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Aussie comedian asks landlord for references from past tenants
An Australian comedian's cheeky request for his new landlord to provide a reference has backfired, but he reckons renters shouldn't be afraid to follow his lead.
Tom Cashman, a regular on The Project, decided to flip the script and ask for proof that previous tenants were satisfied living under the owner who had approved his application.
But after exchanging emails about the request with an unimpressed property manager, Mr Cashman's application was unexpectedly withdrawn.
He had already been approved for the studio apartment in Sydney's eastern suburbs at $380 a week before he cheekily asked for the reference.
The agent, Stephanie, apparently didn't see the funny side of the request, after initially claiming she didn't understand the question.
'The owner does not wish to contact the previous tenants and it is not a requirement,' she wrote back to him.
'Good luck with your property search.'
Then 'within that same minute' she cancelled Mr Cashman's application, which generated an automatic notification.
'The response was a bit more intense than I was expecting,' Mr Cashman said in a video, which he posted to Instagram and TikTok.
'I thought it was a reasonable request,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
'I've had good landlords and bad ones and the difference can have a pretty big impact on you.'
He did not want to name the agency or the agent's surname because 'I'm not interested in getting anyone fired'.
'I also still need to find a home to rent,' he said.
However Mr Cashman admitted Stephanie might find his way into his routine at the upcoming Melbourne Comedy Festival.
He felt the incident revealed an 'unfair power dynamic' between agents and tenants.
'Most of the time when you sign a contract you have some idea of who you are dealing with,' he said.
It seems pretty reasonable information to ask for before signing a contract for tens of thousands of dollars to ask who they are, because for some reason it's a secret.
'Why does someone need to be secret in a commercial relationship?
'I don't think I even agree with the argument that it's "normal practice".'
Mr Cashman, a renter for 10 years, has had issues with landlords before and once had to defend himself over bogus claims of an ant infestation in a unit where he'd never actually seen an ant.
He was asked to pay $100 for the removal of the 'ant infestation' after leaving a tenancy in the inner Sydney suburb of Leichhardt - but refused. The agent's proof was a photo of 'four ants on a bench'.
Mr Cashman fought the claim and won.
'I argued that four ants is not enough to constitute an ant infestation,' he saide.