‘Exorcisms’ in horror rental

A HORROR Housing Commission home rented out for the Commonwealth Games on Airbnb was used for weird religious rituals, according to residents.

A complaint file sent to the electorate office of Mudgeeraba MP Ros Bates reveals neighbours were furious with a grandmother who has lived in the home for 20 years with a grandson.

A neighbour said the public housing tenant owned a “savage dog that has attacked our dog on our property”, which sparked a report to council.

The neighbours complained about the lack of maintenance on the property.

The house provided an occasional massage service and there had been “strange religious rituals in the past including exorcisms with very loud yelling”, complaints.

A Bulletin report yesterday detailed how visitors who paid $500 for three nights during the Games were confronted with a “cockroach and greaseladen hovel”.

“The smell from the fridge alone nearly killed us. The front door key didn’t work and the owner’s dog barked all night to the point where twice the angry neighbours came around. This place needs fumigating and then demolition,” the visitors wrote on Airbnb.

Neighbours have backed up the visitor account, confirming the dog barked continuously for two nights while its owner went camping at Pottsville across the border.

“I had to get out of bed three times, at 1am, 3am and 4.30am, and go to her gate to try to quieten the dog,” a neighbour said.

The neighbour spoke to the visitors who were unaware the according to property was a Queensland Housing Commission house.

“They told they had rented the place (from the grandmother) and had had the worst stay ever. I felt sorry for them,” the neighbour said.

“I asked if they knew it was a QHC house – they said they did not but it probably explained a lot of things to them.

“They had to get their own sheets as they could not have slept on the ones provided.”

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has confirmed it is illegal to rent out a Housing Commission home and the department would investigate.

LNP leader Deb Frecklington told the Bulletin: “Public housing should be a privilege, not a right. It should be used to help those most vulnerable, not to make a quick buck.”

The woman refused to greet council workers at the front gate on Wednesday and has refused requests to comment.