A house inspection with a twist: Real estate agents are left in hysterics after dad sends amusing staged photos to prove his rental is still in good condition
- Tim Rousu was asked by his real estate agent to share images of his rental
- The 31-year-old father decided to send them some hilarious photos of himself
- He proceeded to pretend to be hurt by the lawnmower and shave his legs
- Tim found something new to do in each room – and the agents loved it
- Images he posted to Facebook have now been shared thousands of times
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An Australian father asked to send inspection photos of his rental property to real estate agents did so with a hilarious twist, sharing staged snaps of himself taking a bath, being run over by the lawn mower and massaging his partner’s feet.
Tim Rousu, 31, was asked to submit to a ‘coronavirus-safe’ house inspection on May 21, where agents asked him to send two snaps of each room in his house to ‘confirm the house was still upright’.
‘I knew this was probably a once in a lifetime opportunity,’ the Queensland-based diesel fitter captioned the amusing images on Facebook.
Tim Rousu (pictured) was asked to submit to a house inspection, where agents asked him to send two snaps of each room in his house to ‘confirm the house is still upright’
‘These are some of the photos I sent. Note that I did send genuine photos too,’ he said (pictured with his daughter)
‘These are some of the photos I sent. Note that I did send genuine photos too.’
Tim had followed the brief of snapping two pictures in each space but he had staged entertaining scenarios for each photo.
One photo he could be seen stuck under the bed, reaching his arm out and in another he was in the bathroom shaving his legs, applying a sheet mask to relax with in the bath and drinking wine.
Tim’s post has received more than 11,000 likes and 4,000 comments in the wake of his prank
In another he was in the bathroom shaving his legs, applying a sheet mask to relax with in the bath and drinking wine
In speaking to FEMAIL, Tim said the real estate agents were great about it and passed the images around their office for a laugh
‘I was inspired to do it when I had saw someone in the background of a work at home Zoom call,’ he said
Following this he ‘cut his hand’ drilling at an arts and craft table, was found searching for food in the fridge, went through some waterboarding torture in the living room, and even massaged his partner’s feet while she sat in an armchair.
Speaking to FEMAIL, Tim said the real estate agents were great about it and passed the images around their office for a laugh.
‘I was inspired to do it when I had saw someone in the background of a work at home Zoom call,’ he said.
‘When I was working late one night I just thought I could do that with the house inspection. I chuckled, almost dismissing the idea and thought more about it and knew it had to be done.
Following this he ‘cut his hand’ drilling at an arts and craft table (pictured left)
‘When I was working late one night I just thought I could do that with the house inspection. I chuckled, almost dismissing the idea and thought more about it and knew it had to be done,’ he said
People across Australia were enthralled by Tim’s creativity and said they ‘wish they’d done the same for their own inspections’
Tim even pretended to get run over by the lawnmower, which could be seen out the window
‘Then I set my every spare moment to thinking of exciting different ways I could pose in as many rooms as possible.’
People across Australia were enthralled by Tim’s creativity and said they ‘wish they’d done the same for their own inspections’.
With coronavirus social distancing rules hampering agents abilities to inspect houses in the usual way – by visiting its occupants – taking images has become one of the simpler ways to manage them.
‘It’s amazing how my trying to make light of the situation and brighten the day of a few real estate agents has been received,’ Tim said.