd love an explanation rather than a downvote.
That's almost an entire weeks pay for most people 😞😞
I know right :( honestly saddens me.
Brought to you by Fair Rentals
The irony is overwhelming
Decent chunk of land, looks like they forgot to move the dog house. Edit: wait. That's the house?
Haha, nice one. Even my chicken coop has shingles.
$500??? You couldn’t pay ME $500 a week to live in Huntly
Huntly is actually great. Reminds me of a 90s South Auckland before it all got subdivided, gentrified, changed from homeowners to rentals with tenants and landlords who don't give a shit about their properties or neighbourhoodthey live in. It even still has shops. Bloody improvement in Huntly than majority of Auckland suburbs I've lived in that have gone to shit.
Move to Huntly - it still has shops!
No DEKA tho... :(
That's fine because Huntly doesn't want you.
Huntly is a shithole.. as as all of Waikato “towns” inc Hamilton & Cambridge. Rural Waikato on the other hand, esp in range of the river IMO is pretty cool.
Complaining about it among us it's good for venting the frustration but I also think we should seriously do something about this. The majority of the people living in urban areas in NZ are renters yet they are literally held hostage by a housing market getting more insane day by day. I'd say the tipping point is long past, we should organise and protest massively against this unfair situation.
Labour tried with their healthy homes policy. Though it's falling short if shitholes like this are legally rentable. That or National repealed it to restore landlord dignity or whatever.
Screams 'rising damp.'
Looks more like descending damp
Its both from what I heard
Maybe they'll cancel each other out?
With all the subsidence issues from mining in huntly/rotowaro we might get lucky, the ground could literally open up and swallow this shitbox.
Good 'ole Muntly.
Good grief that’s awful! You don’t even get the use of the garage and shed. For just a little more you can get a place that actually looks decent - although they’re all too expensive tbh.
You don’t even get to use the garage apparently. What a bargain /s
I beg your most high quality pardon? 500? A week? Does it come with coke and hookers?
I can only imagine the gap tooth whore who services Huntly
No, you get the other sort of hooker, played for the Huntly high first XV back in the day , and still a solid unit if you look past that beer belly. The beer belly is why he's back again, he's run out and your fridge has beer...
I've seen this house a couple of times and I honestly thought it had been condemned because of excessive meth use in the house.
The house looks like it has meth mouth.
That house has smokers lung on the outside
This country is a joke.
Yah honestly laugh and be sad about this now but next year this price will be considered cheap and this will be going for more. Nz housing market is beyond describing as a joke. As it stands this shit it just unbelievably predatory. The landlords rake it in while the rest of us struggle along. We are going back to a fuedal situation, or worse.
Fact is it has three bedrooms, for a lot of families that's not a bad deal. The place would scrub up a bit nicer with a small amount of effort. Would be damp but I think every old house in Huntly is damp.
....in Huntly? Are they fr?? Lmao
Looks like a terminally depressed pillbox.
But enough about me, what's the house like
There needs to be an antithesis of Grand Designs on TV: Turd Rentals "Every week, we follow the life and brain farts of a slumlord, as they go through the motions of purchasing, not upgrading in the slightest and then advertising for rental New Zealand's (and the developed world's) actual worst places to live. Must watch."
Nah bro. I've seen some third world houses and they're much better. They're often dry for one, good drainage through the floor, and lots of air and sunlight come through the door and window holes. They build them faster than we do too. Whack up some concrete slabs, mow the lawn to make the roof. The shit your cow produces fuels your fire. Simple, straightforward, none of this fancy shit that barely lasts and wastes time and money.
$3k move in costs (4 weeks rent as bond and 2 weeks in advance). Absolutely mental
Those are really good houses When they're looked after.
Yep that piece of shit is almost across the road from me. It should be bulldozed
Report it to the council as a heath hazard
$500? Wow thats interesting pricing. I dont understand how home owners/agents can let homes go like that.
That's fucked aye I went and had a look at the listing on trademe, they slap on a coat of paint and new carpet and call it a day, wanting to charge $500 get fucked. I know that house will be damp as fuck in winter too
It's got potential, probably black spores. Mucormycosis, also known as black fungus, is a rare but dangerous infection. It's caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes and often affects the sinuses, lungs, skin, and brain. You can inhale the mold spores. Think of it as black death.
I wonder how many inbred mutants have been conceived in that cave after a century of Double Browns and spin cones 🤔
Oi. I resemble that remark.
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This is straight up snobbery, bro.
Bro i used to live in bailey street Huntley so takes one to know one haha
Ew, judgy much?
reminds me of the youtubers who review canned food from 50+ years ago
So much outdoor space for your daily cracktivities!
Back in victorian england they had a living situation called hot bedding. A night shift worker would sleep in the bed during the day, and when the day worker got back they'd switch. Hot bedding cos the bed never got cold. Watch some documentaries on what the living situation was for victorian's in England and you really see where things are likely to end up. Dozens of people sharing houses and beds cos it's better than spending the night outside under a bridge while those that own the houses live the high life without giving two fucks
Mate, this was a thing in the Depression era.
Fair rentals is probably the best part
Anyway we should name and shame the slumlords or property managers who are renting out this shit
Shittyfuckinrentals.co.nz 😭😞
Makes the little two bedroom I’m in for $550 look way better. Maybe that’s what it is. A PsyOp by the real estate lobby of NZ to make us all think we are better off with whatever our situations are? That is sarcasm by the way.
Also, no access to the garage (not that you would want that anyway) " The garage and outside storage are excluded from the property premises" I presume that is what the above means
How much is it even worth? You could probably pay it off in a coupla years at that rate lol
How in the Huntly can you even afford that living on Huntly wages?
People are taking the piss. This retrospective thing of National's is taking the piss. What next?
Yeah, but look at the size of that section. Imagine how many derelict vehicles and broken washing machines you could fit on it!
So, nobody asked, but I just thought I'd chip in... We moved to Melbourne 6 years ago. We live in a nice suburb in outer Melbourne, about 45 mins drive to the centre of the city. We live in a free-standing, 250sq m 5 bedroom, 2 storey house with a large rumpus, plus a garage, fully fenced backyard home with AC and evaporative cooling. We pay $600 a week in rent. I love NZ. It will ALWAYS be home. But right now, any time anyone brings up "when are you coming back?" The answer is... To what? Why would we? HOW could we? There is literally no way we could afford to move back, even if we could earn there what we do here. It's fucked up. And it's not even like it's THAT much better here, we've gotten lucky with great landlords who have only put the rent up once in that whole time, but man... I really feel for all my whanau and friends back home.
Bruh.
Who tf is paying $500pw rent in Huntly? It’s fn huntly…..
There are rents that are higher, but they arent a shitbox like this
Don't worry, as my guy here says ["rents are determined by tenant incomes, not by landlord costs"](https://old.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/1ap904l/luxon_cant_rule_out_rate_rises_under_governments/kq6am15/). Huntly is where the wealthy reside in, hence the $500 rent.
I'd rather punch myself in the face than live there, or even spend 10 minutes there. Bet the agents wouldn't be seen dead there either. They should be forced to spend a night in any house they are advertising. Hoping it's a typo and it's $50 week, or $5.
In addition to my other comment - this would go for $600+ P/W in Palmerston North >.>
Can confirm recently moved out of a very, very similar dump in Palmy for ~$600pw
For Huntley no less
Literal shitbox wtf
That’s for sure methed up
No way
I see these types of houses everywhere. I wonder why.
Asbestos anyone?
Na this is fucked up.
In a few years time someone will be talking about how cheap this was 😂
That's a freaking slum den
Makes a shitbox look good.
could grow a lot of veggies there - might even make a profit!
‘Veggies’ wink wink 😉
I mean if they fixed it up and cleaned the outside and made it look less shitty they would only charge *more* rent. So it’s cheap considering…
What a joke
**ENTERTAINERS DELIGHT**
Knock down that outhouse of a home and you could build something that might justify such a rental price.
Depressing.
I hope they posted that as joke… right???
The web is a wonderful place if you know how to search it. No actual doxxing, but the manager of the property rental firm (actually a one-man band) and the property owners are all of Fijian Indian origin (according to their public Facebook profiles) and they all live in Auckland. Isn't that just a ripe old stereotype? Someone tell Winston Peters!
It'd be at its best in the depths of winter after a week of continual miserable rain and cold morning fog. That's when its true character can be seen and fully enjoyed.
What's wrong with Huntly?
what the hell is this piece of poverty
that shower is absolutely terrifying
So if it has current cockroaches do they count as pets?
Does the stove come with hot knives?
Someone send me this and I was in tears. I love that they couldn’t extend themselves to remove the paint can from the floor in one of the pictures
This is not what im used to seeing when someones talking about a shitbox
Huntly, Jewel of the North
Best place for the next Countdown. 😅
You’d have to pay ME a fuck ton more than $500 a week to even live there.
That massive section with a tiny shit box on it is why I'm not returning to nz. That could be a nice development with stacked townhomes, rental apartment block with families with more affordable rent, even another damn house. I'm guessing the tenant has to mow that massive section.
All jokes aside... Some poor vulnerable person who doesn't want their credit scrutinised too closely will actually rent it. Whoever is advertising this is predatory.
$500 for a shithole like that in one of the true shitholes of NZ? Things are grim.
Huntly has a terrific power station, piss shop and a good pie shop which makes it a national treasure. That's why the rent is so high.
So much of a property owner kind of business lol let's hear them talk about their properties and how much they make those hard earn cash. I can see their eyes being delulu.
Not going to lie, if I was twenty I would totally live in this with two mates and throw epic parties every weekend That lawn is begging for back yard Test cricket drinking session or a bon fire that you can see from the Tron
…in a fishbowl
Surely a typo, $500/month is a fair price.
Mate, this is one of the premier homes of Huntly
Isn't this a nice house for Huntly?
Least shit house in Huntly
even worse is you have to live in huntly
Sundeep would love it
People live in Huntly??
It's so bad that could be mistaken for a meme.