Kevin Van breda 14 San Briano

In February 2022 we were due to move into a property in Lonehill 14 San Briano owned by Kevin Van Breda through the agency City and Suburbs. We signed the lease and paid the deposit and first months rental. When we arrived at the property, we were told by the agent that the owner had not done any cleaning or repairs as he had promised at our visit of the property. The agent drafted her report and noted the place inhabitable. The owner was also refusing to pay the finders fee to the agency.

We were now due to move out of our current house and had no where to go, the truck was already packed. City and suburbs tried to salvage the situation but the owner would not agree. They eventually transferred all our money to the owner without our permission and now left us to deal with an unstable person.

We then had no choice but to sign the new lease with the owner and moved in. It was the worst 9 days of our lives, we did not move our beds etc upstairs as he had not painted and the carpets where also still wet. we begged him to have the place professionally cleaned and painted, plumbing fixed. he refused until we paid him the balance of the finders fee which the agency had taken. This was nonsensical. We were told that the house was not cleaned in 2 years and it was evident.

we contacted a lawyer which then sent a letter to the owner to get the property in order or we would move out. he made no attempt to fix anything. we eventually had to move to storage and live with family, then move again when we found a place. We were put through hell and a year later after going back and forth with lawyers, Kevin countersues us that he lost rental and we got nothing back. He was in the wrong but you have to have more money to throw at the legal system.

I am writing this to avoid someone else having to be tormented by a person like this. It was a traumatic and financial loss to our family.