Househunter disgusted at home with beds black with mould listed for £350,000
A househunter has been left "disgusted" after stumbling upon a listing that included images of beds that appeared to be black with mould.
The three-bedroom house in Manchester is a former care home and was added to the property website Rightmove on March 10 by auction house Allsop
It's on sale for £350,000 and has gained a lot of attention online.
The outside of the property suggests nothing is out of the ordinary as it offers a rare opportunity for buyers to purchase a double-terraced larger house in a busy area.
However, Sam Whyte was quick to point out the 'mouldy' bed.
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This 'mouldy' bed was included in the property listingImages show a basic kitchen and living space which, although fairly large, are rather dull in design, featuring simple white goods in the kitchen and two singular leather sofas in the living room.
Many of the bedrooms look recently used and dishevelled with bedsheets untidied, many side tables scratched, furniture half-destroyed and mould prominent on most of the walls.
Various marks and miscellaneous stains are visible across several walls throughout the property, whilst carpets in the corridor and up the stairs are ripped and well-worn.
Other bedrooms appear untidyOne of the three bedrooms photographed contains a mattress that appears to have a swarm of black mould growing in its centre as well as on the wall directly behind it.
The rest of the bedroom is bare and features a broken chest of drawers and a featureless wall covered in marks.
Sam shared the image to Twitter this week with the caption: "This flat on Rightmove has ruined my day."
The copywriter, 37, said: "I was just disgusted. I didn't see how someone could seek to offload a property that was clearly plagued with black mould throughout.
Other parts of the property appeared to be normal"Let alone considering the poor sods who presumably had to live in it up to that point.
"I was looking for what we might be able to afford in the future and was pretty shocked at those that were well out of my price range but still very dilapidated.
"Affordable housing stock in Manchester is a real problem and everything being built is luxury flats. It's disgraceful, to be honest.
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Sam's tweet gained a lot of traction online"But overwhelmingly the response is from people who've viewed similar properties for extortionate rent in Manchester or London."
Her post has received over 2,100 likes and dozens of comments from users appalled by the general state of the property.
One user commented: "That picture is practically scratch and sniff, the landlord responsible for that horror should be put in front of The Hague."
Another added: "The stains on the mattress are one thing, but they seem to extend up the wall which, frankly, raises more questions than it answers."
One replied: "A housemate of my brothers years ago had a bed that looked similar to that. We used to call him Turin Shroud."
The Mirror went to Allsop for comment.
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