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5:30 pm, August 23rd, 2023 - 13 comments
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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300955677/nz-election-2023-live-hipkins-working-from-hospital-with-his-sick-child
One little girl is far more important than an election campaign.![smiley smiley](https://cdn2.thestandard.org.nz/wp-content/plugins/ark-wysiwyg-comment-editor/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png?x42494)
Yes a few of us have sent messages on his face book.![heart heart](https://cdn2.thestandard.org.nz/wp-content/plugins/ark-wysiwyg-comment-editor/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/heart.png?x42494)
Here is a sort of version of the Caption Competition we see from time to time on TS.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/132797547/im-a-proud-landlord-who-houses-14-families-but-times-are-tough
From the
leechlandlord;"but I know landlords who will no longer admit to being landlords, and landlords who are selling up as they don't like how they are being portrayed, and they don't like how they are being treated by the Government.
and this gem;
"There is also the installation of heat pumps and insulation. I don't object to the insulation and draft stopping, but I do object to the heat pumps, which require ongoing maintenance costing around $5 a week. I have to spend $2500 for a heat pump compared to $10 for a fan heater from The Warehouse, which will do the same job. That's an unnecessary $10 a week for five years for the heat pump, plus interest."
Captions please, be nice.
Or not.
He veers between this was an easy way to get rich and pay no tax and onto how Labour is making it harder and it's all, so unfair.
Maybe the synonym of landlord is "entitled narcissist"?
If he was of average intelligence he would sell 2 of his properties and have no debt cost against his rent income. But then he would be paying more tax off his rent income and he seems to resent paying any tax, despite his wealth.
If he wanted to have his mortgage as a cost against rent income he could register a company, but a company has to pay tax on CG at sale.
The poor, poor man. Maybe he should get out of the landlord business and take up something he seems well-suited to – being a whinger and sad bastard.
Grinch hardly covers it!!!![angry angry](https://cdn2.thestandard.org.nz/wp-content/plugins/ark-wysiwyg-comment-editor/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angry_smile.png?x42494)
What is he on about? Heat pumps aren't a requirement, there are other ways to heat houses. If the room is small enough to be heated by a $10 fan heater from the Warehouse then install a fixed small heater.
@ 0.12kW /m2 a 2.4kw fan heater won't cut it in a >20m2 living room.
Landlords must provide one or more fixed heaters that can directly heat the main living room. The heater(s) must be acceptable types, and must meet the minimum heating capacity required for your main living room.
[…]
You can’t use an electric heater (except a heat pump) if the required heating capacity for the main living room is over 2.4 kW, unless you are ‘topping up’ existing qualifying heating that was installed before 1 July 2019.
https://www.tenancy.govt.nz/healthy-homes/heating-standard/
Yes Joe90 and another key point is this. The requirement is for 'fixed heaters'. a plug-in, ie movable, blower heater from The Warehouse is not going to meet this criteria. You can make plug in heaters fixed ie non movable but, horrors, some money needs to be spent to do this.
A response from Emily Write
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/renting/132800974/the-gravy-train-is-over-why-my-tiniest-violin-is-out-for-landlords
I had my upstairs heat pump serviced last week – as I do every year. It cost $90, and would be tax deductible for a landlord.
When an entire country has FAS.
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Jimmy Rushton
@JimmySecUK
"Children’s shoes for sale. Never worn.” Russian Telegram channel mocks the death of six-year-old Sophia Holynska who was killed in Russia's missile strike on Chernihiv yesterday. The post has nearly 47,000 "laughing" reactions from Russian social media users.
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1693362411384824285
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-social-media-mocks-ukraine-6-year-old-killed-strike-2023-8
Brian Cranston giving someone a campaign speech: who wants it?
YouTube short from the writers and actors strike