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The Rental Market Here Is DOGSHIT
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[EDIT 20 hours later]
Wow I was not expecting such a strong response! Maybe I should have in hindsight though, we're all in the same dogshit boat. Some of you have urged me to report the property to NSW Fair Trade and rest assured, I have. Thank you in particular to u/Somebody_Anybody_ who posted the Residential Tenancies Act which helped me outline exactly what I needed to point out in my report. We'll see what happens next I suppose.
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I'm upset and just here to rant and whinge.
Today my partner and I went to an inspection for what the ad called a "studio". $375 a week, a hop skip and a jump away from Glendale shops.
When we got there the spokesperson seemed embarrassed to be there, wouldn't meet our eyes and mumbled everything he said so it was hard to understand him. Walked us down the driveway to the GRANNY FLAT... the ad online said absolutely nothing about it being a granny, but okay whatever, I've been to plenty of 'surprise granny flat' inspections before and they've looked okay...
We draw closer and it looks like the outdoor bathroom has no outward facing wall. Spokesperson explains that you shut it with a garage roller door. Whole bathroom is painted black in the same paint as the outside of the building, save for the brand new toilet chocked up on bricks that seems to have been installed that same week.
We turn the corner to the rest of the apartment, and- it's a shed. It's literally just a shed. It's a dirt floor and dirty wall spackle and it all smells like mold and open sewerage, with just enough space that you could maybe park your Nissan Micra in there if you knocked all the walls down.
Partner and I politely leave as fast as we can- once we're back in the car my partner suddenly realizes there was NO KITCHEN. I think back and go wait- there had been a small pantry-sized nook in the entryway with a bench and a small sink. No lights. That's what they were considering a kitchen. No oven or stovetop, no drawers, no cupboards. You get a sink in the pantry because that's all you're worth. Really??

My partner was chuckling all the way home about how ridiculous it was but I was, tbh, spittin mad. Almost four hundred dollars a week for a stinking hole in the ground and it doesn't even have a stovetop. OR A FLOOR for that matter. I'm mostly angry because this is how its been for years and, for me its just broke the camel's back. I used to think our current living situation, which we have been trying to escape from for YEARS now, was only marginally better than homelessness, but apparently landlords just keep finding ways to shave that line thinner and thinner. Something's got to give.

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honestly you should have ripped shreds off the agent, absolutely disgusting he'd even list such a shithole

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He’s the representative, the real estate industry wonders why they have such a poor standing in the community absolutely no integrity, money at the expense of others at all costs

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