Only in Sydney: $15,000 a week rent to find cockroaches – and the landlady – on arrival
When the American director of the Illawarra Hawks basketball team, Jared Novelly, arrived at the penthouse of The Hyde tower last year ready to move into his $15,000 a week rental he was not expecting to find his landlady still in residence.
Nor did he expect to find faulty finishes, a cockroach-infested kitchen, a spider-infested barbecue and pool area on the rooftop, spilled ointments in the bedroom, and bags of dirty underwear and clothes.
He was, however, hoping work had at least started on a list of high-end upgrades, such as the installation of two cutting-edge, self-cleaning toilets at $28,000 a pop, a home theatre fit-out and an electronically controlled television mounted on the wall of the master suite.
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