Landlord’s three-page, handwritten instructions on how to use the shower stuns tenants – and it gets worse

By CAITLIN POWELL FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 06:13 BST, 16 May 2025 | Updated: 07:05 BST, 16 May 2025

A landlord’s three-page, handwritten instructions on how to take a shower in their Adelaide rental unit has stunned potential tenants. 

A member of a rental property group took to Reddit this week to share the listing for a unit near the inner-western suburb of Mile End.

‘CCTV camera in the kitchen, bathroom scary and the weirdest note,’ they wrote alongside photos of the $280-a-week listing. 

Despite the surveillance camera in the kitchen, it was the ‘shower instructions’ that captured the attention of renters.

‘Please stand your back to tile walls/your face directly to doors – so water NOT drop to outside/floor,’ one instruction said.

‘Please close doors softly/closely when you bathe.’

A close up of the shower sparked some Aussies to suggest the grout between the basin and the wall was covered in black mould.

The listing stated the property was available from May 19 and would be $200-a-week for a single person or $280-a-week for a couple.

Aussies were stunned by a listing for an Adelaide unit which showed multiple pages of handwritten instructions on how to use the shower (pictured)

A photo of the kitchen space included a camera in the top left corner

The Aussie who shared the listing said they ‘had the heebie jeebies looking at the filth’ and that they would ‘pay extra to evict my bed buddy’.

‘My prison cell was nicer,’ another joked. 

‘What’s with the shower instructions. Far out. The mind boggles,’ a third agreed. 

‘Sad part is people are jumping on these opportunities because there is nothing else,’ a fourth commented. 

But one person did stick up for the landlord who they argued had taken ‘reasonable steps to look after the property’. 

‘As for the CCTV, those things are great in case of a home invasion,’ they said. 

Daily Mail Australia spoke to the 74-year-old father of the woman who owns the unit. 

The elderly man, who manages the property for his daughter, explained the instructions are in the shower to mitigate the risk of the door breaking. 

The unit was available to couples but appeared to only have a single bed on offer (pictured)

Aussies were stunned by the lengthy list of requirements simply to have a shower in the unit

He said tenants needed to close the door softly as ‘it can be easily broken’.

However, the 74-year-old said he was open to removing the signs and added the CCTV camera in the kitchen had been taken down since the photos were taken. 

The black mould in the shower would also be cleaned, the man confirmed. 

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Landlord’s three-page, handwritten instructions on how to use the shower stuns tenants – and it gets worse

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