The man, who has name suppression, was issued with three antisocial behaviour notices during his tenancy. Now he’s taken his landlord to the Tenancy Tribunal, saying the notices were unjustified and he was harassed by neighbours and landlord staff. The landlord, who also has name suppression, wanted the tenancy terminated because of the antisocial behaviour, which occurred on three instances. Antisocial behaviourThe first antisocial behaviour notice related to an incident on May 29 last year, when the tenant got into a physical fight with a person who was visiting him at the property. But the volume, persistence and intensity of this tenant’s behaviour was too much for the team, and required “far greater resourcing and specialist management than is sustainable in the long term”.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 07, 2026 21:32 UTC