Several customers of deregistered Perth home builder, Nicheliving, claim items have been taken from their unfinished homes. It comes after the embattled company agreed to give up its building registration for a decade, in a deal with the state government, which waived its insurance liability.
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00:00Are you working for Niche?
00:04Nah.
00:05After four years, Sarah's Niche living home is still unfinished.
00:13And now, another hurdle.
00:15After terminating her contract with Niche and finally getting her keys, Sarah's air
00:20conditioning unit was missing.
00:22So I don't know when it happened.
00:24The company told her she missed a payment and therefore didn't own the unit.
00:28It's beyond ridiculous, to be honest.
00:32Just a constant nightmare.
00:33And the nightmare seems to continue and continue with no end.
00:37So hopefully it will be ending soon.
00:40Niche Living lost its building registration earlier this month, so now it's up to the
00:44more than 200 customers to find new builders to finish their homes.
00:49But homeowners still had to terminate their contracts before Niche handed over the keys.
00:55They didn't say for sure that it's they who took it, but who else has the keys to the
01:01house at that point, because I haven't signed the termination then.
01:04Niche customer Abhishek noticed his oven was missing on Monday.
01:09It was later returned after he contacted the company.
01:13He's now changing his locks.
01:16I know they have legal rights to come into property until the contract is in place, but
01:21they have no ethical right because I've paid for it.
01:24The Premier wants police to investigate.
01:26Niche Living have to get out of the way.
01:28They have to leave these people to get on with their lives.
01:32That is the arrangement that we put in place and that is what I expect them to do.
01:36Niche Living has been contacted for comment.