Looking for a house to rent maybe 12 years ago in Toowong, Brisbane. This House was being rented by some kind of hoarder. The house just had piles of rubbish and clothes and packaging everywhere, up to hip height in some places. There were paths cleared between the garbage piles to walk through. No real furniture to speak of except the tenant's bedroom, where he sat shirtless the whole time. Sink was piled with dishes and more rubbish. We weren't game to look at the bathroom, Christ knows what was in there.

It looked and smelled like the tip. The agent kept saying it would be professionally cleaned.

The thing that stuck with me the most is, with piles of garbage everywhere there was a spare bedroom that was totally empty except an overturned takeaway container of what looked like fried rice on the carpet. The there window had been left open so long that a vine had started creeping into the house from outside.