we’re paying $500/week for a house that was marketed as 4 bedroom but the 4th bedroom literally just has a door knocked in it, and is too small to even fit a single bed in it or any other furniture. So in real terms its a 3 bedroom. The rent is going up to $520 a week from 1 July 2022, and the house is not insulated and has a leaking roof that the landlord won’t fix. We’re looking for another place to live but there’s nothing affordable out there. In the last rental we were in before this (2020-21) the owner put the rent up to $470/week from $430 after only 5 months living there. We said we’d have to move as we couldn’t afford it, and the Agent said the owner would just get another $40 per week from a new family as that’s what the market will bear.
