My estate agent told me I had FAILED my house inspection for the pettiest reason – I was outraged
A MUM has been left fuming after she was told she failed her house inspection for the pettiest reason.
Mum Samantha Smith was told by a real estate agent that she had failed the rental inspection of her home in Newcastle, Australia.
The mum posted a video on TikTok explaining the reasons she was given- with the main one being that she needed to tidy up her child’s toys.
She said: “I failed because I need to tidy up, I need to tidy up the toys,” she said as she pointed the camera to a shelf full of toys.
“Sorry, I need to tidy up the toys? I’ve got a one-year-old. Are they allowed to say that?”
“I just packed them up but I’ve got a one-year-old and he’s already got his little vacuum (toy) out.”
The mum said the agent also told her the mattress in the living room made it difficult to access other parts of the home.
She then walked around the mattress to another room in a bid to show that it wasn’t an issue.
Samantha explained: “My partner sleeps there because, you know, I have a one-year-old, and he gets up at 4:30 (in the morning) and I don’t want him to wake us up.”
The mum added that a cleaner came every week to clean the whole house.
She went on by saying that the agent told her to tidy up the linen press cupboard and clean the ceiling fans.
She said: “This is the only cupboard where I can store our linen press stuff and our food because the whole house has no other cupboards,’ she said.
“Is that a joke? Like how is what’s in my cupboard any of her business?”
But what left Samantha fuming was that she was told to “wash” the outside of the house.
“That’s mould, mate, that’s black mould, I’m not washing that, like that’s not my business.
“What peeves me is she’s also here to see what needs to be fixed as well and there’s so much here that needs repair.”
She then walked around the property and pointed out damages including a damaged roof, unstable wooden floors on the decking, damaged handrailing and a broken gate.
Samantha said her family had been living on the property for seven years and paid almost £300 per week for rent.
She also said she paid £81 weekly for a storage unit as according to their contract they were not allowed to store anything in the garage.
She said: “I’m pretty p***** off, like the fact that, you know, there’s stuff that needs to be fixed that is severe, like we could fall through the deck, the corner could fall off and split our head open.
“Our blinds are actually yellow on the other side so they’re all brittle, she wants me to fix them. Like I didn’t do the damage, the sun did.”