Its the land under it that counts!
Media calls have jumped today as interest in the event peaks. Will the opportunity to interview dozens of potential room hunters inspire leaseholders to come and have a laugh at the Speed Renting event? It seems so as many realise they can clean up their junk room and save money whilst they do it.
Today we make the Leader, tonight MX, tomorrow Red Symon’s ABC breakfast and TV too …..
“I was talking to a friend last night and she said ‘I wish I’d had thought of that, I should have had a beer with a guy I’ve got in my house, he is an absolute dork’,” she said.
The speed renting event is part of a campaign to address housing affordability and student living conditions through the organisation’s “I Want To Live Here” film competition.
Coordinator Karl Fitzgerad goes on further to say
“We’ve got a spare garage to rent if you need storage space for your ’stuff’. Every centimetre of this great city must be used effectively for people to live in. To think there are easily 120,000 speculative vacancies in Melbourne whilst the battling renter struggles to pay for 2 minute noodles is a crazed indictment of this era. Land is for people not profit”
Despite such serious topics, the team are preparing for an upbeat night with good music, good vibes, a slapstick MC and hopefully a few ‘ahh’s’ of relief emanating from both sides of the rental market as they meet the perfect people.
