#I’ve saged the whole house coz I swear this place must be cursed

[phoenixmartinez-ride]

Seriously ready to bash my head thru the goddamn wall. Live in a department of housing property (and have just been given a significant increase in the rent), been in this house for 6 years now and it’s just been an awful hell hole the entire time. So much has gone wrong, there are so many issues with the house.

Like our oven had been broken for months, the stove was fine, but the oven just wouldn’t stay hot, and we were just waiting and waiting for them to fix it, and they finally replaced it a few day ago and it seemed to be working great. But it’s Christmas Eve tonight and we started cooking the roasts for dinner, and the oven went out. We tried relighting it, but the gas wasn’t working, at all. A tiny amount would come out, but neither the oven or the stove would light. Now we don’t have a working oven OR stove. We were halfway through cooking Christmas Eve dinner! My sister had to rush out and buy a bench top air fryer oven thing that cost her over $130!

So we did manage to find a solution to cooking, but who fucking knows when maintenance is gonna show up to fix the damn thing.

But then I went to get something from my room and saw a weird puddle on the floor outside my door. For a second, I thought maybe the rabbit had peed on the floor, but then I looked up and realised the goddamn roof was leaking in the rain! There’s been this huge crack in the ceiling for months now, but obvi maintenance hasn’t done anything about it or sent anyone to check it out. And that leak is gonna get so much worse, because it’s supposed to storm all tonight and tomorrow and it’s barely even started yet.

Called maintenance about the leak, but it’s 11pm on Christmas Eve, so of course no one is coming.

I just can’t with this shit any more. There are SO MANY issues with this house, this doesn’t even come close to scratching the surface. We waited over two weeks for them to fix the shower after they took the base out. The house has so many cracks and so much mould, there’s no insulation, the carpet is disgusting and hasn’t been replaced, properly ever since the place was built in the ‘70s. There’s so many other things, and it takes so long to get anything fixed. Apparently the place was SO BAD when the previous residents moved out that they thought it would be condemned. And maintenance don’t fix shit after move outs, they just do patch jobs to make it look nice for the next people.

I just don’t know how much longer I can deal with this. They’ve recently raised the rent by over $200 a fortnight and the whole place is just fucked. I can’t afford to go into private rental, and even if I could, the market is well and truly fucked and it’s genuinely impossible to find a place and get accepted because we’re in the middle of a huge housing crisis

I know no one probably gonna read this, and no one gives a shit, but I just needed to rant, because this is fucked.