ROGER IS THE NASTIEST, MEANEST AND MOST RACIST PERSON I have had the misfortune of coming across.
As you can see on his review, he has stated that we were "Selfish and let our big dog inside". When Roger berated us for this, we nodded our heads and agreed. Yes, we did let the dog inside the house as the outside was too dirty, unsafe and non-sheltered for our dog (Kalgoorlie had heavy rains the week we stayed). However, we cleaned up after ourselves, cleaned the bathroom, kitchen surfaces, did the dishes and stripped the beds to make it as cleaner-friendly as possible before we left.
Roger loves to advertise his house as "pet friendly" but this is only for "small, white fluffy dogs that sit on laps" (his words). This is nowhere to be seen in the description. Yet, we copped it and took it in our stride that there was some dog hair left behind, even though the tufts of hair he showed us were from behind the couches and the fridge -places no normal guests cleans before vacating. AND YET, my friend started helping him clean the house. Now we would have left it at this if it wasn't for Roger carrying on and on and berating us for our "Selfishness and not leaving the house as we found it". It was at this point that I had enough - this house was by no means a pristine clean house. When we arrived, every room smelt of cigarette smoke - I bought candles from my own pockets to get rid of the smell in every room. Next, I bought new sponges and wipes to clean down the bathroom and kitchen before we could utilise it - instead of using the old, stained, worn out sponges he had left us. Roger yelled at me for the "new shitty sponges" instead of appreciating the new cleaning products in the house that I had bought from my own money without expecting any returns. When we arrived, dirty sponges and mop heads were left in the sink which I had to move out of the way myself. There is a weird open shed space at the back that smelt so strongly of smoke and urine!! An old, dirty crack-a-jack packet held the table leg of the outdoor table that is bathed in dust and dirt! I bought my own sheets for the bed and a sheet to lay out on the gross couches. I even bought a washing machine disinfectant and de-scaler before using it as it looked so dirty!
So if anything we left the house in a much better standard than we had entered!
I am glad I bought my big dog to this place because the location is so dodgy. My car got broken into outside his house within two days. Roger's response to this? "I fucking hate those Aboriginals, they are making our lives hell and if it were up to me I WOULD RUN THEM DOWN WITH MY OWN CAR AND KILL THE LOT!!" Yep, this vile abusive man is also incredibly racist and nasty! When we bought this up with him the day he was verbally abusing us, he proceeded to defend himself by saying "I am not a racist BUT those people are disgusting and ruining our lives" . When I pointed out that I myself am coloured he said "I don't give a fuck where you are from mate"
Lastly, we ended up paying $50 for the dog fee (20 more than required) as we did accept the dog hair was left behind (behind the fridge and couch). But by no means was this the Taj Mahal that he kept insisting it was and Roger we paid a total of $2000 for the two weeks which is inclusive of the cleaning fee so if you are going to yell at us about not vacuuming the leaves that were left behind on the carpet - the leaves that were blown in from your doorstep due to the storm - then please kindly return our cleaning fee!
Roger is the most unreasonable, abusive man who it seems has never accepted any fault. As I said, we would have left the entire situation cordially because initially we did apologise for the dog hair and proceeded to help him clean (but in reality it really wasn't that much hair especially if you are going to advertise your house as pet friendly and charge an additional dog cleaning fee) . We even would have kept quiet about the racism as there is no point in beating a dead horse- Roger is an old white grumpy man and a product of his generation. But my god he just went on and on and just continued to berate us and now I am not holding back. This is a disgusting gross house and even more vile is the man who rents it.