Buyers of a Pāpāmoa Beach house needed a High Court order to remove the previous owner.

The quotes from the owner sound rather Sovereign Citizen to me, it seems we have a bit of that particular flavor of nuts here, unfortunately.

It sounds like a nightmare for the new owners.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
    2·
    9 days ago

    They were also unable to rent the property to service their mortgage, which placed them at risk of default.

    Hard to be sympathetic to either party.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nzOP
      2·
      7 days ago

      I’m no landlord fan either, but the whole system kinda falls over if owning a property doesn’t mean you actually own it, and the previous owner can just stay there indefinitely.