Kicked Out
Sandy was beyond furious with what she had just been asked to do. She stormed out of her house that she was about to be kicked out of in the middle of the pandemic to go to her friends. She could not believe the nerve of her landlord.
Her phone buzzed in her pocket. It was her friend Michael. “You need to see this. Your house is going viral on Twitter!”. Sandy’s stomach dropped instantly when she saw what he had done.
Aspiring Actress
Sandy Batchelor was a bonnie wee lass from Kinross, Scotland who was living in Catford in London. Sandy was an aspiring actress and she was naturally funny as well as being talented and beautiful.
She had always been the perfect tenant in her house and had never done anything to annoy her landlord. That was why when her landlord asked her to film herself for him she was left feeling completely disgusted and dirty.
Run Down
Sandy had moved into the run-down house in Catford as it was all she could afford. As an actress, she lived life on a tight budget as she never knew when her next gig would come along.
Her landlord knew she was desperate and had nowhere else to go. He had no respect for her and knew he could walk all over her in the worst way possible and that’s exactly what he did.
Fixer Upper
When Sandy first moved in, the house was very badly run down. There was a bad rat problem in the extremely overgrown backyard and many of the appliances barely worked.
The place was damp and dingy looking but at the cheap rate she was offered it at, Sandy couldn’t refuse. She had spent hours and hours improving the place and making it her own. This was why when the landlord gave her an ultimatum on what she had to do in order to keep her place in the house, she was so upset and felt betrayed.
Proposition
The COVID-19 pandemic hit in March and Sandy’s work had completely dried up. She had some reserve savings to keep her going but after they ran out her income was uncertain.
This was why when her landlord texted her a proposition out of the blue, she knew immediately she was homeless. She would never degrade herself to do that for him.
Homeless
Sandy was utterly heartbroken. For the first time in her life, she was homeless. She knew to choose a life as a freelance actress was a risky life choice but she had never expected things would end up this way.
As her phone buzzed in her pocket, she saw it was her landlord again. As she read his next proposition for her, she felt sick. How dare he?
Disgusted
On top of the despicable ultimatum he had given her, the landlord had texted her asking her to film a video tour of the apartment for him. She was completely disgusted with him.
Was this seriously how he was going to treat her after what he had asked her to do and then making her homeless for refusing? She was outraged. She was going to make a video all right but she was going to turn every prospective tenant off the dingy dive.
Scathing
After filming a scathing video tour, Sandy was certain would ever willingly want to move into the dump after the verbal assault she had given the place. She was taking everything she had bought for the place with her and moving them to a storage unit so the place wasn’t even furnished.
Downtrodden
Sandy had just had enough with her landlord. She was feeling completely defeated as she headed over to her friend’s for a well-needed venting session and a few glasses of wine.
However, as she made her way over there she was stopped dead in her tracks by the text she had just received. “Babe, your house is going viral, you had better see this!” he texted. She clicked the link and saw what he had done.
Viral
After sending Michael her scathing house tour for her crooked landlord, she had sent it to Michael who had nearly given himself an injury with laughter. Michael was an avid Twitter user and he had posted on his account.
Before long the video was gone viral with thousands of people retweeting it and commenting more laughing face emojis than a human could count. Her anger had turned into a viral sensation. This still didn’t change what the landlord had done to her, however.
Newfound Fame
Despite sleeping on her friend’s couch with most of her possessions in a storage unit, Sandy was doing better than she had expected. Her newfound fame had even gotten her offers for small roles starting very soon.
Her anger and frustration had shown her hilarious comical side and she was being recognized in the local shops. This was only the beginning for Sandy.
A New Home
A month later, Sandy was working again and had enough money to move off Micahel’s couch and to her new apartment. She was also regularly gigging at a comedy club and the stability of that ensured she could pay higher rent than before.
When her landlord gave her the ultimatum of raising the rent by three hundred pounds and subsequently kicking her out, she was devastated. However, looking back on it in her comfortable new apartment, she could see it was simply the beginning of a wonderful change for her.