Friday, 14 July 2023

Rental crisis gets farcical as Melbourne family advertise tent for rent in lounge for $350 a week

Australia’s out-of-control rental market has come under fire once again with an extraordinary video of a tent being rented out in a family’s living room.

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A family of four in Melbourne offers the tent set up in their apartment to a single person for $350 a week, which works out to $18,200 a year. 

*Her perihelion at 5 Cancer 08 (heliocentric) stresses that the urgency of her transits comes in the form of emphasizing how to foster life and sustain needs in the real world (Philip Sedgwick)

The farcical situation was brought to light by purchasing agent Ella Cas, who posted a message video on TikTok about it and said it was “a sign of the times.”

‘Not really. You can now rent a tent in South Melbourne for $350 a week,” Ms Cas said in the viral clip, which has been shared, liked and commented thousands of times.

Reasonably enough, the rental ad for the interesting accommodation begins with ‘Hello guys, we’re looking for a roommate to share our beautiful house.’

Australia’s out-of-control rental market is under fire again with an extraordinary video of a tent rented out in a family’s living room (pictured)

It further reads: ‘Room for rent, large bathroom is yours. Just looking for single, one person for room, thank you.’

The reason they are only looking for one person is, of course, because they will be living in a tent in the family’s living room, where space is already scarce.

The ad then says the property is in South Melbourne and is a ‘family home’.

‘Me and my husband and two girls live in an apartment, so we’re looking for someone who doesn’t mind living with children.’

Ms. Cas’s video offered what she called “a preview of the location where your tent will be – the living room of a family’s apartment.”

“Now they have two kids, and to sweeten the deal, you get your own bathroom,” she added.

The buyer’s agent then discussed the serious issues beyond the inherent humor of the situation.

“This is a very sad indication of the environment we’re in,” she said. “I assume the family bought the apartment when interest rates were lower.

And now that interest rates have risen, their mortgage payments are higher, and to help with that, they’re renting out their living rooms.

‘And how do you make a living room private other than with a tent?’

Ms Cas said the desperate situation ‘shows how difficult it is to be an Australian homeowner right now and pay a mortgage with these high interest rates’.

Some commenters were so surprised by the ad that they didn’t believe it was real, but another pointed out that the ad was still on flatmates.com.

The ad gave others ideas on how to make money from their own properties.

The farcical situation was brought to light by buying agent Ella Cas (pictured), who posted a video about it on TikTok, saying it was “a sign of the times”

A family of four in Melbourne offers the tent (pictured) in their apartment to a single person for $350 a week, which works out to $18,200 a year

“I could rent out my driveway to a caravan, backyard to tents, double bunks in my 4 bedrooms,” one wrote.

Another said they would live in their two-person tent and rent the second room in it.

Others questioned whether the lease proposal was lawful. ‘How is this legal? I pay an additional $26 (on top of the $350 asking price) for a one-bedroom apartment 15 minutes from the city. What a tear!’

The best comment of all, however, came from the person who simply wrote, “I just signed the lease.” 

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