15 Hilda St. Two tenants have been murdered. Eerie coincidence?

Two people brutally stabbed to death in Rotorua in the past five years lived at flats at Fenton Park's 15 Hilda St.
Hemi Hohepa, whose body was found a week ago near Whakarewarewa Forest, lived four flats down from the apartment where pregnant 21-year-old Tanya Burr was stabbed 15 times in September 2002.
The murders have left tenants living in the block of flats, known as the Hilda St Apartments, with mixed feelings. Some say they now feel uneasy and want to move while others say the flats are a friendly and cheap place to live.
The flats have an Eastside gang symbol tagged on the front. One of the door bells has the words "curfew bell" written above the door bell - a pointer perhaps for police checking on people on court bail. Although Mr Hohepa wasn't murdered there, he was last seen leaving the flats shortly after midnight last Thursday with a mystery man police suspect is linked to the killing.
A tenant who did not want to be named, said there was a bad feeling at the flats until Thursday when they were blessed.
"It was like the whole world was lifted off the place. The sun was shining and [the blessing] seemed to lighten up the place. It's no longer damp and I know this sounds funny, but it even smells better."
She said before Mr Hohepa died, there was a community spirit starting to build. Neighbours swapped milk and sugar and she shared her home-made bread.
She said Mr Hohepa made a makeshift basketball hoop on the balcony of one of the flats and played with her children.
"He was starting to settle down and was spending a lot more time at home."
Miss Burr's mother, Val Burr, from Palmerston North, said if she had the money, she would buy the flats and bulldoze them.
News of a second murder at the flats made her "blood run cold".

Miss Burr's killer, 17-year-old John Wharekura, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 years non-parole.
Detective Sergeant John Wilson, who worked on the case and is on the team investigating Mr Hohepa's death, said the link with the flats was a coincidence but made for "a sense of deja vu".
Mr Wilson said the transient nature of people who lived at the flats meant no one who lived there when Miss Burr was killed lived there now.
The block of 12 two-storied flats used to be one property under the number 15. They were sold five years ago and were split into two properties of six flats - now numbered 17 and 15. Tenants pay about $160 a week rent.
One tenant, Terry Blewett, said he liked the flats so much, he had lived there twice in the past 20 years. He recalled another murder there in the late 1980s - possibly at the same flat where Miss Burr lived - involving a woman killed by a hitchhiker she picked up from Taupo.
He said the flats suited him and were well built, considering the cheap rent.

However his partner, Charmaine Heke, wasn't too fond of them and said it did bother her that two tenants had been murdered.
Another tenant, who said she was a cousin of Mr Hohepa's, didn't want to talk about the two murders other than to say "it's not the flats' fault".
Ray White spokesman Gary Pollard said the apartments had been on the market but were no longer for sale. He said the owner wanted to remain anonymous.