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I hate real estate agents - join your union x

Melbourne, Victoria

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Joined November 2015

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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It’s important we don’t do this alone. (Also it’s much more fun getting bullied when you can laugh with pals about it) The Renters and Housing Union is a member-run union. We are comprised of renters, public housing tenants, squatters, homeless, home-owners, and people in…

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If you’re mad at squatters, wait till you hear about Palestine

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Just want to say that I know we have our fights and don’t agree on everything, but I really appreciate you all putting aside our differences to fight the real enemy. Seppos. You’re all legends and thanks for having my back even if it was just to send this little meme and take…

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Parcel Locker 10142 74259 8/117 Acland Street, St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3182

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The amount of both American and Australian folks saying they’d kill a homeless person on sight if they rocked up at a place that isn’t even their house is honestly heartbreaking. I hope you’re never in a place of need and are met with someone like you. Y’all have really opened…

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“Sunny room” - my brother in Christ that is a balcony.

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So Steve Price and I go to the same cafe and there’s 3 abandoned homes within 200m of the cafe, but apparently stevo hasn’t seen any of them

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@BenFordhamLive Is it really unbelievable that people who live in social housing reflect the demographic makeup of Australia or are you just being racist?

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You can now submit vacant American homes in the form too. No one should sleep on the street whilst we have houses left vacant for decades.

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Oh NOW people care about mould and asbestos? Interesting timing.

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SimonW

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Someone is probably going to try to squat in one of those homes which turns out to be filled with mold or asbestos and unsafe for habitation.

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Nothing more awkward than going to work after being on the project and having to explain the word pingers over a zoom meeting

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You can’t deduct hail damage from a tenant’s bond, Jess.

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Be nice if we did something about this other than go for a walk (like making housing actually affordable and accessible so that women have somewhere to escape male violence). Our housing fiasco forces more and more women to stay with abusers because the alternative isn’t safety,…

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Anthony Albanese

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A woman has been killed every four days so far this year. Tomorrow I will walk with women across Australia to say enough is enough.

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Australians effortlessly slapping Americans back on Twitter makes me so proud. It almost feels like punching down at this stage, they should be a protected species.

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@purplepingers Endlessly crows about capitalism yet takes every advantage of living in a capitalist society

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What’s the matter Johnny boy, got an empty house you’re scared about? X

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John Goddard

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I’m poor. And that’s your fault. It’s not the fact that I only work 12 hours a week at a café in Brunswick. Which is already more work than I can handle, by the way. The soy milk has me exhausted and I stay up until 3am playing Fortnight. Capitalism is a rigged system.…

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@LibertariansNSW Libertarians shouldn’t be allowed outside without a helmet

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Sick. Let’s do it x

@ajamesbragg

Senator Andrew Bragg

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If we abolished negative gearing tomorrow, it would have a miniscule impact on house prices.

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More than a few people on here have said that they agree with the sentiment behind the things I’m saying but not the way I’m going about it - just wanna remind you that you’re welcome to do it differently x

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Make rich people scared again x

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Squatting is good, actually. This was all an effort to try normalise something that is incredibly important to so many people (except the parcel locker stuff, that was an accident) - but you really don’t care about them simply because you think you’re better than them.…

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Did I accidentally turn @StevePriceMedia into a socialist at the end there? From “abandoned houses don’t exist” to “we should force the sale of empty homes” is a pretty drastic turnaround

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Me: we should probably acknowledge this housing system is unfair and we’re going to have to make some changes This person: “you literally want to kill us”

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Lots of Americans pissed about the empty homes list all the way over here in Australia, might start an American one too x

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The vic shadow housing minister @r_riordanmp said me encouraging people to enter abandoned homes is “grossly unfair” - you know what’s actually unfair? Homelessness.

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Something that is genuinely wild to me, is that all the Americans being like “we can’t have squatters here because we have STAND UR GROUND laws” don’t realise that in some states this same law means a squatter could fully legally shoot them if they rocked up to the house they…

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Landlords provide housing the same way scalpers provide tickets.

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If I’m pulling myself up by my bootstraps and squatting in an empty home, why are the conservatives so angry lol

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Thanks for having me x

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The Project

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. @purplepingers joined us to run us through how he is listing vacant properties to help people with no home get a roof over their head, legally.

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If landlords can require a bond from tenants to pay for things when the tenants leave, then tenants should be able to require a bond from the landlord that can be used to fix the stuff in the landlord’s investment properties. No more of this “the landlord can’t afford it” - the…

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Wild that Americans think it’s a far left idea that everyone should have a home

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@nonestlex *fortnite

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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. “Market value” isn’t legitimate in a market where the “product” you are buying is an essential human need and a human right whose cost has been artificially inflated by real estate ghouls and greedy landlords.

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the fact that rich people can own multiple properties (and even leave some abandoned) before every indigenous person in Australia has the chance to own a home, is ridiculous. No one should be able to own an investment property before…

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6 months

Just had a real estate agent call to complain that someone has refused to do business with them due to a review on Great 🥰

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Threatening someone with violence actually is illegal, unlike squatting babe 😘 Any investment properties you’d care to share? X

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Anthony Scalise

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@purplepingers Yeah well it will be coming to an end. Also if you keep your crap up, it won’t be pretty for you. 😄😎

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@StnJensen Ur mum’s house

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If you don’t give young people a spot at the fire, they’ll burn the village down for warmth x

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Libertarians tagging the piggies will never not be funny to me

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Topher Field

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Hey @VictoriaPolice he's inciting people to trespass, break and enter, and steal. He's inciting ACTUAL criminal activity, on broadcast TV. Are you going to charge him just like you charged me with 2 counts of criminal incitement for calling for people to break the human rights…

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It’d be so funny if Australia extradited me to America over a tweet

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Literally don’t even have to say anything about this.

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Wait till the seppos see this

@theTiser

The Advertiser

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As the state grapples with a housing crisis, The Sunday Mail can reveal thousands of homes across SA are currently vacant, here’s where to find them 👉

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Just waiting for the landlords to defend this one. #shitrentals

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Just wanted to update y’all and let you know that I’m working through quite a large number of reach-outs at the moment asking to be matched up with an empty home. Also noticing quite a lot of people reaching out for homes in regional and northern qld, unfortunately we don’t have…

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Just going down the road for a coffee if anyone wants my house for a bit x

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Klea

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@purplepingers let us know when you’re out so we can send some squatters over to your place.

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Got married and had the best day ever x

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I’ve just seen a tenant’s rent increase notice where the rent was raised almost 40% for a property owned by “The Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust”. Churches hold incredible amounts of land and residential property in Australia, and they pay no tax. The fact that the…

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*you’re

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@BRacafella

Australian Patriot Act

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@purplepingers Your a communist cunt.

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Shit they found my dildos

@CosmosOfCringe

Leeroy Jenkins

@CosmosOfCringe

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Since purple pingers is so eager to house people, heres another address to put a roof over your heads, im sure he wont mind, just dont touch his dildo & azz plug collection.

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Allegedly Vacant Homes - Naarm - 86 Weston Street, Brunswick (15 years) - 26 Bird Avenue, Northcote (2+ years) - 419-423 Cardigan Street, Carlton (block of units vacant for over 6 years) - 18 Waratah street, West Footscray (2.5 years, front door is open) - 31 Somerville Road,…

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My favourite thing about this listing is that the landlord says, “no pets”

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Was it something I said?

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Ring me, seppo x

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Sarah Fields

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Hey @purplepingers , we have your number.

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Libertarians are just fascists dressed up as private school boys attracted to guns and children

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The idea of a mum and dad property investor is something that was constructed to make you feel empathy towards a landlord that may own 253 investment properties. Just because you’ve reproduced, that doesn’t mean you should have additional protections when it comes to property…

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My favourite part of @firstdogonmoon ’s comic is the libertarian calling the police

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@GuardianAus

Guardian Australia

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Are you sick of rich people hoarding empty houses? Somebody should do something – no not like that! | First Dog on the Moon

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If we’re actually going to do something about this housing crisis, we’ll need those who have wealth from property to agree that the system they’ve benefited from is fundamentally unfair. Including politicians. It’s not enough to expect renters and first home buyers to keep…

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Conservatives running straight to daddy musk is very cute

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Sarah Fields

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This needs @elonmusk ’s attention. This account is encouraging people to list vacant homes in the US for squatters. Someone is going to get hurt.

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Politicians who own Airbnbs and rental properties are the ones who pass the laws on these properties - this is the definition of a conflict of interest.

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A national rent strike would absolutely collapse our state and territory Civil and Administrative Tribunals which are already overwhelmed. This isn’t on the cards, nor am I calling for it (just yet), just want our governments to be aware of this possibility. A landlord can’t…

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Migrants to Australia are not the cause of our housing crisis. Successive government failures are. Blaming the housing crisis on foreign nationals coming to Australia is a narrative designed to divide the working class.

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Professionals Taylors Lakes have dmed me on Instagram lol - what a crock of shit

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Landlords in Australia expect renters to pay their entire mortgage plus property taxes, maintenance, insurance, council rates, and property management fees - for a property that isn’t even theirs. This is absolutely ridiculous. They’ll then go on to say that it’s the renters…

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How bad does it have to get before governments actually do something?

@Asher_Wolf

Asher Wolf

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There is not a single property across Australia – or even a room in a shared house – that's affordable for someone on youth allowance, according to a new report from support organisation Anglicare Australia

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11 months

Show me the real estate agent and I’ll show you the crime.

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Oh no the boomers are googling

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The wildest part is how many of them are Christians or have Christian shit in their bios

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Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them. Also I got asked to speak at a high school, wtf am I supposed to say to kids?

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Like actually tho why is it illegal to resell tickets for more than the original value plus 10% but not housing? Tickets aren’t a human right, housing is.

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Gritty is the Way

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"scalper"

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This person has like 4 investment properties 🥰 investors abandoning the market is quite literally the goal. It means renters will get their own homes, and won’t have to pay off someone else’s mortgage. Hope that helps x

@ausstockchick

that stock chick

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Scrapping negative gearing could make the #housingcrisis worse? Scrapping negative gearing could cause investors to abandon the market. This leaves renters with limited options and potentially leads to further rent hikes according to The Real Estate Institute of Australia.

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In Australia, if the ceiling of your rental caves in, you have to keep paying your full rent until either you take your landlord to court, or the landlord/real estate agency agrees to a rent reduction - but the onus is on you, and not the person who’s literal job it is to manage…

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Australia’s housing crisis is due to housing being too expensive. The primary goal of the property industry is to make housing more expensive (to increase their profits). Why is the property industry “in the tent” when it comes to finding a solution to the housing crisis?…

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@MegMundell

Meg Mundell

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Had a good chinwag with @purplepingers about rental justice, blacklists, and fixing our broken housing system - a system that's driving more and more renters into housing stress & homelessness #ShitRentals #MebourneZero #PutaZucchiniOnIt

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Nice to see Ian taking a break from bullying trans kids and switching to homeless folks

@stillgray

Ian Miles Cheong

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This guy created a database of empty homes to enable squatters to locate them and move in. This should be illegal, and is in a lot of places.

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“Maybe the family that owns the abandoned $5.6 million dollar property can’t afford to do anything” bruh are u for real

@CarnegieSteel

Andrew Carnegie

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I'm so sick of people thinking they can just take what others have. You might find this shocking but a lot of people are struggling and maybe the family that owns this house can't afford to do anything because of all the taxes and crap they have to pay for grifters like you.

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Real estate agents when asked to do something: “you might see us send someone out in the next few years” Real estate agents asking you to do something: YOU BETTER FKN DO IT IN 24 HOURS OR I’LL SUE YOU

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Being booed by a massive crowd of rich people is my dream x

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Landlords and real estate agents are currently battling with whether to complain about reviews and give legitimacy, or to ignore it and see if it all dies over. What they don’t realise is that the renters that have shared reviews are real, and their…

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The ATO saying that that 90% of landlords are lying on their tax returns is wholly unsurprising.

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“Has built a following on tiktok with over 100k followers by posting full addresses for people to squat in” - bro I did that 1 time literally yesterday x Also love that they used the selfie of me on the toilet

@SarahisCensored

Sarah Fields

@SarahisCensored

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This man is posting addresses of other people’s properties on X, and has built a following on TikTok with over 100k followers by posting full addresses for people to squat in. None of his posts on TikTok have been removed.

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Abandoned homes in Brighton

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Landlord: “yeah I know it’s not legal, but I do it anyways” Thanks Georgina, wish you could have met Mao x

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Genuinely surprised nothing’s landed in my parcel locker

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@DrNormanF Is it lead poisoning?

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Just a reminder that maybe if all of the property managers from a company want to join a tenant-only Facebook group (don’t rent me) at the same time, don’t? You’re very googleable.

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Does the Labor party not realise they could get like, heaps of votes if they actually did something to help renters? Or are they just ideologically opposed to helping renters? Someone pls make this make sense to me

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@nonestlex I’m more of an oat milk guy tbh

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Ew, cop

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Just found out that @consumervic is going out and visiting the places I’ve been reporting to them. Pretty stoked about that tbh - but also, they asked me to tell people to report to them as well. The best way to report a property that doesn’t look like the photos they’ve used on…

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Fuck it, submit vacant homes in any country there’s a rental crisis:

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As @friendlyjordies did say, if you don’t want unions being taken over by crazy socialists like me, make sure you join them x

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I’m seeing this more and more, real estate agencies are sending reference requests asking about whether the prospective tenant has used social media to tell their story. This question should not be allowed in a reference check. This one’s from Altitude Property Management. It’s…

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Also fuck me how good’s the mute button

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87 Kellett Street, Northcote - Miles Real Estate This is the worst or second worst house I've seen. The Victorian Government is not protecting renters in situations like these. The government needs to prosecute landlords and real estate agents who break their laws, and not…

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You literally have the name of the man who pioneered the concept of adverse possession in your fucking bio you weapons grade plum.

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These tenants won in a tribunal hearing and the landlord sent them this.

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Has Craig considered not hoarding five houses during a housing crisis? The “hellish reality” he’s describing is just land tax - I wonder how Craig would describe the reality of renting.

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In recent times I’m increasingly reminded of Vladimir Lenin’s critique of the Australian Labor Party - which he wrote in 1913. He starts out by saying that if a workers’ party are in government but the capitalist system itself is not in danger, then that party really isn’t a…

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People who went to private schools in Mosman: really not surprising you don’t understand how under resourced the homelessness support sector is at the moment

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You’re a shit person and so is your real estate agent. Hope that helps x

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