A Hoarder Home Full Of Rubbish In Oatley Just Sold For 1.8M And Well, That’s Sydney For Ya

A hoarder’s house filled with rubbish, clothes and old furniture in Sydney’s south just sold for $1.8 million, and I officially give up on ever buying a home.

The house in Oatley belonged to a chronic hoarder who had lived alone in the property for decades, according to realestate.com.au. After her passing, the property was inherited by charity organisation Animal Welfare League NSW who then conducted the sale.

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All items inside were included in the sale, so anyone inspecting the home had to literally climb over mountains of rubbish. Even the bathtub and the sink was filled to the brim with random junk.

“You could only walk three steps before you had to start climbing over things,” the property’s auctioneer Michael Virley said.

“There were shirts hanging up in the hallways. It was a lot of stuff.”

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But one man’s trash is truly another man’s treasure, because a couple from Sydney’s inner-west bought the hoarder haven for $250k over the reserve. God, the Sydney housing market really is something else.

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Virley said that most buyers at the auction wanted to bulldoze the house and rebuild, but a clean up would still be necessary because “it was not known what was underneath the mess.”

“It would be a huge job,” he added.

Some really weird things have been found in hoarder homes before including, 2,500 free-roaming rats, hundreds of sex dolls and even a dead, mummified body on Sydney’s lower north shore . Yuck.

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The 13 bidders at the Oatley home auction were definitely home reno show junkies, as clearing out a hoarder home could be a fun project if that’s your cup of tea.

“It was considered an opportunity because it was a disaster,” Virley said.

“There was literally no value in what was on the block. Everything there would actually be an added cost, but people saw it as a good buy.”

Look, if my only option for purchasing a home is a $1.8M house full of rubbish, I’ll take renting over that any day.

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