Thursday, October 25, 2007

Dear Dunedin Landlords...

Ignoring the obvious issues with the landlords of Dunedin, I do have one thing I'd like to say.

A studio apartment is not a room with a toaster and a kettle. A studio apartment, by definition, needs its own bathroom and cooking facilities. Cooking facilities are not a microwave, toaster, kettle and fridge. You at least need a sink and a hot plate. Taking an old flat, doing minimal low quality renovations, bunging in some furniture than charging through the nose does not make this okay! This is not a fucking studio apartment! In fact, studio flats are meant to be cheap! Instead, you add $80 a week for "unlimited heat". Fucking hell, if I were to spend an extra $320 a month of heating, my flat would be like the bloody Sahara! For the life of me, I cannot understand how these dickhead landlords can justify charging that much extra for a furnished room with marginal facilities and unlimited heat. It's fucking ludicrous. And the whole thing survives solely by taking advantage of foreign students who don't know any better.

Fuck you, landlords of Dunedin. You're a bunch of dicks.

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