RORY SALAZAR | Finance | Contact
Self-made millionaire-on-paper, Steve Combs (58), is asset rich but cash poor. Thankfully, his strong work ethic sees his grift and grind through difficult financial circumstances to make ends meet each week.
Despite Combs owning his own home and having one investment property, the combined mortgage repayments have skyrocketed over the last twelve months. Yet he refuses to pass on those extra costs to her tenants, because he believes that raising the rent during a cost of living crisis is “morally wrong”.
“I’d rather take on a third job than put my tenants in a more difficult financial situation,” the genuinely decent landlord explained.
While Combs’ altruistic motives are admirable, sources close to the man told the Advocate that his altruism is misplaced. This is because he has what they described as the ‘shittiest’ tenants Betoota has ever seen.
According to reports, these shitty tenants only pay rent half of the time. They are also given to bouts of rage which they take out on the property itself. Destroying walls, carpets, clotheslines or doors at will.
The Advocate confirmed the tenants were shitty yesterday after staking out the property. Within one hour of observing the residence, our reporter witnessed an adult male tenant barge out the front door to yell obscenities to the sky. The man then proceeded to pick up a brick from a nearby garden bed and launch it through the lounge room window, shattering it to pieces.
This then precipitated screaming and obscenities to come from inside the property, and within moments a wooden chair was lobbed back in a return of serve, barely missing the irate man who was now pissing on the mailbox.
Combs has had to fork out over $22,500 on repairs over the last 6 months alone. Repairs he paid for by using the personal savings he’d managed to squirrel away over the last two years.
“My friends say I should have them evicted,” Combs said dejectedly. “But they’ve obviously got their own issues. How’s me evicting them going to help?”
“I just can’t bring myself to do it.”
At time of print, Combs remains the only genuinely decent landlord the Advocate has come across in the whole country.
