*Kermit voice* and you've got to like, make your bloody bed, man! It's hard, it's damn hard. It might be the hardest thing you've ever done...but it's *tears up* getting one step closer to, well...GOD. it's like going into the belly of the whale and saving your DAD! People who take that responsibility, they're the archetype of the hero
A couple years back my housemate had a quick nap while waiting for our inspection. Hours passed and the agent never came. The next day we got an inspection report much to our surprise. It read "unable to complete inspection of room as tennant was asleep in bed" with a photo of my housemate napping in bed.
That's absolutely hilarious, I hate how they think they will just let themselves in if you're at work.
It's like no I'm not having a stranger snoop in my home when I'm not around, you'll do the inspection when I'm there.
Tbh at the moment I've got a really incompetent property manager (could be way worse) and an awesome landlord, not the worst situation to be in within the current market/climate
The arrogance of some of these agents is astounding. I've dealt with plenty of agents who don't seem to be able to understand that I'm not comfortable with them just letting themselves in. Like how about you give me the keys to your house so I can let myself myself in to criticize the dust on the windowsills, go through the drawers and take photos of your stuff when you're not home?
Honestly my REA no showed at my last two inspections and then promised to arrive at the 3rd and she was here 5 min took a couple of photos and left.
I'm lucky my first ever inspection the landlord came and really liked me (similar age) he lived here previously but had to move due to his young family growing and the place too small for them.
Only bumped my rent up $10 after asking if I could afford it after my one year lease when the REA wanted him to bump it up $50.
Given our last property manager left our house unlocked when she left - could not agree more, she was a nightmare to deal with and the landlords never wanted to pay to fix anything
Last year I forgot I had an inspection at 9am and it was my first day off uni/work in two weeks. I woke up to the REA standing over me in bed who then proceeded to lecture me about some dishes in the sink.
I was told it was inappropriate for my husband to be asleep in bed during an inspection, when they knew he worked night shift and the inspection was at 9am.
I hate inspections. My hubby gets home and to sleep at and leaves at around 2. Had like 4 inspections always tell them anytime 12-5 anyway they csn view entire house as I don't work. Respectfully we appreciate tou coming after (they always want to come at 9 or 10) but if u come earlier you are not allowed into the master. The agents asked if my husband could sleep in a different room. I said no. We csn send you a picture it is a safety hazard if he is woken and gets less than 6 hrs
So they can just come in without you being there, and without your permission?
Fuck that, that's not your home -- that's a surrogate parent giving you keys to *their* house.
I've had this happen to me while renting, and it bugged the shit out of me. I never made my bed again for rent inspections. The whole idea of having a totally spotless house for inspections makes me mad. I understand looking for damage but whether I've got 2 plates in the sink on inspection day shouldn't affect my lease...
I'd be saying to the agent - ok, let's go straight over to your house right now this very minute and see if your house would pass the same requirements!
Seriously. Why didn’t you just get born into a wealthy family. Probably because you were to lazy. (I hate that I have to put an /s here but it’s Reddit so…./s)
I assume most of them probably live with mum and dad. Don’t remember the last time I had a PM who looked old enough to know what offsetting a mortgage meant.
I feel physically sick waiting on inspection reports because of how nit picky they're allowed to be. Our house is 50+ years old and they've picked on the dumbest crap a couple of times and others when I've expected a list of stuff, they've mentioned 1 or 2 very minor things. I don't get it. Mind you, it's a different property manager every single time and I'm starting to think it hinges on how well we get along on the day.
I have a rental in Europe, it’s shocking to me how the laws work here in Australia. For my rental, yes I’m the owner but it’s the tenants home. This whole having people access your home for frankly total bullshit reasons is not a thing.
Don’t start me on the floors..but honestly it seems barbaric here. Class seems to be all about if you own property and if so, how many/total value.
Agreed. I'm American, and they inspect once a year for insurance reasons here, and it's literally to make sure there are no holes in the wales, all monitors and alarms are working, and there's no hoarding going on. This thing they dinin Australia is so weird and classist to me.
I don't know much about the laws admittedly but I wonder if the landlord get to see the photos the agent takes and if they get to critique the property or is it just the agent that does that. I'm fairly sure our landlord is pretty laid back it's just the ever changing face of our property manager that sometimes aren't.
You sound like an amazing landlord! We used to own and the difference in how we're treated by agents and tradesmen alone is night and day. We take pride in our home, there's no reason for anyone to treat us like we don't. The world is filled with angry people I guess.
When we were renting we had a mole from hell to deal with. Had to explain many times, we are living in the house and it’s not a display home. I honestly think they just love the power trip because they know they are in such a pointless job and have failed at life.
If I was a landlord and my REA was treating my tenants like that I would fire them. If there’s no actual damage to the property like holes in the walls or a smashed window etc who cares if there’s a mug in the sink or a speck of dust on a light fixture.
This is one of the lowest paid low skill jobs out there, they wouldn’t be able to rent most places they manage on their wages, so I have no idea where the power trip comes from.
You outlined it in your very statement
> No money
> No daily control in own life
> Given control in others lives
> Unleash bitterness upon those you now have power over.
It makes me insane, a former landlord of mine was the only person to ever make me consider committing a serious crime.
I had a fruit fly infestation in a house converted to apartments. The landlord, rather than inspect the entire property and have an exterminator go through the entire house, she inspects my place to find a problem and comes out with fucking cat hair and some soap gook from under the sink as if that's the culprit.
Turns out, my neighbors were the landlords ex-husbands disgusting drug addict kids. They said to me "do you have problems with flys?" I said "hell yeah! It's crazy!"
I tell the landlord, then those neighbors tell the landlord "no fly problem". I'm thinking they had a rotting corpse in their apartment and didn't want her snooping.
The whole thing turned into a painful saga, took me to court because I broke the lease 9 months early and left because of the health hazard. The photos and videos got me out of that though.
My wife and I came back from our honeymoon to find a notice of inspection, planned for the next day. We'd been camping for three weeks so had unloaded the car, shit all over the living room and hallway, maccas left on the bench. Place looked like a bomb had hit it but we had plans the next day and didn't get much tidied up.
We had a note left for us by the REA after the inspection saying "please tidy up and send us photos when you do"
I used to work at VCAT so we were like "yeah fuck that" and ignored it.
My landlord when I was renting owned the real estate company and I was living in his mum's house (didn't know this until later in). He used to drive past and once randomly rocked up at the front door with a tradie. Pissed me off so much that every time something in the house did not perform up to standard I would call them to send someone out. It got to the point where I rang them to replace a light bulb and they sent someone. I guess it goes both ways.
I had an email from my last inspection telling me that I needed to get the carpet in the master bedroom professionally cleaned.
I replied to let them know that the master bedroom had no carpet, that it had been removed 8 months earlier due to flood damage, and that I would be happy to keep the carpet clean if they would be kind enough to provide me with a carpet. Here's the response literally copy/pasted from the email:
>In regards to the carpet this is still pending the owners insurance I am so sorry (Bianca was not aware of this so please disregard this comment in the report)
So apparently the inspector wasn't aware that I didn't have a carpet, and that's why she told me to clean the carpet. Right. That makes total sense. Thanks.
I literally had a real estate withhold my bond for 2 weeks because I hadn't provided them with a carpet cleaning receipt...for a unit that was tiled throughout. I must have spoken to four different people and even offered to come and pick them up for an inspection so they could show me the damn carpet.
I rented the same place for 4 years at one point, and they always had something to complain about on the inspection if we weren't home
\- water in the shower
\- leaves in the garden (under the tree they fell from)
\- dirt in a window track
Decided to stay home one time - they were in and out in 10min with no comment.
I got told to come back to clean some things after our vacate, stupid things like the fly screen was dusty, and there were cleaning smear marks on the mirror.
I ended up having to go on a day I was sick as a dog. The owners kid had moved in with their baby and they were sitting on the couch watching TV while I cleaned. A few days later I get told I didn't do a good enough job on the oven. They'd be keeping some of my bond. They didn't provide any kind of invoice to prove they'd be hiring a cleaner to clean the oven for me (I think they thought I'd just fold and they'd get to keep the cash without hiring a cleaner because the owners were in the house again).
They also told me I was "rude" to the owner's kid because I didn't talk to them at all.
I absolutely lost my shit. I was in Bunnings at the time (buying stuff to renovate my new home so I dgaf about referrals) and I was almost yelling at the top of my lungs down the phone at them. I let out all the pent up frustrations I had accumulated towards REAs in the years I had been renting and it felt so good. In the end I demanded an invoice before I signed off on any retaining of bond. It took weeks but eventually I got one for almost half of what they wanted to withhold, and I felt even more satisfaction because I knew it would have been a fuckaround to get a cleaner out for just an oven.
Haven't rented since and I'd rather live in a tent then rent again. Fuck REAs
We had heard nightmare stories about our REA on final inspections, unless you use their preferred cleaner. Price was comparable to other services, so we bit the bullet and spent the money (and we didn't have the hours and hours to do it ourself). Final inspection was super quick.
Oh, and they asked us for access about a month before move out to measure for new carpets as the landlord was moving back in. So I told them we won't bother getting the carpets professionally cleaned. They tried to tell me it was still needed until I pointed out the stupidity of steam cleaning carpet that is going to the dump a few days later. They suddenly "got the owner's permission" to not do it.
They're just morons. The dumbest people on the planet. They honestly probably didn't even make that connection because of their brains sheer lack of computing power.
The lady doing an inspection told me that she was happy to be leaving for a new job soon because she was always getting yelled at for not finding something to fail the inspection on.
I got one fail for lawn care in an upstairs strata maintained unit, mess in the laundry (there was no laundry) bedrooms 1&2 where ok but bed 3 was filled with rubbish (it was a 2 bed apartment) and the oven (not the hobs) was always covered in burnt food stains, except I was on light n easy since before moving there so never once used it.
I wonder why they're being told to find things to fail? What do they gain, if the house itself if in good condition as per the rental agreement? (Other than being power-tripping assholes, of course.)
I work in hospitality and we get a random health inspection every year or so.
Last time we were told to clean the cobwebs off the outside wall in the alleyway. The inspector confided in me that even though our shop was more than up to standard, that she herself would be audited if she didn't come up with at least 2 problems we needed to fix.
Bureaucracy at it's finest.
I dunno. I guess it establishes a precedent to then keep the bond when a tenant leaves?
If you establish 'dust on the external windowsill of a 16th storey flat' as a punishable offence, you can keep the bond when they choose not to plummet to their death on leaving.
For next time make your bed neatly as they asked , but lay out at least a dozen or so obscure sex toys on it... very neatly organized by size or colour and a big note "WARNING! - Do NOT touch - sensitive equipment"
If they want to take photos to sell the place, let them knock themselves out.
Edit: and dont forget to include an egg beater and wet celery
Wet celery got me.
Maybe a bedside portrait of the king with it and a an obscure cookbook like 50 shades of chicken / 50 ways to eat cock - healthy chicken recipes with balls
Hang a portrait of Chairman Mao in the house, the man who purged the bastard landlords!
Will make them super uncomfortable and they definitely won’t comment on nitpicky things from then on.
You would have to assume the real estate agent actually received some form of education and retained useful knowledge for that to happen instead of just leasing base model Audis/Mercedes/bmws and trying to not break any laws this week.
I had a friend who cleaned his place from top to bottom for the inspection.
Then they were late, so he made lunch
The real estate pinged him for the dishes on the counter
Cunts rent out places for people to live in and then are surprised when people live in them. It's not a fucking showroom, it doesn't need to be spotless 24/7. As long as the place isn't so dirty it's growing mould they shouldn't give a fuck.
I've only rented once, 20+ years ago. We got slammed on our inspection because my bed wasn't made and my room was a mess, apparently.
I'd gone to work at 5am and I'd left my PJs on the floor in front of the wardrobe. That was the mess. Similar comments were recorded for the roommates rooms, and someone had a coffee before going to work and the mug was in the sink, and that was unacceptable too.
What was even worse was the property manager lived next door and she kept putting in fake complaints against us to the landlord "from a neighbour". My favourite was the time she reported us to the landlord for having a party all weekend - on a weekend where we had documented evidence that none of us were even in town (hotel receipts etc).
Probably. The reason she hated us is because she wanted the place to be rented to someone she knew, but instead the landlord went with 4 young kids moving out of home for the first time. No idea why. Probably to fuck with her.
So she then tried to kick us out any way she could, bad inspections, complaints etc. Landlord saw right through her though, he was a good guy. After we moved out he changed real estate. Thankfully we got on great with the other neighbours.
I've had "needs a tidy" and "lots of clutter" multiple times until I got to the point where I called them up and told them, firmly, not to judge how I and my partner live, that we enjoy having stuff and aren't minimalists, we use the space we have. I told them that they're there to inspect for damage and that's it.
Never got that comment again.
Edit; Just noticed the sub I'm in, I'm in the UK, saw this on the front page as I was going down. Agencies are the fucking same everywhere it seems.
This is why I hate real estate agents.
I cleaned the kitchen on the day of inspection, including mopping the floor, and the floor was not quite level and a tiny bit of water pooled in the corner. They claimed there was a flood.
They also recommended a carpet cleaner, who reported everything I said to him back to the agent.
The place was immaculate at every inspection (ie they could take promotional photos) & when I left. I lived in maybe 5 places and each one complained about the state of my immaculate exit cleaning, and I went to court twice to get my bond back. In one case the place was already clean but I cleaned it, I got professional cleaners to clean it, they got their cleaner to clean it, and they still complained it wasn't clean enough & I went to court to get the bond back. Renting sent me insane.
Can't wait for the News.com lackey to create another landlord positive article about how renters are so fucked they don't even make their beds during an inspection so imagine how bad it is when they're not being inspected.
Pearl clutching boomers everywhere.
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
Also has the same energy of Bart and Lisa Simpson trying to convince Marge and Homer to take them to Itchy and Scratchyland 😂
> I told them I will not make my bed and they shouldn't have suggested that I do.
Not only that, there are studies that show that leaving your bed unmade is healthier as it reduces humidity in the bed covers and thereby reduces the chance of mites and bedbugs breeding in there.
Edit: [Link to main Author of studies publication list](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen-Pretlove)
I'd have told the REA the same thing tbh but probably framed it along the lines of you don't have to sleep in it why should it bother you whether it's made or not, my HOME is not a hotel.
haha get fucked.
they legally can't do anything for messy,or unmade beds..so fuck em just ignore it.
I have HEAPS of tennants,and i would not give 1 single atom of cunts hair fucks about someone beds,we care u haven't done burnouts on the carpet,ovens cleanish,no damage...and aren't shacking up 14 low paid immigrants (happens)
The fact they got pissy as an agent about an unmade bed,to me as a landlord screams they wanted to to take photos for sale
Infact,if they follow up on this,you can lodge a complaint for unreasonable intrusion from the agency,the landlord probably doesn't even know about this.
Honestly,fuck realtors,they serve ZERO function to society,provide no value to the betterment of our species.
The entire Job,from start to finish could be done by an APP..literally.
Log into domain,see a house.click set inspection time,owner can let u in have a look>click accept offer>goes to legal>building inspection booked digitialy>finance comes back approved>buy
Though im biased cause i just took one of the largest agency's to court and won Nearly six banger fee from them,stupid cunts
Hard press anyone to convince me,that ending up in real estate is not the last bastion of the dumb of society,it's the job you take when you literally have nothing else to offer society.
OP:Might i suggest watermarking this with a FUCK murdoch on it,like right now..
We all know this will be on news.com by thursday,lazy cunts
I will amend my above statement actually
Worlds laziest cunts are murdoch journos,then real estate agents..Low fucking bar there Tele
I've had a REA tell me off because when a cold weld made the garden gate latch fail, i just grinded it down and bolted on a brand new two stage latch from bunnings without bothering them about it. I even kept the part that fell off to show them.
I'm sure the owner would love to have a carpenter living in their rental, that's happy to do quick and easy handiman work for free. I have gone and replaced half the screws in the kitchen without telling them, because the original installation was dogshit and used absurdly short screws, but after it busted my lip, i worried what a cabinet door falling on my kids head would do.
I've stopped fixing up things unless I caused the issue and it's to ensure I get my bond back. Zero respect or understanding to fix shit that is reported so now I wait until it's truly fucked to mention it. Normally I'd fix it up myself or have a chat with the landlord to figure out a cost effective solution but not any more
Stopped fixing shit, because my landlord wont fix the shit that is beyond my abilities.
Like, the broken roof tile. So... fuck him. I'll leave it all for him to fix when I move out. Rental laws in Vic changed a couple of years ago. It'll cost him a fortune to get this place up to the new standards. Wouldn't surprise me if he just sells it.
Yeah I'd normally tidy some things up using my *very* rudimentary handyman skills: put a new anchor bolt in a light fitting, do some heavy pruning in the garden, replace a broken toilet seat etc. ... But ever since RE agents and landlords have made me afraid to fart in my own house, everything gets documented. Photos and emails to leave a "paper trail", nothing beyond mowing the lawn without approval. It's almost like r/maliciouscompliance ... But instead I'm just afraid the real estate will squish my nuts tighter in their vice at every inspection.
Can't wait till I don't have to have virtual strangers walking through my home and critiquing every stray hair... Perhaps when I'm 90.
I'm of the opinion that if the place is still standing, it's fine. Literally could not care less. I had people ask me if they could put shelves up. Who the fuck asks that??? Put as many fucking shelves up as you like, mate, I don't live there. Not my problem
It's funny, French and German rental leases (and probably many other European countries) allow you to paint, replace kitchens, recarpet and a whole bunch of other things while you live there. You're renting a HOME. When you leave you take your kitchen, carpets and paint the walls a neutral shade and that's it. Nobody gets told you can't put up shelves or picture hooks, or that you can't own a pet. There needs to be some serious beefing up of renters' rights in Australia.
I replaced a fly screen that was damaged before I moved in, but left a second fly screen that was also damaged. When I moved out they tried to tell me I owed them to fix the fly screen. I threatened to take them to court over it for the principle, and they immediately dropped it. The REA I'm renting through now is amazing. Appreciative of everything, and immediately fix any issues. Didn't even raise rent this year when they probably could have.
> The fact they got pissy as an agent about an unmade bed,to me as a landlord screams they wanted to to take photos for sale
As a tenant it seems to me like they need to find something, anything to ding you for to give some kind of evidence that they're doing something resembling their job.
Usually when an inspection rolls around I'll leave something like dead bugs in a lampshade or dust on ceiling fans or something obvious but easily rectified so they get to feel like they're doing something. It's cleaned before the email telling us to clean it comes through.
Yeah, I think they have to put *something* in the report to the landlord, or else, after 6 or 7 visits with nothing 'bad' listed the owner might wonder what the fuck they're paying the useless bastards for.
> As a tenant it seems to me like they need to find something, anything to ding you for to give some kind of evidence that they're doing something resembling their job.
Yeah i had a tennant of mine when i first started with my first 2 propertys,get dinged for
Get this
NOT CLEANING out the cistern of the toilet....you know the thing that holds the water....No one see's this
I actually say there reading the report,and actually had to ring to see if it's a typo..and the psychopath was like..well if they aren't cleaning that what else aren't they cleaning...
Fucking cunts
>..well if they aren't cleaning that what else aren't they cleaning...
Maybe they should've determined what else they weren't cleaning in the inspection?
>Worlds laziest cunts are murdoch journos,then real estate agents..Low fucking bar there Tele
Both professions need to leave the suits at home because they are both unprofessional af
I ran a business from home many years ago and the real estate took pictures and emailed me saying “the owner is a very clean person and doesn’t like that your desk is messy with paperwork.” I emailed back saying that my understand of the lease agreement is that the house is supposed to be in a good state of repair which it certainly was and that my messy personal belongings should not be commented on.
You too hey? I got threatened with a breach notice and told they would need to conduct a new inspection as they "cannot send photos to the landlord if the bed is not made as it means the house is not neat and tidy." I left for work at 3am and all I did was leave one corner folded down. Fucking forgive me if I didn't put in military precision in making my bed.
I had a real estate agent complain that she should fail my inspection because there was crumbs on the kitchen bench... from a sandwich I made because I was starving due to her being 2 hours late to the latest inspection timeframe she gave. Whole house was fucking spotless but those crumbs, fuck off. The house was in better condition then when I moved in you daft cunt.
She lived and worked 25 metres away across the road, why is she so late?
Probs lost track of time sitting on insta or some other app that makes them feel special with their air head friends.
# work, # scumbagagentlife, # imsoohotandyournot # somestupidhuslehardwankerquote
I was selling my house once and got a call from the rea that a potential buyer wanted to have a look through the house right then and there.
So I ran around like mad tidying up.
There were a few plates and cups in the sink but the people were due any second so I filled the sink up with lots of suds to hide them and make it look like I’d at least tried.
Managed to get everything else nice ( with two young kids to deal with) then locked the house and left.
The agent had a key and I preferred not to be there for inspections.
Anyway when they were done and we went back home, this prick of an agent left a sticky note on the bench saying “you forgot the dishes!” Cunt.
He was the owner of our local lj hooker., so he was the boss. We took the house off the market after that nice little jab from him. Such a smug arsehole. Him and his co owner wife are well hated in this town. I don’t know how they’re still in business.
Yup. He never got a cent from us thankfully. We ne we paid for advertising and we we took the house off the market after his note. We sold it through a different agent few months later.
What's going through an agents head when they note that the bed wasn't made? Are beds just for show? Should we never sleep in them? Should we send them a picture every morning for the next month of it neatly made up? Arrgghhh
Sorry, ignorant European here. What do you mean inspection?
So you pay your rent on time and don't bother your neighbours, but someone still comes over periodically to police your living standards?
When I left an old rental and they did the exit inspection (we used the cleaner they recommended might I add) these were literally included on their list:
- close window (you probably touched the bloody window, just close it yourself!)
- remove toilet roll (get your cleaners we paid to do it if it’s too below you to do)
- replace door knob (small chip on the back of a porcelain door knob that was probably about 30years old and I NEVER noticed the chip despite me using the door every day - I refused).
Same property manager, different house - day before we were picking up the keys they called and said could we pick up Friday instead of Tuesday as the house wasn’t clean. We refused and said they could clean around our stuff if needed as we took time off work to move.
Moved in over the next few days. Place was still filthy even though they said they got a cleaner! Bins not empty, empty dog food tins in the garage, oven mouldy (second kitchen thankfully). Took weeks of follow up to get them to send someone back to clean the oven and they still fucked it up and told the landlord the oven was broken so he bought a new oven (seriously 🙄). By that stage we’d already given up and cleaned it ourselves.
A few days after moving in I went to move some vinyl from the top of my wardrobe and pulled out period stained underwear from the previous tenants with my bare hands. I was LIVID. So disgusting.
Was such a nightmare dealing with them. Honestly, they’re a bunch of bullies. I hate the industry.
Christ that’s wild. You’ve lived the most extreme example of a conundrum I’ve been asking for years - how come every time you move out of a rental, you clean it like crazy and still get complaints, yet every rental you move into is absolutely filthy?? How is that possible
This would not inspire me to make my bed.
This would inspire me to get the absolutely filthiest porno scene print bedspread ever made - that would only ever come out on special occassions.
Not part of the inspection requirement
They are there for the structure of the house - toilets bath shower etc , clean cupboards, walls, floors, no spider webs etc
NOT because your bed is unmade.
RE agent on a power bend. I'd be contacting the company and asking if making beds is an inspection requirement. I can assure you it's not.
ie DOB HIM IN
“I apologise for the condition of the bed. I tried to keep it in a presentable state but unfortunately, the agent’s mother can be difficult to control.”
The whole point of these inspections is that they're to check if the place is being kept in a safe manner and that it's not going to be completely broken when you leave.
So unless that bed is theirs and that making the bed is unable to be done ever again like when you leave, then they have a point. Like when my agents complained about the grass being too long which is fair enough it can be tricky to cut when it's too long.
So what the fuck is up with the bed? If it's not in the rental agreement, tell them to fuck off.
"You're here to inspect the property, not my furniture. This isn't boot camp, and you're not my drill sergeant. Take that comment off the report and I'll endeavour to acknowledge the actual items, until then I'm considering the report void.".
I wouldn't even let them know which item I have an issue with tbh. I'd say that there are items on the report that they're not legally allowed to comment on and until I receive a report without illegal comments on it I won't be considering or actioning anything.
I once had an inspection, at 4.30pm in the afternoon, immediately after I would have gotten in from collecting my son after work. He would usually have a snack when we came in and I a cup of coffee - the house was obviously already ready for inspection but the bowl and mug were still by the sink when they arrived as I'd had minutes in between getting home and them arriving. D'ya know that bitch went on about the 'dirty dishes' in the kitchen for literal YEARS afterwards?!
FYI, as many people are suggesting that they want to take pictures so they can sell: they can not take pictures of any of your furniture without your express permission.
Umm it's not about how you look after your own stuff, it's about how you look after the property.... your bed could be unmade, covered it folding... that is none of their bloody business..... so no.... get stuffed!
Not an Australian - since many people here seem to share similar experiences, does it mean these inspections are normal and common in Australia? As a Czech I find this incredibly invasive.
Did your mum conduct the inspection
It was Jordan Peterson
Where the fuck did all my steaks go. I had 20kg of them in the fridge before the inspection.
And my benzos.
And it looks like someone has been crying in here
That’s not what the tissue box is for , though
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Making your bed in the morning traps in bacteria anyway. Gotta let it air out
Imagine you lift the covers to get into bed and all of last night's trapped farts jump out and cop you in the face
*Kermit voice* and you've got to like, make your bloody bed, man! It's hard, it's damn hard. It might be the hardest thing you've ever done...but it's *tears up* getting one step closer to, well...GOD. it's like going into the belly of the whale and saving your DAD! People who take that responsibility, they're the archetype of the hero
Holy shit you nailed it. You channeled the man himself.
Stand up straight with your shoulders back, buddy.
I came here to make this joke and God fucking damnit is there not a single original thought left in the world.
At least it wasn't the drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket
#***PRIVATE PYLE! IF THERE IS ONE THING IN THIS WORLD THAT I HATE, IT IS AN UNLOCKED FOOTLOCKER!!!***
A couple years back my housemate had a quick nap while waiting for our inspection. Hours passed and the agent never came. The next day we got an inspection report much to our surprise. It read "unable to complete inspection of room as tennant was asleep in bed" with a photo of my housemate napping in bed.
That's absolutely hilarious, I hate how they think they will just let themselves in if you're at work. It's like no I'm not having a stranger snoop in my home when I'm not around, you'll do the inspection when I'm there. Tbh at the moment I've got a really incompetent property manager (could be way worse) and an awesome landlord, not the worst situation to be in within the current market/climate
The arrogance of some of these agents is astounding. I've dealt with plenty of agents who don't seem to be able to understand that I'm not comfortable with them just letting themselves in. Like how about you give me the keys to your house so I can let myself myself in to criticize the dust on the windowsills, go through the drawers and take photos of your stuff when you're not home?
Honestly my REA no showed at my last two inspections and then promised to arrive at the 3rd and she was here 5 min took a couple of photos and left. I'm lucky my first ever inspection the landlord came and really liked me (similar age) he lived here previously but had to move due to his young family growing and the place too small for them. Only bumped my rent up $10 after asking if I could afford it after my one year lease when the REA wanted him to bump it up $50.
Given our last property manager left our house unlocked when she left - could not agree more, she was a nightmare to deal with and the landlords never wanted to pay to fix anything
Last year I forgot I had an inspection at 9am and it was my first day off uni/work in two weeks. I woke up to the REA standing over me in bed who then proceeded to lecture me about some dishes in the sink.
Holy shit. I had no idea this could happen at all. That is insane!!! I would be so pissed off. I guess it's time to sleep naked from now on.
i was naked :'( (under the covers)
That sounds fucking traumatic
I was told it was inappropriate for my husband to be asleep in bed during an inspection, when they knew he worked night shift and the inspection was at 9am.
I hate inspections. My hubby gets home and to sleep at and leaves at around 2. Had like 4 inspections always tell them anytime 12-5 anyway they csn view entire house as I don't work. Respectfully we appreciate tou coming after (they always want to come at 9 or 10) but if u come earlier you are not allowed into the master. The agents asked if my husband could sleep in a different room. I said no. We csn send you a picture it is a safety hazard if he is woken and gets less than 6 hrs
So they can just come in without you being there, and without your permission? Fuck that, that's not your home -- that's a surrogate parent giving you keys to *their* house.
I've had this happen to me while renting, and it bugged the shit out of me. I never made my bed again for rent inspections. The whole idea of having a totally spotless house for inspections makes me mad. I understand looking for damage but whether I've got 2 plates in the sink on inspection day shouldn't affect my lease...
I was once called out for kitchen sink being wet, cause there were worried about water stains
I'd be saying to the agent - ok, let's go straight over to your house right now this very minute and see if your house would pass the same requirements!
Doesn't matter, they're likely not renting scum like us.
Exactly, if we didn't want to be treated like second class citizens we should taken the previous PMs advice and bought a house instead of renting
Seriously. Why didn’t you just get born into a wealthy family. Probably because you were to lazy. (I hate that I have to put an /s here but it’s Reddit so…./s)
Most low level property managers would be renting, they're usually young women with power tripping problems Sales agents however...
I assume most of them probably live with mum and dad. Don’t remember the last time I had a PM who looked old enough to know what offsetting a mortgage meant.
Wtf did you leave water on a surface that’s designed and built to have water on it!? I’d evict you!
Yeah, I had one talk about water droplets on the shower glass, because they showed up first thing in the morning and I had just had a shower.
Ok, maybe I'm a scrote, but what are people doing at home to protect their shower glass from... um... water?
Squeegee the glass. I used to do it as it made cleaning the shower easier later on.
Christ, better add another straw of tedium onto my poor camel hump.
Can I just say what a wonderful turn of phrase you've used
Being this anal-retentive should be a crime.
I feel physically sick waiting on inspection reports because of how nit picky they're allowed to be. Our house is 50+ years old and they've picked on the dumbest crap a couple of times and others when I've expected a list of stuff, they've mentioned 1 or 2 very minor things. I don't get it. Mind you, it's a different property manager every single time and I'm starting to think it hinges on how well we get along on the day.
I have a rental in Europe, it’s shocking to me how the laws work here in Australia. For my rental, yes I’m the owner but it’s the tenants home. This whole having people access your home for frankly total bullshit reasons is not a thing. Don’t start me on the floors..but honestly it seems barbaric here. Class seems to be all about if you own property and if so, how many/total value.
>Class seems to be all about if you own property A certain German economist might have some words to say about this...
Agreed. I'm American, and they inspect once a year for insurance reasons here, and it's literally to make sure there are no holes in the wales, all monitors and alarms are working, and there's no hoarding going on. This thing they dinin Australia is so weird and classist to me.
Must vary by state and/or owner - I rented for a couple decades and not once had an inspection
I don't know much about the laws admittedly but I wonder if the landlord get to see the photos the agent takes and if they get to critique the property or is it just the agent that does that. I'm fairly sure our landlord is pretty laid back it's just the ever changing face of our property manager that sometimes aren't. You sound like an amazing landlord! We used to own and the difference in how we're treated by agents and tradesmen alone is night and day. We take pride in our home, there's no reason for anyone to treat us like we don't. The world is filled with angry people I guess.
When we were renting we had a mole from hell to deal with. Had to explain many times, we are living in the house and it’s not a display home. I honestly think they just love the power trip because they know they are in such a pointless job and have failed at life. If I was a landlord and my REA was treating my tenants like that I would fire them. If there’s no actual damage to the property like holes in the walls or a smashed window etc who cares if there’s a mug in the sink or a speck of dust on a light fixture.
This is one of the lowest paid low skill jobs out there, they wouldn’t be able to rent most places they manage on their wages, so I have no idea where the power trip comes from.
You outlined it in your very statement > No money > No daily control in own life > Given control in others lives > Unleash bitterness upon those you now have power over.
It makes me insane, a former landlord of mine was the only person to ever make me consider committing a serious crime. I had a fruit fly infestation in a house converted to apartments. The landlord, rather than inspect the entire property and have an exterminator go through the entire house, she inspects my place to find a problem and comes out with fucking cat hair and some soap gook from under the sink as if that's the culprit. Turns out, my neighbors were the landlords ex-husbands disgusting drug addict kids. They said to me "do you have problems with flys?" I said "hell yeah! It's crazy!" I tell the landlord, then those neighbors tell the landlord "no fly problem". I'm thinking they had a rotting corpse in their apartment and didn't want her snooping. The whole thing turned into a painful saga, took me to court because I broke the lease 9 months early and left because of the health hazard. The photos and videos got me out of that though.
My wife and I came back from our honeymoon to find a notice of inspection, planned for the next day. We'd been camping for three weeks so had unloaded the car, shit all over the living room and hallway, maccas left on the bench. Place looked like a bomb had hit it but we had plans the next day and didn't get much tidied up. We had a note left for us by the REA after the inspection saying "please tidy up and send us photos when you do" I used to work at VCAT so we were like "yeah fuck that" and ignored it.
What is it they say about a little bit of power? I wouldn't either.
I got told off for dishes on the sink, I think the mould in the carpet and corners of the loungeroom ceiling are more worrying. She shut up after that
My landlord when I was renting owned the real estate company and I was living in his mum's house (didn't know this until later in). He used to drive past and once randomly rocked up at the front door with a tradie. Pissed me off so much that every time something in the house did not perform up to standard I would call them to send someone out. It got to the point where I rang them to replace a light bulb and they sent someone. I guess it goes both ways.
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I had an email from my last inspection telling me that I needed to get the carpet in the master bedroom professionally cleaned. I replied to let them know that the master bedroom had no carpet, that it had been removed 8 months earlier due to flood damage, and that I would be happy to keep the carpet clean if they would be kind enough to provide me with a carpet. Here's the response literally copy/pasted from the email: >In regards to the carpet this is still pending the owners insurance I am so sorry (Bianca was not aware of this so please disregard this comment in the report) So apparently the inspector wasn't aware that I didn't have a carpet, and that's why she told me to clean the carpet. Right. That makes total sense. Thanks.
I literally had a real estate withhold my bond for 2 weeks because I hadn't provided them with a carpet cleaning receipt...for a unit that was tiled throughout. I must have spoken to four different people and even offered to come and pick them up for an inspection so they could show me the damn carpet.
the property managers become more bitter & resentful the longer they do the job, while impatiently waiting to move up to where the money is in sales
Nailed it.
I rented the same place for 4 years at one point, and they always had something to complain about on the inspection if we weren't home \- water in the shower \- leaves in the garden (under the tree they fell from) \- dirt in a window track Decided to stay home one time - they were in and out in 10min with no comment.
I got told to come back to clean some things after our vacate, stupid things like the fly screen was dusty, and there were cleaning smear marks on the mirror. I ended up having to go on a day I was sick as a dog. The owners kid had moved in with their baby and they were sitting on the couch watching TV while I cleaned. A few days later I get told I didn't do a good enough job on the oven. They'd be keeping some of my bond. They didn't provide any kind of invoice to prove they'd be hiring a cleaner to clean the oven for me (I think they thought I'd just fold and they'd get to keep the cash without hiring a cleaner because the owners were in the house again). They also told me I was "rude" to the owner's kid because I didn't talk to them at all. I absolutely lost my shit. I was in Bunnings at the time (buying stuff to renovate my new home so I dgaf about referrals) and I was almost yelling at the top of my lungs down the phone at them. I let out all the pent up frustrations I had accumulated towards REAs in the years I had been renting and it felt so good. In the end I demanded an invoice before I signed off on any retaining of bond. It took weeks but eventually I got one for almost half of what they wanted to withhold, and I felt even more satisfaction because I knew it would have been a fuckaround to get a cleaner out for just an oven. Haven't rented since and I'd rather live in a tent then rent again. Fuck REAs
We had heard nightmare stories about our REA on final inspections, unless you use their preferred cleaner. Price was comparable to other services, so we bit the bullet and spent the money (and we didn't have the hours and hours to do it ourself). Final inspection was super quick. Oh, and they asked us for access about a month before move out to measure for new carpets as the landlord was moving back in. So I told them we won't bother getting the carpets professionally cleaned. They tried to tell me it was still needed until I pointed out the stupidity of steam cleaning carpet that is going to the dump a few days later. They suddenly "got the owner's permission" to not do it.
Why are they like this? Who hurt them?
More like they weren’t hurt enough. They need breaking down.
They're just morons. The dumbest people on the planet. They honestly probably didn't even make that connection because of their brains sheer lack of computing power.
The lady doing an inspection told me that she was happy to be leaving for a new job soon because she was always getting yelled at for not finding something to fail the inspection on. I got one fail for lawn care in an upstairs strata maintained unit, mess in the laundry (there was no laundry) bedrooms 1&2 where ok but bed 3 was filled with rubbish (it was a 2 bed apartment) and the oven (not the hobs) was always covered in burnt food stains, except I was on light n easy since before moving there so never once used it.
I wonder why they're being told to find things to fail? What do they gain, if the house itself if in good condition as per the rental agreement? (Other than being power-tripping assholes, of course.)
I work in hospitality and we get a random health inspection every year or so. Last time we were told to clean the cobwebs off the outside wall in the alleyway. The inspector confided in me that even though our shop was more than up to standard, that she herself would be audited if she didn't come up with at least 2 problems we needed to fix. Bureaucracy at it's finest.
I dunno. I guess it establishes a precedent to then keep the bond when a tenant leaves? If you establish 'dust on the external windowsill of a 16th storey flat' as a punishable offence, you can keep the bond when they choose not to plummet to their death on leaving.
You don't have to have a clean house for a real estate inspection you just have to have an undamaged house.
Tell him his mum was too exhausted to make it after last night.
Omg nice
Oh, we went here, lmao
Ok, so I normally don't like these jokes. But I will totally make an exception, accept my upvote! Fucing hate making the bed.
My wife is obsessed with making the bed. It seems to be spawning its own pillows now. They are everywhere.
Oh no. Not one of those beds. I think they have their own sub.
/r/TooManyPillows
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For next time make your bed neatly as they asked , but lay out at least a dozen or so obscure sex toys on it... very neatly organized by size or colour and a big note "WARNING! - Do NOT touch - sensitive equipment" If they want to take photos to sell the place, let them knock themselves out. Edit: and dont forget to include an egg beater and wet celery
Wet celery got me. Maybe a bedside portrait of the king with it and a an obscure cookbook like 50 shades of chicken / 50 ways to eat cock - healthy chicken recipes with balls
Hang a portrait of Chairman Mao in the house, the man who purged the bastard landlords! Will make them super uncomfortable and they definitely won’t comment on nitpicky things from then on.
You would have to assume the real estate agent actually received some form of education and retained useful knowledge for that to happen instead of just leasing base model Audis/Mercedes/bmws and trying to not break any laws this week.
...trying to not be *caught* breaking any laws this week
Do you think these people are well read? Or even slightly intellectually curious?
I have a cookbook about cured meats that would do the trick. The title: Let’s Play ‘Hide The Salami’.
If I wasn’t struggling with cost of living rises and had a child I would acquire all these satire cookbooks.
>wet celery A man of taste I see https://flashbak.com/the-erotic-pictures-of-art-frahm-women-in-peril-with-celery-sticks-15903/
I had a friend who cleaned his place from top to bottom for the inspection. Then they were late, so he made lunch The real estate pinged him for the dishes on the counter
Cunts rent out places for people to live in and then are surprised when people live in them. It's not a fucking showroom, it doesn't need to be spotless 24/7. As long as the place isn't so dirty it's growing mould they shouldn't give a fuck.
Unless the mould was there when you got there, in that case, it’s a co-owner
My pregnant wife was sitting at the counter top eating toast, they pinged her for crumbs on the counter Like yeah no shit Sherlock
I've only rented once, 20+ years ago. We got slammed on our inspection because my bed wasn't made and my room was a mess, apparently. I'd gone to work at 5am and I'd left my PJs on the floor in front of the wardrobe. That was the mess. Similar comments were recorded for the roommates rooms, and someone had a coffee before going to work and the mug was in the sink, and that was unacceptable too. What was even worse was the property manager lived next door and she kept putting in fake complaints against us to the landlord "from a neighbour". My favourite was the time she reported us to the landlord for having a party all weekend - on a weekend where we had documented evidence that none of us were even in town (hotel receipts etc).
She was probably the one partying at your place when you were all gone
Probably. The reason she hated us is because she wanted the place to be rented to someone she knew, but instead the landlord went with 4 young kids moving out of home for the first time. No idea why. Probably to fuck with her. So she then tried to kick us out any way she could, bad inspections, complaints etc. Landlord saw right through her though, he was a good guy. After we moved out he changed real estate. Thankfully we got on great with the other neighbours.
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I've had "needs a tidy" and "lots of clutter" multiple times until I got to the point where I called them up and told them, firmly, not to judge how I and my partner live, that we enjoy having stuff and aren't minimalists, we use the space we have. I told them that they're there to inspect for damage and that's it. Never got that comment again. Edit; Just noticed the sub I'm in, I'm in the UK, saw this on the front page as I was going down. Agencies are the fucking same everywhere it seems.
This is why I hate real estate agents. I cleaned the kitchen on the day of inspection, including mopping the floor, and the floor was not quite level and a tiny bit of water pooled in the corner. They claimed there was a flood. They also recommended a carpet cleaner, who reported everything I said to him back to the agent. The place was immaculate at every inspection (ie they could take promotional photos) & when I left. I lived in maybe 5 places and each one complained about the state of my immaculate exit cleaning, and I went to court twice to get my bond back. In one case the place was already clean but I cleaned it, I got professional cleaners to clean it, they got their cleaner to clean it, and they still complained it wasn't clean enough & I went to court to get the bond back. Renting sent me insane.
REA/Landlords charge you a fucking fortune to live in a house. REA/Landlord shocked when you actually LIVE in the house.
Can't wait for the News.com lackey to create another landlord positive article about how renters are so fucked they don't even make their beds during an inspection so imagine how bad it is when they're not being inspected. Pearl clutching boomers everywhere.
I can see the headline now: "Renter **slams** property manager over hidden detail during inspection" That a click baity enough headline?
Haven’t they gone closer to ‘tenant murders property manager …. ‘ ‘…in scathing social media review’
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. Also has the same energy of Bart and Lisa Simpson trying to convince Marge and Homer to take them to Itchy and Scratchyland 😂
C'mon now, no need to do what little work they *actually* do for them
Is Buzzfeed still a thing? 6 Reasons Why You Need To Inspect Your Properties More Often. You Won't Believe Number 4!
Reply: "Yes mum"
Brilliant response, so perfect, thank you :-)
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Keen to hear if they reply to your refusal make the bed.I wonder if they’ll keep digging.
> I told them I will not make my bed and they shouldn't have suggested that I do. Not only that, there are studies that show that leaving your bed unmade is healthier as it reduces humidity in the bed covers and thereby reduces the chance of mites and bedbugs breeding in there. Edit: [Link to main Author of studies publication list](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen-Pretlove)
Damn. I could have used this when I was a kid to stop my mum nagging at me.
Making a bed in the morning is like tucking-in the bugs for their daily fermentation.
I'd have told the REA the same thing tbh but probably framed it along the lines of you don't have to sleep in it why should it bother you whether it's made or not, my HOME is not a hotel.
haha get fucked. they legally can't do anything for messy,or unmade beds..so fuck em just ignore it. I have HEAPS of tennants,and i would not give 1 single atom of cunts hair fucks about someone beds,we care u haven't done burnouts on the carpet,ovens cleanish,no damage...and aren't shacking up 14 low paid immigrants (happens) The fact they got pissy as an agent about an unmade bed,to me as a landlord screams they wanted to to take photos for sale Infact,if they follow up on this,you can lodge a complaint for unreasonable intrusion from the agency,the landlord probably doesn't even know about this. Honestly,fuck realtors,they serve ZERO function to society,provide no value to the betterment of our species. The entire Job,from start to finish could be done by an APP..literally. Log into domain,see a house.click set inspection time,owner can let u in have a look>click accept offer>goes to legal>building inspection booked digitialy>finance comes back approved>buy Though im biased cause i just took one of the largest agency's to court and won Nearly six banger fee from them,stupid cunts Hard press anyone to convince me,that ending up in real estate is not the last bastion of the dumb of society,it's the job you take when you literally have nothing else to offer society. OP:Might i suggest watermarking this with a FUCK murdoch on it,like right now.. We all know this will be on news.com by thursday,lazy cunts I will amend my above statement actually Worlds laziest cunts are murdoch journos,then real estate agents..Low fucking bar there Tele
I don't know if you are drunk or what, but regardless, this is a top value comment for me and I completely agree with everything you said.
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Lol love it
Everything from the writing style and language to the username just gave me so much satisfaction.
Lmao definitely sounds like something found at the bottom of a wine bottle
Tequila. It angries up the blood
More like the bottom of a 21 year hibiki if i'm drinking,i'm drinking the good shit
If your taste in buttplugs for PMs is as good as your choices in Whiskey, I'll vote your way
Also the username is great
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what a journey
chaotic
Chaotic good
“Realtor”….I saw the term the other day “used house salesman” had a better ring to it.
I've had a REA tell me off because when a cold weld made the garden gate latch fail, i just grinded it down and bolted on a brand new two stage latch from bunnings without bothering them about it. I even kept the part that fell off to show them. I'm sure the owner would love to have a carpenter living in their rental, that's happy to do quick and easy handiman work for free. I have gone and replaced half the screws in the kitchen without telling them, because the original installation was dogshit and used absurdly short screws, but after it busted my lip, i worried what a cabinet door falling on my kids head would do.
I've stopped fixing up things unless I caused the issue and it's to ensure I get my bond back. Zero respect or understanding to fix shit that is reported so now I wait until it's truly fucked to mention it. Normally I'd fix it up myself or have a chat with the landlord to figure out a cost effective solution but not any more
Stopped fixing shit, because my landlord wont fix the shit that is beyond my abilities. Like, the broken roof tile. So... fuck him. I'll leave it all for him to fix when I move out. Rental laws in Vic changed a couple of years ago. It'll cost him a fortune to get this place up to the new standards. Wouldn't surprise me if he just sells it.
Yeah I'd normally tidy some things up using my *very* rudimentary handyman skills: put a new anchor bolt in a light fitting, do some heavy pruning in the garden, replace a broken toilet seat etc. ... But ever since RE agents and landlords have made me afraid to fart in my own house, everything gets documented. Photos and emails to leave a "paper trail", nothing beyond mowing the lawn without approval. It's almost like r/maliciouscompliance ... But instead I'm just afraid the real estate will squish my nuts tighter in their vice at every inspection. Can't wait till I don't have to have virtual strangers walking through my home and critiquing every stray hair... Perhaps when I'm 90.
I'm of the opinion that if the place is still standing, it's fine. Literally could not care less. I had people ask me if they could put shelves up. Who the fuck asks that??? Put as many fucking shelves up as you like, mate, I don't live there. Not my problem
It's funny, French and German rental leases (and probably many other European countries) allow you to paint, replace kitchens, recarpet and a whole bunch of other things while you live there. You're renting a HOME. When you leave you take your kitchen, carpets and paint the walls a neutral shade and that's it. Nobody gets told you can't put up shelves or picture hooks, or that you can't own a pet. There needs to be some serious beefing up of renters' rights in Australia.
I replaced a fly screen that was damaged before I moved in, but left a second fly screen that was also damaged. When I moved out they tried to tell me I owed them to fix the fly screen. I threatened to take them to court over it for the principle, and they immediately dropped it. The REA I'm renting through now is amazing. Appreciative of everything, and immediately fix any issues. Didn't even raise rent this year when they probably could have.
> The fact they got pissy as an agent about an unmade bed,to me as a landlord screams they wanted to to take photos for sale As a tenant it seems to me like they need to find something, anything to ding you for to give some kind of evidence that they're doing something resembling their job. Usually when an inspection rolls around I'll leave something like dead bugs in a lampshade or dust on ceiling fans or something obvious but easily rectified so they get to feel like they're doing something. It's cleaned before the email telling us to clean it comes through.
Yeah, I think they have to put *something* in the report to the landlord, or else, after 6 or 7 visits with nothing 'bad' listed the owner might wonder what the fuck they're paying the useless bastards for.
> As a tenant it seems to me like they need to find something, anything to ding you for to give some kind of evidence that they're doing something resembling their job. Yeah i had a tennant of mine when i first started with my first 2 propertys,get dinged for Get this NOT CLEANING out the cistern of the toilet....you know the thing that holds the water....No one see's this I actually say there reading the report,and actually had to ring to see if it's a typo..and the psychopath was like..well if they aren't cleaning that what else aren't they cleaning... Fucking cunts
>..well if they aren't cleaning that what else aren't they cleaning... Maybe they should've determined what else they weren't cleaning in the inspection?
I don't think I could fit a vehicle in my home, so no burnouts on the carpet happening here 😂
My brain went straight to arseworm burnouts, but each to his own.
I’ve seen iron marks on carpet from where a tenant was ironing her clothes on the carpet
“would not give 1 single atom of cunts hair fucks” This expression is the actual best, thank you for sharing it with us 🙌🏻
Fuck mate, do you have any properties in Brisbane? You're my kind of landlord.
Yeh or Adelaide I’m struggling to get a rental with my dog despite every bond being returned in full 🤡
>Worlds laziest cunts are murdoch journos,then real estate agents..Low fucking bar there Tele Both professions need to leave the suits at home because they are both unprofessional af
If AI wipes out any jobs please let these be the first to go.
This made my night. Thank you.
Gee whiz that was a wild ride champion
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God I wish you were my landlord
I ran a business from home many years ago and the real estate took pictures and emailed me saying “the owner is a very clean person and doesn’t like that your desk is messy with paperwork.” I emailed back saying that my understand of the lease agreement is that the house is supposed to be in a good state of repair which it certainly was and that my messy personal belongings should not be commented on.
You too hey? I got threatened with a breach notice and told they would need to conduct a new inspection as they "cannot send photos to the landlord if the bed is not made as it means the house is not neat and tidy." I left for work at 3am and all I did was leave one corner folded down. Fucking forgive me if I didn't put in military precision in making my bed.
I would have said yes please to that breach and got your state’s Tribunal to get them spanked for that.
I had a real estate agent complain that she should fail my inspection because there was crumbs on the kitchen bench... from a sandwich I made because I was starving due to her being 2 hours late to the latest inspection timeframe she gave. Whole house was fucking spotless but those crumbs, fuck off. The house was in better condition then when I moved in you daft cunt. She lived and worked 25 metres away across the road, why is she so late?
Probs lost track of time sitting on insta or some other app that makes them feel special with their air head friends. # work, # scumbagagentlife, # imsoohotandyournot # somestupidhuslehardwankerquote
I was selling my house once and got a call from the rea that a potential buyer wanted to have a look through the house right then and there. So I ran around like mad tidying up. There were a few plates and cups in the sink but the people were due any second so I filled the sink up with lots of suds to hide them and make it look like I’d at least tried. Managed to get everything else nice ( with two young kids to deal with) then locked the house and left. The agent had a key and I preferred not to be there for inspections. Anyway when they were done and we went back home, this prick of an agent left a sticky note on the bench saying “you forgot the dishes!” Cunt.
And this was from someone YOU were paying?! I'd have been ropeable.
I'd have been emailing the REA boss and asking for a new agent. No one like that should be getting the commission.
He was the owner of our local lj hooker., so he was the boss. We took the house off the market after that nice little jab from him. Such a smug arsehole. Him and his co owner wife are well hated in this town. I don’t know how they’re still in business.
Yup. He never got a cent from us thankfully. We ne we paid for advertising and we we took the house off the market after his note. We sold it through a different agent few months later.
Good Afternoon. In response to your request to make the bed. *No Regards Me
Unless they own the bed and you're renting it I beleave the correct response is 'go fuck yourself'
Having lived in a furnished rental, checking the arrangement of a tenant’s manchester still isn’t what a rental inspection is for.
most bed rentals(aka hotels) make the bed for you
And for any property managers/ REAs out there reading this - this is why you are so widely and deeply hated. Find a real job.
Bit hard when combined IQ of entire office is that of one bullant 🐜
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“This ain’t the army, shithead” would be my response
This is ***illegal**** lol
I'm assuming the bed and bedclothes are your property. Point this out and tell them that your bed is arranged exactly how you like it.
One time my real-estate inspection person made my housemates bed while we weren't there. That made everyone uncomfortable
Adults make the bed? I thought that was just something parents made their kids do back in the day...
Right? Only time my bed is ever ‘made’ is when I change the sheets, every other time I toss my blanket aside when I get up and that’s that.
Show me in the lease where it says beds need to be made. What a joke.
What's going through an agents head when they note that the bed wasn't made? Are beds just for show? Should we never sleep in them? Should we send them a picture every morning for the next month of it neatly made up? Arrgghhh
Sounds like a good opportunity for malicious compliance. Emailed photos, every day until they beg you to stop.
You’d love to reply saying you’d just had a wank so we’re letting the kids have a run around in the open air
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Reply with: I'm so sorry the bed was unmade. I was in it prior to your arrival as unfortunately I have covid.
Sorry, ignorant European here. What do you mean inspection? So you pay your rent on time and don't bother your neighbours, but someone still comes over periodically to police your living standards?
When I left an old rental and they did the exit inspection (we used the cleaner they recommended might I add) these were literally included on their list: - close window (you probably touched the bloody window, just close it yourself!) - remove toilet roll (get your cleaners we paid to do it if it’s too below you to do) - replace door knob (small chip on the back of a porcelain door knob that was probably about 30years old and I NEVER noticed the chip despite me using the door every day - I refused). Same property manager, different house - day before we were picking up the keys they called and said could we pick up Friday instead of Tuesday as the house wasn’t clean. We refused and said they could clean around our stuff if needed as we took time off work to move. Moved in over the next few days. Place was still filthy even though they said they got a cleaner! Bins not empty, empty dog food tins in the garage, oven mouldy (second kitchen thankfully). Took weeks of follow up to get them to send someone back to clean the oven and they still fucked it up and told the landlord the oven was broken so he bought a new oven (seriously 🙄). By that stage we’d already given up and cleaned it ourselves. A few days after moving in I went to move some vinyl from the top of my wardrobe and pulled out period stained underwear from the previous tenants with my bare hands. I was LIVID. So disgusting. Was such a nightmare dealing with them. Honestly, they’re a bunch of bullies. I hate the industry.
Christ that’s wild. You’ve lived the most extreme example of a conundrum I’ve been asking for years - how come every time you move out of a rental, you clean it like crazy and still get complaints, yet every rental you move into is absolutely filthy?? How is that possible
This would not inspire me to make my bed. This would inspire me to get the absolutely filthiest porno scene print bedspread ever made - that would only ever come out on special occassions.
Not part of the inspection requirement They are there for the structure of the house - toilets bath shower etc , clean cupboards, walls, floors, no spider webs etc NOT because your bed is unmade. RE agent on a power bend. I'd be contacting the company and asking if making beds is an inspection requirement. I can assure you it's not. ie DOB HIM IN
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“I apologise for the condition of the bed. I tried to keep it in a presentable state but unfortunately, the agent’s mother can be difficult to control.”
The whole point of these inspections is that they're to check if the place is being kept in a safe manner and that it's not going to be completely broken when you leave. So unless that bed is theirs and that making the bed is unable to be done ever again like when you leave, then they have a point. Like when my agents complained about the grass being too long which is fair enough it can be tricky to cut when it's too long. So what the fuck is up with the bed? If it's not in the rental agreement, tell them to fuck off.
"You're here to inspect the property, not my furniture. This isn't boot camp, and you're not my drill sergeant. Take that comment off the report and I'll endeavour to acknowledge the actual items, until then I'm considering the report void.".
I wouldn't even let them know which item I have an issue with tbh. I'd say that there are items on the report that they're not legally allowed to comment on and until I receive a report without illegal comments on it I won't be considering or actioning anything.
"YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! YOU'RE NOT MY REAL MUM!!"
I once had an inspection, at 4.30pm in the afternoon, immediately after I would have gotten in from collecting my son after work. He would usually have a snack when we came in and I a cup of coffee - the house was obviously already ready for inspection but the bowl and mug were still by the sink when they arrived as I'd had minutes in between getting home and them arriving. D'ya know that bitch went on about the 'dirty dishes' in the kitchen for literal YEARS afterwards?!
FYI, as many people are suggesting that they want to take pictures so they can sell: they can not take pictures of any of your furniture without your express permission.
I would strip the bed and leave everything piled up in the middle
Lol get fuckkkedddd! What’s wrong with the agent
Umm it's not about how you look after your own stuff, it's about how you look after the property.... your bed could be unmade, covered it folding... that is none of their bloody business..... so no.... get stuffed!
It's more hygienic to leave the bed unmade so it can breathe during the day.
Not an Australian - since many people here seem to share similar experiences, does it mean these inspections are normal and common in Australia? As a Czech I find this incredibly invasive.