A property investor advocate says landlords should consider lowering their rents, rather than offering incentives. 

Changes in the market have seen landlords offer prospective tenants sweeteners like grocery vouchers and free weeks of rent to try to lure them in. 

But Sarina Gibbon from the Auckland Property Investors' Association told Andrew Dickens she's not sure incentives work. 

She says if you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig, and the better option is for landlords to look realistically about what they're expecting for a property. 

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A property investor advocate says landlords should consider lowering their rents, rather than offering incentives.&nbsp;
Changes in the market have seen landlords offer prospective tenants sweeteners like grocery vouchers and free weeks of rent to try to lure them in.&nbsp;
But Sarina Gibbon from the Auckland Property Investors' Association told Andrew Dickens she's not sure incentives work.&nbsp;
She says if you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig, and the better option is for landlords to look realistically about what they're expecting for a property.&nbsp;
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Sarina Gibbon: Auckland Property Investors' Association Spokesperson on landlords offering incentives to prospective tenants

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