The Aussies using social media to right their rental wrongs

Australian renters are utilizing social media to take a few of their energy again and admittedly it’s about time.

The group Don’t Rent Me on Facebook has greater than 52,000 members and counting.

Group members are utilizing the group for advocacy and recommendation.

Then there’s the @purplepingers TikTookay account exposing sh*t leases of Australia one home at a time.

One of the Perth properties to characteristic on this account was actually falling aside and through my time as a criminal offense reporter I noticed drug homes in higher situation.

Real Estate with Rachel is one other TikTookay account ripping into sh*t leases.

A latest spotlight included a “shanty” in Mullumbimby.

The $400-a-week property was actually a caravan with an out of doors kitchen and out of doors bathe.

The worst a part of this property was the damaging fuel cooktop below a plastic tarpaulin.

A fast foray into the Landlords Australia group exhibits only a small minority making an attempt to do the fallacious factor.

One landlord posted about authorising his agent to conduct vital repairs to a house simply to be ignored.

Another landlord was roasted by the group for asking the right way to evict tenant who all the time paid hire on time simply because they didn’t like them.

The majority of landlords on this group appear to be sturdy advocates for his or her tenants.

So it leaves me questioning the place the humanity is being misplaced on this market.

I’m not non secular however there’s a commandment that all the time resonates with me: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”.

Some property homeowners want this commandment stapled to their brow.