14 Healy Street, Spence ACT 2615

There was orange and black mould growing on the bathroom ceiling and in the corners. The side door had been painted shut and almost every door and window either didn’t fit properly or had gaps and holes, which made winter brutally cold. We were told to fix the fences ourselves even though we had a dog and two cats that could and often did escape through missing and broken palings into the neighbour’s yard. Within a few months, my roommates had mould growing under their beds and the pipes connected to the toilet and shower backed up. We were told it was due to tree roots. We were lucky the plumbers were friends of the landlords so we didn’t have to pay. By the end, we were calling the place haunted or cursed half as a joke, half not.