Emily Semitecolos

Review of Ray White Runaway Bay

We own 2 houses and are very well respected member...

We own 2 houses and are very well respected members of our community and the way we have been treated coming into this renting scam has made us absolutely disgusted. We've lost faith in humanity. We did our job as tenants for the time we lived there. We went above and beyond. Rent was always early and we cleaned the overpriced dump up as best as we could. Despite doing our job as tenants, the owner didn't do her job as a landlord, the house was a filthy mess when we moved in, fence was rotten and had pailings falling off and she refused to replace. Even after a dog came through the fence while my one year old son was playing in the yard and our dogs attacked it to protect him. We then had to pay the other dogs vet fees. No compensation was offered and still refused to replace fence. Things were done so dodgy they would fall apart as soon as we'd look at them. We had to take unpaid time off work to make the house at least barely liveable and contain our dogs without a secure fence (despite being advertised as secure for dogs and children). We had to take unpaid time off work so many times I lost my job and we had to move back to our old jobs and family in country nsw. And despite us paying a break lease and advertising fee, the property manager hasn't done her job as a property manager either. She's had 12 weeks notice, more than enough time find a tenant for that place and I know of at least one who has applied weeks ago but never heard back. The property manager told us she would help us, only if we took this review down. Which we did. Weeks ago. And if anything she's made things harder for us. We simply can't afford to keep paying rent for a place we haven't lived in for weeks. We are 10 days over due with rent for a place that caused us so much stress, money and health issues and now we are being threatened with being liable for compensation to the owner if we don't pay. If anyone is liable for compensation it's this real estate scam.