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A tenant has begged Anthony Albanese to not make him homeless after the Prime Minister issued him with an eviction discover.
Jim Flanagan, 45, has lived in certainly one of Mr Albanese’s funding properties within the inner-west Sydney suburb of Dulwich Hill for 4 years, however has been given 90 days to pack up and go away.
The Prime Minister’s property portfolio has beforehand been estimated to be value about $5million, though he bought a two-bedroom unit in Canberra in 2022.
Mr Albanese famously grew up in public housing in Sydney, however now owns a mortgage-free bungalow in Marrickville and the three-bedroom Dulwich Hill townhouse.
The Prime Minister splits his time between The Lodge in Canberra and Kirribilli Home in Sydney, lease and mortgage-free.
Jim Flanagan (pictured) has begged his landlord Anthony Albanese to not kick him out onto the road after he obtained an eviction discover
Mr Flanagan has been given 90 days to vacate the Dulwich Hill property (pictured)
Mr Flanagan was reluctant to go public about his scenario however felt he had no different alternative.
‘It will kill me, it is a crippling blow proper now,’ he informed the Every day Telegraph.
A shocked Mr Flanagan obtained the eviction discover from his actual property on Could 8, which knowledgeable him that Mr Albanese ‘may very well be promoting the home at some stage’.
‘Please be suggested that the owner requires vacant possession of the property… 90 days after the service of this letter,’ the discover acknowledged.
Mr Flanagan then requested for clarification on whether or not it was the owner’s need he vacate the property, which the agent confirmed.
The small enterprise proprietor is on a month-to-month lease and is aware of the Prime Minister has the appropriate to promote the home.
However Mr Flanagan has been spurred into attempting to remain on after studying concerning the authorities’s $1.9billion bundle to slash rental prices for susceptible folks introduced in Tuesday’s Federal Finances.
‘It simply does not sit nicely when (Mr Albanese) is attempting to be sympathetic with the vast majority of Australians who’re, like me, discovering the present local weather extraordinarily difficult,’ Mr Flanagan mentioned.
He mentioned he voted for Labor within the 2022 election and principally helps the occasion’s insurance policies, however he’s doing it powerful because the bar he owns is struggling.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his companion Jodie Haydon are pictured at Parliament Home in Canberra
Mr Albanese lowered the lease for Mr Flanagan and his then companion to $680 per week throughout the pandemic, and has not raised it since.
Mr Flanagan added that the Prime Minister ‘has been an incredible landlord’ and ‘very beneficiant’.
But when he’s evicted, his lease for the same property in the identical space, which is a brief stroll away from his bar, is more likely to be round $800 per week.
Mr Flanagan’s former companion has beforehand opened up about what it was like having the PM as a landlord.
In a video on TikTok in 2022, she praised Mr Albanese for ‘residing the values he preaches’ by slashing her lease by 25 per cent in the beginning of the Covid pandemic – and sustaining that lowered fee two years later.
Mr Albanese, who’s estimated to be incomes round $115,000 a yr from his funding properties, mentioned on Wednesday evening that he was going to promote resulting from ‘modifications in my private life’.
Anthony Albanese additionally owns this Marrickville residence (pictured), which can also be being presently rented out
These modifications are understood to be his impending marriage to Ms Haydon after the couple received engaged in February.
He purchased the Dulwich Hill property for $1.175million in 2015, and it is now estimated to be value between $1.9million and $2.2million.
Mr Albanese additionally rents out his former residence in Marrickville, which can also be in Sydney’s inner-west, for $1,350 per week.
