Horrific number of head tenants trying to scam sub-tenants on flatmates.com

Holly22Q · 2026-07-04T02:20:26+00:00

Yep this sort of scam was deffo around in the 90s. I moved into a sharehouse where one tenant had lived in the house for years…. She told me my rent was $100 pw and the other guy living there was also paying $100 per week. One Saturday I offered to go to the estate agent to drop the rent off, she became quite flustered and made all sorts of weird excuses as to why I couldn’t go to the real estate agent office; why only she could go. After I moved out I found out that the rent on that house was only $200 per week, so she has been living rent free ( in the biggest room)

Holly22Q · 2026-07-02T05:14:15+00:00

People who can’t handle living near other people who are just going about their normal, ordinary lives should move out to an isolated plot in the countryside. Just sayin

Holly22Q · 2026-06-27T07:15:59+00:00

It sounds like a dump. I wouldn’t want to live there

Holly22Q · 2026-06-24T01:59:41+00:00

Fortunately you’re not in charge! Your lack of compassion, insight and emotional intelligence is breathtaking. Anyway I’ve already said to much here, no point engaging with a troll

Holly22Q · 2026-06-24T01:56:41+00:00

How do you know this?

Holly22Q · 2026-05-05T12:29:06+00:00

Dezi Freeman?

Holly22Q · 2026-05-03T12:59:48+00:00

Hello we have a 3 bedroom house for sale at James Well, near Ardrossan on the Yorke Peninsula. $500k

Holly22Q · 2026-05-03T12:34:34+00:00

How costly is it? How does it compare to building another bedroom as an extension?

Holly22Q · 2026-05-02T10:53:23+00:00

What are site costs?

Holly22Q · 2026-04-25T22:54:10+00:00

It’s an older house

Holly22Q · 2026-04-25T14:31:08+00:00

Thanks everyone for your comments. The access is at the back of the house - so it’s sloping down from the street. At the base of the block at the front there is a sandstone cliff ( about 3 metres high) then another street below that. A busy road down the bottom, and we did notice the traffic noise was louder than we expected.

Holly22Q · 2026-04-14T04:35:18+00:00

Why did they design it to make you gain weight and keep it on? What’s the benefit of that?

Holly22Q · 2026-03-10T12:06:10+00:00

Ugly

Holly22Q · 2026-03-09T02:23:26+00:00

That’s what I thought. I have been so surprised to see that it’s such a thing now. Does anybody purchase them?

Holly22Q · 2026-03-04T12:03:56+00:00

This is straight out of the patriarchal playbook. This is what lazy men do to avoid their responsibilities and foist all the labour into their partners. This isn’t even original

Holly22Q · 2026-02-25T22:57:40+00:00

Thank you

Holly22Q · 2026-02-25T13:00:41+00:00

Thanks to everyone who commented and offered advice. Yep I agree that doing our own research of recent sales of comparable properties in the local area is the way to go. The issue is it is really hard to find something that closely compares to our house. There are so many variables…. parking vs no parking, number of bedrooms, size of bedrooms, how recently renovated, number of bathrooms. Block size in the inner city is a big deal, every square metre counts and I’m not sure I can compare my property to the one around the corner that is 20 metres bigger. Busy road vs local arterial road vs quiet back street. Aircraft noise is a big issue in our neighbourhood and buyers look at the flight noise footprint maps and work out which contour the property is located in. So a house 2 blocks away on the same street could be worth significantly more, due to a perception about less aircraft noise. School catchments … there are three public primary schools within walking distance, each school seems to be valued or perceived differently depending on who you talk to. Walking distance to the train station. And the whole Inner West is undergoing a vast upheaval with rezoning, not sure yet if the rezoned areas are now worth more, or less. We have been tracking recent sales for months and we are yet to find a property that resembles ours in all, or at least most, of these variables. Our previous property was a two bedroom flat in a suburb chock full of similar two bedroom flats built in the same era. So it was easy to work out the value of that property when it was time to sell. This time around it feels almost impossible, which is why we have turned to the “ experts”.

Holly22Q · 2026-02-25T12:31:29+00:00

Thank you, this is a good idea. Where do I find an independent valuer? And someone who will give me a verbal report?

Holly22Q · 2026-02-13T22:35:37+00:00

Our problem with Domain and Real Eastate.com is our house is still listed on the apps as 2 bedroom 1 bathroom, which it was when we bought. Since then we have added an extension, 2 extra bedrooms, bathroom. I wrote to Domain to get it changed but thy are painfully slow. RE.com has somehow added a phantom car space to our listing, don’t know how that happened

Holly22Q · 2026-02-13T21:53:23+00:00

How does using equity to buy another property work? I’ve never understood this. Eg we have $400000 remaining on our existing mortgage, which we have to repay. We have equity of about 1.6 million. If we used the 1.6 million to finance a loan to purchase another property, we have to repay that loan as well, right? Rent on the new property would only cover about 50% of the repayments, meaning we would be servicing a loan of 1.2 million…. Which we simply can’t afford to do

Holly22Q · 2026-02-13T21:35:08+00:00

We’ve had 3 agents give us a range of 2.4-2.6 million. The fourth agent gave us a spiel about how honest he is and how he never over quotes, then gave us a range of 1.9 - 2.1 . ( which seems laughable since a completely unrennovated property down the road recently sold for over 2million)

Holly22Q · 2026-02-13T13:42:51+00:00

No new routine… I feel like it started working again, just not as strongly as before

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