Speed Renters in Action

Last nights event was a huge success with over 50 people attending. CH10 News, the Age and a cast of eager individuals attended. One proactive young guy brought a little print out summarising his interests. Another was only looking for a room with an en suite. It certainly was a diverse collection of people.

The surprise of the night was that there were more leaseholders than room-seekers. The media tells us there is a shortage of rental accommodation. Last night proved that there was a need for more progressive ways to use existing land and housing. Read more of the Additional Resources on the guidelines page to see how.

The overwhelming feedback was positive, with most seeing the benefits of what we were doing as a big plus. Young women were particularly thankful with the opportunity to vet people before inviting them into their home. A number of leaseholders had met a prospective tenant and were off home to work out which one they preferred.

We hope to do another Speed Renting event in the near future. If anyone wants to volunteer to help run the event, that will make it much easier to make this possible. A special thanks to all who volunteered last night and to those who attended.

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.

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How many spare rooms have become junk rooms?!! Gee whizz, we reckon with the way things are today, householders could get prospective housemates to help clean it up and/or take the ’stuff’ to Savers!

All that wasted space is making housing more expensive. Remove the stigma of finding a good person to live with by interviewing a swag of people all in one go at the big event, next Tues 16th September.

We did an interview yesterday on RRR’s Room with a View promoting this hot topic/ event. Webhits went up, news services are interested and registrations are coming along. Forward on this flyer to your friends if you can.