How You Can Make Your Voice Heard as a Landlord | Ep. 181

In this episode, we discuss how you can make your voice hear in regards to the proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act.

The Auckland Property Investors Association saw that 363 people submitted on the ringfencing legislation. About 110 of those submissions were against ringfencing.

So very few people participate in the legislative process.

That means that your submission represents a large proportion of submitters.

You can submit by:

• Submit on time! Midnight on 25th March
• Answer the questions and stick to the topics
• Share a personal story
• Demonstrate early on and that you have skin in the game. Specifically, identify how you will respond to the changes as a landlord, including the consequences on others, like your tenants and neighbours of your rental properties
• Don't copy and paste from other's submissions; they won't be given weight.

The episode wraps up with a discussion about how society views landlords. Landlords are sometimes seen to be unfairly profiting off of a perceived human right (housing). But, typically, landlords have no interest in meddling with their tenant's lives. Most landlords don't become property investors to be a landlord, but rather to better their future through this property investment business.

We also mentioned APIA's toolkit, which you can use to guide your submission. You can view and download this here.