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“Screwing Over A Struggling Family For Less Than $20,000”: Friend Helps Family Take Pro Revenge
Acquiring your first home is something many people usually dream of—and work hard for—for years. That’s what makes it even more upsetting if a place you had your eyes set on suddenly becomes unavailable.
But when a deal the friends of this redditor had with their landlord fell through, the OP wasn’t willing to let it go. They came up with a plan for pro revenge and reverse gazumped the greedy landlord with the help of some creativity and quite a few kind participants. Scroll down to find the full story below.
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If it wasn’t for this netizen’s pro revenge, their friends might have lost their dream house
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Quite a few people get gazumped when buying a home
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If you’re unfamiliar with the word gazumping, you shouldn’t be too upset about it, as it means that you’ve probably haven’t been gazumped yourself. To cite the Cambridge Dictionary, it’s “the practice of refusing to sell a house to someone after you have agreed to sell it to them, and selling it instead to someone who offers to pay more”, so in other words, you haven’t been deceived in a way that would get you all happy and excited only to watch your hopes and dreams—regarding the house, at least—come crashing down.
To get a feel for how prevalent gazumping actually is, a UK bridging finance provider, Market Financial Solutions (MFS), carried out a survey this year, which found that more than a third (37%) of people who had bought property in England or Wales in the decade leading up to the survey have been gazumped at least once. This marks an increase of 6% from their last survey in 2022.
In Greater London, the situation is reportedly even more dire, as roughly half of the buyers there have found themselves gazumped – 62% over the decade leading up to 2022, and 51% who bought homes in the period between 2014 and 2024.
The redditor’s pro revenge took place in Sydney, one of the most expensive cities to live in in Australia
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In the comments under the post, the OP revealed that their story didn’t happen in London, it took place in Sydney, the most populous city in Australia. Bearing in mind the prices of houses in said city, it is no surprise that the family was quite upset with the price change – even back then, roughly 15 years ago, it was one of the most expensive cities in the country to live in.
According to the Domain real estate company, the median house price in Sydney grew by close to 70% in roughly a decade between 2010 and 2019. The median house price in the year leading to September 2019 was reportedly $1,079,490 AUD (roughly $702,993 USD), while the current (as of June, 2024) median price is reported to be $1,170,152 AUD ($762,034 USD).
Luckily for the family, the redditor’s pro revenge resulted in a price increase that was less severe than the additional $80000 the owners asked for. However, while some netizens applauded said revenge, others sided with the owners, saying that it’s not unfair to sell a house for market value. Both sides shared their thoughts in the comments.
People shared their thoughts in the comments, the OP replied to some of them
Some netizens sided with the owners of the house
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Jet 1 year ago
Stories about rich greedy a-holes getting screwed over gives me the warm fuzzies.
Bored Panda 1 year ago
Gotta love a tale of comeuppance! 😄 Any other stories that made you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? Share with us! 📖
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Alexa Saltz 1 year ago
I once lived in a beautiful home that was "lease to own". Everything was going according to plan. Until the owner gave me an eviction notice. Her reason? My family found happiness in the house and in our new lives that she never had. WTF?
MonsterMum 1 year ago
Where did you find 2 dozen rotten eggs? The shops here only sell fresh ones
Ace 1 year ago
Yeah, that's what I was wondering too. Even left our fur several weeks they wouldn't normally go rotten
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Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
I've never heard that word before. You are an evil genius and I love it!!!
SuperChicken 1 year ago
First time I've heard of gazzumping, and I think it rocks! Yay for really good friends and awesome neighbors. On another note - BP, you're censoring the word, crappy? Seriously? That's an alternative than bluntly saying s****y or s**t.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
BP isn’t “censoring” anything; it’s a requirement of the advertisers. Take it up with them. Site owners are often stuck with this stupid, juvenile, and old-fashioned rule.
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Jon Stuart 1 year ago
I would love to back these guys but they actually vandalized their property to commit fraud. I am sure their rent agreement included maintenance. The new owners had every right to exploit the property correctly and were restricted through illegal actions. This is just theft. If you own a property and expect your tenants to defraud you agree. If you believe in the law and sometimes it's just tough sh*t then disagree with this. If you believe in fraud, continue to like.
Phyzzi 1 year ago
Nope, nothing done here (moving and adding furniture, using cleaning solution on the steps, disposing of rotten food into the sewer system, living next to people throwing a party or on a street that was more busy than usual on a particular day) by the tenants was vandalism (actual damage to the property), and the owners went back on an agreement (sure, a verbal one, but still an agreement). That's clear fraud from the owners and not at all from the tenants. Oh, and the neighbors disclosing honestly that the sewers weren't great? That should have been disclosed by the sellers (it would be illegal not to here). If the kids had been upp front and said "look, we don't know what our mom agreed to, we need to work out the inheritance and see where we are at afterwards" this could be unfair, though still not illegal, but a verbal contract is still a contract, even if it is hard to enforce, and the new owners misled the tenants, and came out with more money anyway. They deserved worse.
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Jet 1 year ago
Stories about rich greedy a-holes getting screwed over gives me the warm fuzzies.
Bored Panda 1 year ago
Gotta love a tale of comeuppance! 😄 Any other stories that made you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? Share with us! 📖
Load More Replies... Alexa Saltz 1 year ago
I once lived in a beautiful home that was "lease to own". Everything was going according to plan. Until the owner gave me an eviction notice. Her reason? My family found happiness in the house and in our new lives that she never had. WTF?
MonsterMum 1 year ago
Where did you find 2 dozen rotten eggs? The shops here only sell fresh ones
Ace 1 year ago
Yeah, that's what I was wondering too. Even left our fur several weeks they wouldn't normally go rotten
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
I've never heard that word before. You are an evil genius and I love it!!!
SuperChicken 1 year ago
First time I've heard of gazzumping, and I think it rocks! Yay for really good friends and awesome neighbors. On another note - BP, you're censoring the word, crappy? Seriously? That's an alternative than bluntly saying s****y or s**t.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
BP isn’t “censoring” anything; it’s a requirement of the advertisers. Take it up with them. Site owners are often stuck with this stupid, juvenile, and old-fashioned rule.
Load More Replies... Jon Stuart 1 year ago
I would love to back these guys but they actually vandalized their property to commit fraud. I am sure their rent agreement included maintenance. The new owners had every right to exploit the property correctly and were restricted through illegal actions. This is just theft. If you own a property and expect your tenants to defraud you agree. If you believe in the law and sometimes it's just tough sh*t then disagree with this. If you believe in fraud, continue to like.
Phyzzi 1 year ago
Nope, nothing done here (moving and adding furniture, using cleaning solution on the steps, disposing of rotten food into the sewer system, living next to people throwing a party or on a street that was more busy than usual on a particular day) by the tenants was vandalism (actual damage to the property), and the owners went back on an agreement (sure, a verbal one, but still an agreement). That's clear fraud from the owners and not at all from the tenants. Oh, and the neighbors disclosing honestly that the sewers weren't great? That should have been disclosed by the sellers (it would be illegal not to here). If the kids had been upp front and said "look, we don't know what our mom agreed to, we need to work out the inheritance and see where we are at afterwards" this could be unfair, though still not illegal, but a verbal contract is still a contract, even if it is hard to enforce, and the new owners misled the tenants, and came out with more money anyway. They deserved worse.
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