Think famous people aren’t still struggling through the housing crisis?
Think again.
Australian comedian Judith Lucy has shared an insight on her rental situation.
Ms Lucy, 57, who lives in a suburb of Melbourne, highlighted some of the downsides of her living arrangement.
And it paints a pretty bleak picture …
“I am living in a rental that I like to refer to as The House of Sh*t,” she says.
Comedian Judith Lucy live from the House of Sh*t. Taken from Facebook.
“Since moving in here just over a year ago, I’ve had the plumber here I think four or five times – Tom – we’re on a first-name basis.
“At one point he came around because my toilet cistern pulled away from the wall and was at such a bizarre angle that every time you went to piss, it was like you’re in a Salvador Dali painting.
“A power point blew up not that long ago, and one evening I was massaging my lower back with a very small ball against my living room wall – part of it just collapsed.
“In the space of a week, my friend Michelle knocked on the door (holds up door knocker) – that just came off in her hand – then the lock came off the front gate, then the front fell off the kitchen drawer.
Comedian Judith Lucy’s housing situation sounds grim. Taken from Facebook.
“Last week, I went to leave my home and couldn’t because the front flywire door was jammed.
“So I couldn’t leave my own home through the front door for three days, and last Friday, I made the mistake of getting someone around to fix my washing machine – there was nothing wrong with my washing machine, there’s just no longer any electricity in my laundry.
“Now, I know that there is a housing crisis and I am very grateful to be living anywhere, but I am considering moving into a small chest of drawers that was left on the footpath because I think it could be safer.”
And her Facebook followers were quick to share her pain.
“OMG. this post came up at the right time,” one wrote.
“This morning the hinge broke on my bathroom cupboard. The backdoor won’t shut properly, a window is leaking, and I had to call someone to kill the European wasps that had made a nest in the wall.”
Readers’ comments suggest many Australians are living in their ow House of Sh*t. Pic: Getty
Another chimed in with some Chandler Bing level sarcasm.
“Yeah. In a housing crisis, all of us long-term renters have to be so GRAAAATEFUL that we have a roof over our heads and pay top dollar for it,” they said.
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The horror stories kept coming:
“My experience, with a father going down with Alzheimers, a pandemic and the ceilings falling in, the plumbing failed, the house subsided exposing huge cracks that possums inhabited, the asbestos shed started to collapse exposing an underground petrol tank that all had to be removed – and we owned the Sh*t-Box,” one wrote.
Turns out unfixed damage in rentals is not uncommon. Photo Chrissy Harris
And another:
“Yup. Renting a house on very mobile stumps. Front door jammed. Response from RE – use the backdoor. They eventually fixed it when the lock broke as a result of two MONTHS of the sustained pressure from being stuck. Tradie who fixed it shaved so much off the door to make it fit, we now have a 1cm gap down the side of the door. Just a tad drafty! A week after the front door was fixed, the backdoor jammed shut. Response from the RE – yup, you guessed it – use the front door we just fixed!”
And then there was this horror story:
“Sounds like our old rental in Bondi. So glad to be outta there. The sink tap came off the wall flooding the house, oven didn’t work for the first year I was there, rats live under the house etc etc endless parade of grubby flatmates with a few ok ones here and there. Just the pits. I hear you!”
Do you, like Judith Lucy, live in a House of Sh*t?
Others applauded her sense of humour, given her situation.
“I’m not usually one to find humour in other people’s misfortunes, but Judith Lucy, you had me in stitches watching this description of what’s happening at your ‘residence’. And I use that term loosely as it sounds more like you’re living in some kind of weird torture chamber. Commiserations….”
And finally, one suggested she might have picked the wrong box on her application form:
“When filling in the rental agreement you may have selected the 18th century experience as your preferred option.”
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