Looking for a new place to live isn’t an easy thing. It not only comes with financial stress but also with the responsibility of picking a niceplacewhere you’ll be able to live normally, preferably withoutanykind ofinfestations.Yet, it isn’tsuch an easytask.Some landlords are pretty good at hiding nasty stuff until you agree to rent a place, and thenstufflike mold,rodents, and bugscome out.
Luckily, there are some people in theworldwho are ready to take down lousy landlords. For example,ex-tenants whowarn future ones about the place’s awfulness in a creative andkind ofmysterious way.
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How should you react when you find a scary note telling you to run in the place you were planning to live in?
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A couple in Brisbane was doing a rental inspection at a place they were planning to rent when they came across a warning from previous tenants that said to run away as fast as they could
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Recently, a couple inBrisbane, the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, went for a rental inspection at a $480-per-week apartment.
In April,itwasreportedthat the median rent in Brisbane is around $636 per week for three-bedroom houses and around $570 per week for units. So, the OPs were planning to pay lower-than-average weekly rent, which mightlook likequite a good choice.
But the rental inspection changed their minds. And it did it not in the way it typically does. Typically, during this kind oftour,possible tenants find apartment flaws thatscarethem off.But in this case,it seemed that the major flaws werehidden, as what warned the couplewasn’tthe flaws.
Rather, it was a warning about them, written in red ink and hidden in a cupboard. Ifyou’rea Shining fan or aStephen Kingfan, you cankind ofcompare it to the famous“Redrum”writing. Only the writing in this storywasn’trelated to supernatural horror but real-life horror instead. To be more specific, the horror of terrible landlords.
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This note was basically a bullet point list of the worst things about the apartment, from mold to, as we said, anawfullandlordwho likes to snoop around,doesn’tfix the stuffhe’ssupposed to, and so on. The note concluded with a phrase:“worst rental experience ever. RUN,”which, well,doesn’tsound promising, does it?
Even if the note looked like it was from a famous horror story, itwasn’tso bad for this couple.While,yes,theylost quite a cheap apartment,theydefinitelydodged a bullet of mold,cockroaches, and an annoying landlord.The ex-tenants, who went out of their way to write the warning,surelydid them a solid.
People online fully agreed with this sentiment. Some even suggested that everyone should start leaving reviews about their terrible rental properties to warn others about scammy landlords.
You might wonder why being a landlord is such a hated profession. Well, it all comes down to severalthings. First, people tend nottolike landlords due to power dynamics. People in this profession tend to hold quite a lot of power over tenants regarding their living situation, which can make some people feela tadhelpless.
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Secondly andmore commonly, some landlords are justvery badat theirjobs. Just take a look at the one fromtoday’sstory — his ex-tenants warned others that he likes to visit the apartment unannounced, andhedoesn’tfix anything at the place, which sounds like a mold, cockroach, and mice nightmare. And he issurelynot the only one like that. In fact, there are worse landlords than him.So, peoplesimplytend tonot likeotherswhodon’tdo their jobs and neglect the peoplethey’resupposed to serve.
And when peoplecan’tafford such high prices, some landlords heartlessly throw them out onto the streets, which creates another social problem ofhomelessness.
So, as we and other people online havealreadydecided —warningpeople about your poor rental experiences isagoodthing, as you might save others from suffering the way you did.Ultimately,shouldn’twe all strive to do good for others to make this worlda slightly better place, huh?
When the couple posted this note online, it soon gathered internet folks’ attention, who praised the ex-tenants for their move
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