A Whanganui couple are devastated after burglars stole thousands of dollars worth of property from their red-stickered home on Bastia Hill.
Mark and Nichola Goodier's Shakespeare Rd home was deemed uninhabitable after a bank slipped and a corner of the house dropped during the June 2015 flood. Mark has since been battling EQC to seek a higher payout for repairs.
There was not room for all their possessions in the small house the Goodiers are renting so many were left in the Bastia Hill house.
Their son Louis said the burglary, which Nichola discovered on Thursday, had his parents "at the end of their tether".
"Mum went to the house to find stuff on the driveway and the house was open," Louis said.