Aussie Tenants Mores the beans on their landlords of Hell – Realestate.com.au

From landlords who are only gardening in an adult diaper to attacking tenants and hiring spies on the street, Aussie rates have torn the dirt on their landlords out of hell.

One had even a vegan landlord who complained when their tenant cooked a steak.

“Landlords from hell are not uncommon in Australia,” said Money.com.au’s Finance Expert Fi Ahlstrom.

“But remember, only because you rent does not mean that you surrender your rights.

“You do not have to tolerate the landlord who is inland shipping, cutting the corners, ignoring repairs or reducing your rent unfairly.

“Every state has a government or rental authority where you can submit a formal complaint.” Ahlstron said that the best way to protect yourself was to keep everything in writing, including e-mails, text messages and photos or videos of the property, so if you have to submit a formal complaint to the government or rental authority of your state, you have the time stamped proof.

“If there is ever a time when you feel unsafe or exceed the behavior of your landlord, don’t hesitate to escalate it with the authorities,” said Ahlstrom.

With the help of Money.com.au, and after searching social media, there are some of the most extra needs that tenants have confronted in rental roulette.

And it’s not always about fungus and maintenance.

High steaks

Megan, 35, revealed that her landlord would complain about everything, from the smell of cooking steak to the glare of her TV.

“I rented an apartment in Brisbane for about three years,” she said.

“My landlord was a vegan at the time and hated that we cooked meat on our balcony BBQ.” He sent me several written warnings about the scent of steak that drove into his unity, which he called “repenting.”

“Then he started complaining about the sparkle of my TV, and said that my lights disturbed the neighbors’ peace after 8 p.m.

“It felt like you were living under a curfew.”

Megan said the landlord found something new every few months to complain.

“The last drop was when he demanded that my older mother did not park in the visitor parking park when she came to visit me,” she said.

“He told me that visitor places were only for ‘non-family guests’ and that they had to park on the street instead.”

Eat fruit

Glenn, 43, lived in a stock home in Brisbane with three friends when they started to note that food was missing in their fridge.

“Then things such as detergent, toothpaste and toilet paper also disappear,” he said.

“We all started to blame each other and even throw in extra money to cover what was missing.

“One day I came home from work sick in the middle of the day and I walked in to see that the landlord was in our machine.

“He just let himself in with the reserve key and made himself at home.

“Then it clicked when he came in all the time, our nicking equipment, the fridge robbed and who knows what else.

“I can’t remember exactly what went next, but we told him to be filled and break the lease.”

No real representation of the landlord

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Can’t do it unseen

A tenant who wanted to remain anonymous shared the amazing time that she saw her landlord gardening.

“I saw my landlord around gardening in just a mature diaper,” they said.

“She drove to the building and took her pants out to do gardening.

“It was the weirdest, most traumatic thing I have ever seen.”

The only photo of diapers we could find

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Dog disappeared

Another tenant who had moved to a duplex with three bedrooms on the Gold Coast was left to take care of the dog of their landlord.

“The landlords (a few) decided that they wanted to disappear for a whole year, but they had a small dog,” the tenant said.

“They asked us to take care of the dog, and I told them that I was not at ease because it was way too long and too much responsibility.

“They ignored my reaction and left their dog behind.

“They bought an automatic feeder and said it would be okay, plus their friend and pick up the shit.”

But not long after the landlords left, the dog never stopped barking constantly and with something that passed.

“If we put the dog out to go to the toilet, they would check the CCTV cameras and send a message to tell us to let the dog back because it was not an external dog,” the tenant said.

“They also had CCTV cameras that point outside their room and look at you while walking through the house.”

But it got worse.

“One night the dog got into the waste bin, tore everything out, ate something that made his stomach upset and exploded diarrhea everywhere in the house,” they said.

“We woke up with the worst scent ever, absolutely disgusting sh ** everywhere, and one of the roommates had already left for work, stepped over it and ignored it for us.

“I sent a message that it was not good enough to deal with this in our own house, and she got angry and said that I had no compassion for the dog that was clearly unwell.

“Anyway, we decided that we would not clean it up to take a position against our discomfort for the hundredth time.

“When the roommate came back, she thought it would be a good idea to place all the dirty, dirty paper towels and wipes in the back garden under the outside table where we were and where it stayed for a week.

“The dog would constantly piss on the couch, sh ** every second day and bark every minute of every day.”

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The tenant also revealed that “the landlords controlled our every movement”.

“We were not allowed to use the dishwasher because the ‘too much water used’, we were not allowed to use the washing machine at Hot Wash because it pulled too much force, we had to bring the pillows outside the outdoor cushions in the case of rain, and if we had forgotten that they would check the cameras and tell us to bring them in,” said the Tenant.

“They would call us if the dog was outside or if the blinds were closed. They were honestly so crazy.

“When we left, they asked us to mow the lawn. We did that, but he got angry with us because we didn’t sniff before we mow.”

The tenant said that although they felt sorry for the little dog, it was “the worst in the world that was so controlled in your own house”.

“They even listened to our conversations through their cameras, so we had to whisper when we were outside,” they said.

“It was just that crazy. I can’t believe it was real. We have so many bad memories from that house and those people.”

Come on in

A tenant who rented to the Gold Coast revealed that her landlords simply led themselves in randomly.

“I was eight months pregnant and it was in the middle of the day and I took a nap while my toddler slept. I only wore underwear,” she said.

“I woke up with the thought that my toddler had entered the room. No.

“The landlord and his wife were in my bedroom that measures the windows ‘in case they saw cheap curtains they liked’.”

She said that they then noticed, “Oh, sorry, didn’t try to wake you up.”

“I asked them to leave the Property Manager and Belgian and her answer was:” Well, they did something nice for you, so why are you complaining? ” she said.

“I then changed the lock, only to be abused for the ‘break of a rule’.

“To this day, who knows how often they had just let themselves in when I was not at home.”

Streetwarne

An NSW tenant revealed that although the building was “ok”, it was susceptible to fungus.

But the “landlord is terrible”.

“And the neighbor at 10 am is her little spy and the non -chosen street warlord,” they wrote on Shitrentals.com.

“Note to leave without land after three years because she didn’t like that we had pruned the overgrown garden.

“We didn’t like that we asked for maintenance.

“She appears to inspections with the desk itself and insisted that we had changed things in the house that the agent had corrected her that we had not done.

“She drives a lot at the building to ‘inspect’, speaks roughly to agents and tenants such as dirt.”

Landlord lives in Garage

Another NSW tenant who rented in Bexley revealed that on the day they moved, they noticed that the garage was locked and there were no keys to open the door.

“Garage is not excluded in the rental agreement … Day two, discover that Hoesplady lives with her pets in Garage – says it is only a month or two,” they said.

“Fast Vooruit a year, still lives there, with the help of our tools (water, electricity perhaps also gas) and they were walking a stove, fridge and had a bed there.

“They even installed Foxtel in the garage and refused to repair air conditioning.”

Street Spies

A Victorian tenant said that their landlord was the “worst landlord ever”.

“Landlord was an absolute nightmare, so rude, not repairing anything in the house when he did, they were Dodgy repairs,” they said.

“He would appear unannounced, ask for neighbors who have been to the house and keep an eye on me.

“Inspections would last 90 minutes and he would choose every detail and dot of fabric, so that traders also left the house without permission.

“Bullies Rea (broker) to get his way. Absolutely worst landlord ever!”

The Street has eyes (photo through the marrow / afp)

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Batsh*t Crazy

A tenant in South Australia said that their “landlord was completely crazy”.

“Exaggerated paranoid over every aspect of life (even had a padlock on the linen cupboard in case someone broke into and his sheets stole),” they wrote.

“Long history of domestic disputes reported to the police, even death threats about an apparent stolen frying pan.”

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Mentally defeated

A tenant in the law complained that their rental house was “moldy, infected and not insulated with mice”.

“It was as expensive as some rooms in the inner cities, but has no shops within walking distance and horrible access to public transport that leads to 90 minutes of living work traffic,” they wrote. “The landlords refused to move their furniture and would remain, often without warning.

“By the end of my time I was poor, sick, cold and mentally defeated.”

Drunk and disorderly

A tenant who rented in Nimbin, NSW, revealed that the owner appeared, with permission, drunk.

“And after I had seen that I had removed waste from the garden for the last 30 years,” good work “said and immediately went back to the property to increase the rent by $ 20,” they said.

“The new tenants tell me that they still have no bins and despite replacing the carpets and a little bit of the bathroom, the place is still rotten.”