Tenants living in a mice-infested West Auckland hovel where rodent droppings let off a bad smell every time the oven was turned on have won a $4000 payout.
Tenants Hamish Fowler and Curtis Messina took photos to their Tenancy Tribunal hearing showing "considerable mice excrement" littering the Coatesville rental's kitchen cupboard.
The mice ate food in the pantry before urinating and pooing under the oven, causing an "offensive smell" every time it was used, tribunal adjudicator Belinda Harvey said.
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The tenants also produced evidence of holes in the rental's walls, a bent structural beam, deck without railing and broken glass ranch slider, Harvey said.