WA tenant maintains great residential deal due to decades-long friendship with landlord

ABC NEWS (Australia)

For more than two decades a West Australian man has had one of the best residential rental deals in the country. His secret, striking up a valued friendship with a benevolent landlord and cutting the real estate agent out of the equation.

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00:00 There you go John.

00:03 This is one of the happiest landlord tenant relationships in the country, forged on a

00:07 friendship.

00:08 Happy days.

00:09 Carl has been renting this Albany house from John for more than 20 years.

00:13 For most of that time, the rent has been $180 a week.

00:17 It's good to do the right things or try and help people out.

00:24 You get a good feeling inside.

00:27 I do anyway, about helping people.

00:30 Is that the chimney not moving?

00:32 No, the chimney's not moving I don't think.

00:35 The 90 year old shares the role of maintaining the house with his tenant.

00:39 Anything one's fixing in the house, well, one way or another we get it done.

00:43 If we can't do it, well I've got to get somebody else.

00:47 As a disability pensioner, Carl would be facing homelessness without John's support.

00:51 I'm very, very limited. I'd virtually be either moving back home with me folks or bed and

00:58 a car.

00:59 There's no other option.

01:00 My luck has turned to be good luck during life and I can afford probably a little bit

01:06 to help other people now.

01:09 And why shouldn't we help each other?

01:12 Sharing the luck and feeling good about it.

01:14 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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