Training & Advisory . For NZ Property Management Offices
You make a hundred tenancy calls a week. How many are wrong?
A monthly training & advisory subscription for property managers who would rather know than guess
You didn’t go to law school. Nobody cares.
A MESSAGE FROM SARINA
Here's what I've noticed, working with property managers for as long as I have.
You're good at your job. Better than most of the people telling you how to do it. But deep down, there is a niggly feeling that when something goes curly, you might not measure up. And it isn't because you aren't sharp. It's because the ordinary work of applying tenancy law is a technical craft, and you were left to teach it to yourself as you went.
I think that's the wrong way round.
You should be able to walk into a tricky tenancy, hit something awkward, and know exactly where to take it. You should have somewhere to test your thinking before it becomes a Tribunal problem. You should have someone who has already read the case, sitting on standing brief, waiting for the question.
That's the property manager I'd like to help you become.
I built Tenancy Advisory for the property managers I already know, the ones holding the line in conversations landlords don't want to have, telling tenants the parts of the tenancy nobody wants to hear, doing the soft skills of attention and the hard skills of the law in the same breath. This subscription is my way of standing beside that work, properly and every month, instead of only when things have already gone wrong.
If any of this sounds like the office you'd like to run, choose your tier below and let's get to work.
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Sarina
Our Memberships
For proactive property managers who learn at their own pace. Monthly training, a case dissection and a strategic note land in your inbox. You run with it.
For offices that want a monthly seat at the table. Bring the awkward questions, get specific answers and walk out with a decision.
For principals who want an ongoing thinking partner on the commercial, operational and legal strategy of their business. Not for everyone. By invitation only.
Founding Member Price Lock
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The first 10 members across all tiers lock in their tier's launch price for as long as they stay subscribed.
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Founding Member Price Lock ✼ The first 10 members across all tiers lock in their tier's launch price for as long as they stay subscribed. ✼
What You’ll Learn
Real the Residential Tenancies Act properly, apply it confidently and stop guessing on the parts of the job that carries the most risk.
RTA Mastery
Handle the conversations that decide whether a tenancy holds together or ends up at the Tribunal, with owners, tenants and everyone in between.
Communication strategy
Slow the knee-jerk down, spot the pattern earlier, and make decisions that hold up when owners and tenants look over your shoulder.
Strategic Mindset
Prepare a matter properly, present it clearly, and hold your ground when challenged. Learn what will actually move the needle at the Tribunal or at mediation.
Tribunal Confidence
Handle the harder conversations with owners, compliance, budgets, difficult tenants, unrealistic expectations, without losing the relationship or your mind.
Managing Owners
Read the commercial and legal exposure you carries every day, from unclear PMAs to under-priced service, and price for the risk you are actually taking on.
Risk & Business Sense
Your Questions, Answered
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Because information about tenancy law has never been cheaper, and judgement about how to apply it has never been more valuable.
Every property manager in New Zealand now has access to the entire text of the Residential Tenancies Act, every Tribunal decision published since 2016, a dozen practitioner forums, and a chatbot that will confidently answer any tenancy question it is asked, including the ones it is answering wrong. The bottleneck stopped being information a long time ago. The bottleneck is knowing which answer applies to the situation in front of you, which parts of the Act the Tribunal actually enforces, and which "sensible" reading of a clause will cost you the hearing eighteen months later.
That kind of judgement takes fifteen years of tenancy practice to develop, and a specific temperament to teach well. That is what this subscription buys.
Each tier is priced against what the office would otherwise spend on the ordinary consequences of getting the law slightly wrong.
If it still feels expensive, that is a signal worth taking seriously, not that the subscription is wrong for the office, but that the current cost of guessing hasn't been priced yet. Reach out to Sarina and she will walk through the maths with your team. No obligation.
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No. This is an education-first and advisory-second subscription service. The advisory piece is strictly limited to non-reserved areas of legal work under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006.
Sarina Gibbon is an enrolled barrister and solicitor of the High Court who has chosen not to hold a current practising certificate. She does not represent members at the Tenancy Tribunal or perform any reserved work. She teaches the craft: how the Residential Tenancies Act applies, how well-run offices approach it, and how to think clearly when a tenancy goes curly.
If a matter crosses into reserved work, you will be referred to practising lawyer, with a member discount on bespoke work done under a solicitor's supervision.
Full scope, limits and disclosures are included in the subscription terms.
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Yes, deliberately, carefully, and in the places where it belongs.
Tenancy Advisory is a technology-enabled people-first business. It is only capable of performing at the standard members pay for because AI is used with discernment behind the scenes: to ideate, to finesse drafts, to organise and pattern-match across large volumes of case material, and to accelerate the research that used to gobble up a working day. That work sits in the engine room, not on the front line.
What does not touch AI is the front-end value the subscription is built to deliver. The mastery of tenancy law, the strategic thinking, the business advisory, the read on how a conversation should be handled, the judgement about which cases matter and why; none of that is delegated to a machine. It is still Sarina, in every session, on every question, on every Memo. If a member is paying for judgement, a member is receiving judgement, from the person whose name is on the door.
The distinction is deliberate. Information about tenancy law has become abundant and cheap; judgement about how to apply it has become the scarce good. AI is used to make the abundant work faster; the scarce work is done by hand.
For full transparency, Sarina's chosen AI tools currently include Perplexity, Protege, Harvey and Motion. The list is reviewed regularly, and any tool used to support member work is chosen for its handling of confidentiality, defensibility, and quality of output.
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Not as a pause, no; but the mechanics amount to the same thing.
The Standard and The Practice can be cancelled any time with one month's notice, for any reason, no forms or retention calls. Chambers is a six-month minimum term, because the work at that tier is genuinely bespoke and both sides need runway to do it properly. After the six months, it moves to the same one-month-notice basis.
When you're ready to come back, you rejoin at whatever the tier is priced at on that day. Case Files and Memos published while you were away stay with the members who were subscribed for them which keeps things fair for everyone who kept the lights on.