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Landlords told to pay $38k after man bitten by rat, wall collapses in 'barely habitable' house Newshub 2 hrs ago © getty Representation image A pair of Kiwi landlords have been ordered to pay a tenant tens of thousands of dollars for failing to solve a major pest infestation, fix a collapsed wall or empty a pungent septic tank at their "barely habitable" rental. The Tenancy Tribunal told Victor and Lilly Yeoh to hand over more than $38,000 for ignoring an order to carry out remedial work on the damp, uninsulated house, the whereabouts of which are suppressed. The tenant first raised con...

iSTOCK The house was infested with rodents that lived in the walls and ceiling. (File photo) They would regularly get inside the house and leave droppings or ruin the tenant’s and her flatmate’s belongings. The tenant told the tribunal the constant scrabbling noise from inside the walls kept her awake at night, and she had found both dead and alive animals inside the house. The constant presence of the pests often “frightened” and “repulsed” the tenant, she said. On one occasion, when her flatmate tried laying bait, he was bitten on the finger by a rat. Wiring within the hous...