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A tenant says she was shocked and upset after finding out that the handyman that had been coming to her house for a year was actually her landlord.
The Melbourne woman, Kate Ritchie, shared a series of videos on Tuesday talking about how she unknowingly allowed her landlord - apparently posing as a handyman - into her home.
Ms Ritchie posted the videos to her TikTok account, with people noting in response the landlord had likely breached her lease agreement.
The tenant was told by her real estate agent that a handyman would be arriving at her house to clean out gutters following weeks of rain.
Believing it to be reasonable, she welcomed the man - who had fixed parts of the house before - into her house, but realised something was wrong right away.
A tenant, Kate Ritchie (pictured) in a Melbourne rental has been left shocked after finding out the handyman that had been sent to clean her gutters was actually her landlord
'Immediately I can tell he's a little bit irate,' Ms Ritchie says in the TikTok video.
After some slight bickering about the man leaving doors open, he then started an argument with Ms Ritchie over the unkempt backyard.
Ringing alarm bells, Ms Ritchie asked herself 'Why is this handyman, a contractor essentially, yelling at me for the state of my backyard?'.
'Mate, I don't want my yard looking like this either. We've had weeks of rain and this is extremely inappropriate,' she told the man.
'What's it to you? It's actually none of your business.'
After Ms Ritchie
