A home that recently sold for nearly $3 million immediately hit the market to rent for a princely sum despite its less-than-royal condition.
The property on Sydney’s north shore rents for $700 or $800 a week, depending on whether you search on the property’s site or the tour details on YouTube.
Clearly sold as a fixer-upper, it appears that not many repairs were made before photos and video were uploaded online showing mold and a strange ‘third bedroom/study’ with random bits of wooden shelving.
The property’s street number is listed as conceptual”.
Photos show clear mold in a bedroom and kitchen, but strangely there are no photos of the bathroom.
However, in the video, the real estate agent shows the bedroom and says that it has been recently painted.
The mold is no longer visible, but it doesn’t say if it has been treated or just painted.
It also doesn’t say why the photo of the pre-paint work was the only one used on the rental site.
When the video cuts to the bathroom, it becomes clear why photos of it weren’t used on the property’s website: there is mold there too and it clearly hasn’t been painted.
This photo shows a bedroom with mold, but the landlord wants rent of up to $800 per week for the house.
A strange ‘third bedroom or study’ (pictured) features random fragments of wooden shelving
The photo of the kitchen shows what are mold stains or smoke, or possibly both, but nothing compares to the strange room described as being used as a third bedroom or study.
But given the strange mess of wooden structures in it, which seem to block access to the window and blinds, it wouldn’t be of much use to either of them.
It looks like it may have been used previously for a raised bed, or that may have been the plan and whoever was doing it just gave up.
Nor is the back of the property, with its cluttered and unkempt appearance, likely to prompt anyone to think: “I must have this property, this is the one I’ve been dreaming of.”
Online commenters were unimpressed with the property, with one writing that it “reeks of ‘we’re going to tear this thing down and rebuild it, but we’ll rent it out until then.'”
Another commented on the third bedroom/study, saying, “That guillotine room has me convinced this is a piece of conceptual art, because there’s no way it’s a real room in a real house meant to be lived in.”
The kitchen (pictured) of the house also has stains from mold or smoke, or possibly both.
The bathroom did not appear in photos on the property’s site, but it did appear in a YouTube video. The reason a photo was not included could be due to the mold (pictured)
Some commenters were forced to use profanity, with one writing: “That’s absolutely f***ing.” I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, maybe both.’
The NSW Government’s housing website says: “Landlords, agents and tenants have a responsibility to report and remedy mold problems in a rental property.”
“Mold has been associated with respiratory illnesses and can cause serious health problems.”
The owners spent $2.91 million to buy the Lane Cove West property, but may not have had anything left to fix up the top.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted the estate agent for comment.