Welcome to Emily Writes Weekly, I am sorry to nail you with TWO housing related posts in a week but trust me, you’ll see why I had to do another post. I peaked too early! I didn’t know how bad things could get.

Unlike my last post I’m not going into a lot of commentary, because I’m sick in bed and so Friday Night Chats is going to move to Sunday. I have some kind of…chest thing? Wish me a speedy recovery please! I’m sorry to anyone really looking forward to Friday Chats. Sunday Chats will be just as good.

So without further ado…

The Coldest Day of the Year

It’s Christchurch property investment consultant Ana Meredith! Hard to pick just one from Meredith because she’s literally channeling a capitalist villain 24-7. She had ten houses at one point, who knows how many she has now. She has helpfully shared with her Instagram followers how to pass on their tax to their tenants. Because whose job should it be to ensure she gets more, more, more, more? Tenants! Enough is never enough.

Call the UN we have a human rights violation on our hands!

This is political prisoner Nick Gentle. Now, what he’s been through…I don’t know about you but it bought me to tears. He owns five blocks of flats and oh wow, I don’t know how to say this, brace yourself: Unless he sells some of those flats in the next four years he may have to pay tax some on them. I mean, have you ever heard anything worse in your life?

“It is understood that part of that includes investigating whether the rule change involves a breach of landlords’ human rights, including the ability to own their own properties, and the ability to make money.” - Property investors petition for reversal of rule changes.

Every property investor who unironically shared this image

I thank you for your service, you truly do carry the hahahaha omg sorry I’m choking to death.

Tax is a holocaust

Finally, I saved the best slash worst till last. Someone probably wrote this poem as a joke, but what is beautiful about it is that it got shared in a Women in Property Investing group quite seriously. That’s the part I love.

Now, I hope all of this has made you think more about the plight of property investors. I would like to help you improve your language:

I would also like to say as a palate cleanser - I’ve had so many messages like the one below this week. I know it feels utterly mind-boggling as a renter to be reading the comments of property investors, but - hope is on the horizon. And I know you’re scared your landlord will put up the rent, and you know they probably well and I wish I could work out a way to stop that happening…but…please know I’ve had a few messages from landlords saying they welcome the changes and will not be increasing rent. Hopefully these landlords can speak out publicly so others know there’s another way you can choose to be. You can treat your tenants like human beings not ATM machines. You can recognise that just like everyone else you have to pay tax. You can stop expecting families with so much less than you to subsidise your income! Who knew?!

I also just got sent this from a reader (thank you D!) I have included it because I think this letter writer is spot on.