EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact
A local woman has made the foolish mistake of believing that if she just keeps her head down, her landlord won’t hike up the rent this year!
Having suffered through flickering lights, leaky taps, a broken dishwasher and a hot water system that doesn’t work after 7pm for some reason, Naomi Mintz, 32 thought that if she just kept her lips sealed, her landlord would either forget she existed or reward her for being the world’s easiest tenant.
Alas, she was a fool.
Speaking to our reporter, Naomi reveals that even though she’s been breathing in black mould for the past six months, she was still hit with an excessive rent increase when it came to the one year lease renewal – a whopping 100 dollary doos a week.
“I thought if I just made myself as small and complacent as possible, they’d forget about me. Like maybe they have heaps of tenants and I’m their golden child?”, says Naomi, letting out a wistful sigh, “but all that suffering was for nothing.”
Naomi says she’s at least tried to negotiate them halfway, or at least to get all the repairs done. But any emails requesting maintenance have been swiftly ignored.
“I guess this is just the world we’re living in now and I have to get used to it.”
More to come.
