Included: “Useable bathroom.” Not mentioned in the listing, so be sure to check that they’re included: Breathable Air, Walkable Floors, Weather-resistant Roof, Lockable Door, Potable Water.
Found By: Emma
Loveliest comment, by redgirl: Anytime someone feels they have to include the word “usable”, it makes a person question their definition of the word. A toilet, for example, doesn’t have to flush to be usable. You can USE it just fine…
Anytime someone feels they have to include the word “usable”, it makes a person question their definition of the word.
A toilet, for example, doesn’t have to flush to be usable. You can USE it just fine…
Not to mention the “convenient kitchen”…oh thank goodness the place has one of those! I wouldn’t have considered it if the kitchen was even the slightest bit inconvenient…
‘Usable’ must be in the eye of the beholder, because I would never use that bathroom.
I don’t see any counter space in the “convenient” kitchen so I’m not sure how convenient it actually is.
I suppose I could set up an ironing board and do my ironing and store stuff on the table at the same time.
Good thing I don’t iron too often or that could be a problem.
Bathroom is only useable if you are not trying to use it to get clean. And what is that strange newspaper carpet in the living room?
Why would they need a ‘useable bathroom” when there is perfectly good newspaper spread on the floor? If you look behind the chair it looks like someone missed the newspaper.
I would not use the usable bathroom as it has residue from previous uses clinging to its walls and floor. Did chair’s cousin leave a little mess in the corner of the tile-floored bedroom?
“Usable”… by a very desperate blind person, possibly. Well, I guess what you save on rent can be spent getting a Hazmat crew to clean it.
Look at the sink in the bathroom. I have never seen one like that. At first glance, it seems barely “usable,” but maybe one would quickly get used to it. It would have been a nice space saver in some of the very cramped bathrooms I’ve had over the years.
Oh, they are a great space-saver. We had one at my boyfriend’s old place in Melbourne. His housemate’s girlfriend referred to it as a “spitoon”. Bummer if you wanna wash your hands in warm water in the winter though…
At first I wonder what dreadful things must go on in Australia, that having a usable bathroom was a selling feature. That was in conflict with everything I knew about the Land Down Under, where I didn’t think the Bush Country meant you were likely to have to make use of a bush.
Then I saw the restroom in question, and understood it had nothing to do with the facilities in Australia, but rather in that apartment.
Really, had they not included “usable” as a descriptor, it never would have occurred to me.
It also translates into, “It’s cheap because I have no intention of remodeling the disgusting bathroom. Shut up, it’s usable.”
Usable bathroom = common bathroom, I believe, rather than a bathroom in which the renters have sole use. The same probably also applies to the kitchen, where it is convenient to the rooms that are being rented.
Eeew … I just looked at the bathroom picture.
It looks like a “shared” and “who-wants-to-clean-it” bathroom.
Wow, Woolloongabba is the name of a place. (Just got up, so easily impressed, sorry.)
Yeah, great name. Sorta’ makes it sounds like a “fun” place, huh?
Unfortunately, I can’t even pronounce it so I guess I need to rule it out.
Luckily, I am happy where I am.
It’s actually pronounced just as it looks Wool-loon-gabba.
Who is the property agent? Crocodile Dundee? “Well, the bath’s large enough to skin a croc and water comes out of the tap, so it’s useable.”
$200 a WEEK?! Are they expecting people to only stay a week at a time, because that’s about all I could tolerate of that horrid little bathroom.
I can’t imagine chic clubs, nightlife, etc being of interest to you, if you were going to pick up a date and bring them back to this little pit!
hhooww mmaannyy ddoouubbllee lleetteerrss iinn tthhaatt llooccaattiioonn??
Well, in Australia all rental is quoted by the week. When I was tentatively looking at listings in America a few years ago I couldn’t believe how expensive it all was! Until I realised it was monthly…
But more importantly than that: Woolloongabba CLOSE to the chic nightlife of West End!? I don’t think so!
They do that as well in London – the rest of the UK lists the monthly rental price. Perhaps they think people won’t notice the difference, or that salaries rapidly increase so that everyone moves on quicky.
But very convenient to the nearest hospital, which, after looking at that listing, I find strangely comforting.
Hey! They have a heatable bedroom!
BYOH
What the listing should have said:
*2 boxy contained rooms
*homeless person’s kitchen
*fungi filled bathroom – that means running water folks!
Haha, I came across this place while looking at places the other day. My girlfriend pulled a face like she had just smelt vomit when I showed her. Looks like the Brisbane Lions AFL team are no longer the “Pride of the Gabba”.
LOL!