As other victims are aware, this trashing is alive and well in Taree.

Our rental house was recently trashed by the tenants prior to them leaving with $4000 rent owning, unpaid power bills, broken windows, broken cupboard doors, 12 year old mattresses lying around the house, five old TV sets, curtains pulled down, dirty clothes everywhere, hundreds of empty beer bottles lying inside and outside the house, rotting food left in the refrigerator etc.

We dare not mention those responsible but they have been supported by Centrelink and some local charities for many years through family support payments, cash advances and rent subsidies (which were not used to pay rent) and no doubt numerous other handouts.

To add insult to injury, despite having a Rental Tribunal finding to evict them and order them to pay what they owed, we had no legal right to set foot on our property until they handed the keys in. They then disappeared without doing this, so it cost us $360 to get the sheriff to ‘officially’ evict them.

There is no way we can enforce the Rental Tribunal’s orders and no doubt these no-hopers have moved on to wreck someone else’s property, all the while supported by the public purse.

Not a good advertisement for Taree or our welfare system.