This apartment had bad ‘fung’ shui.
Cousins Alissa Barton, 32, and Lara Norbury, 24, were forced to flee their $1,650-a-month apartment after discovering massive mushrooms growing through their floor.
The roommates claim no mushrooms were visible when they moved into the UK property, but they soon saw the fungus growing behind their television with more sprouting up through their floorboards in the coming weeks.
“It’s started with one tiny one and it just bloomed so quick. Within six to eight weeks it went from one to 15 at least – that we can see,” Barton told SWNS.
Worried that the mushrooms would impact her health, Barton reached out to the real estate agent who leased her the apartment with photos of the growing disaster.
However, the agent appeared to the cousins to be full of shittake.
“She just emailed me back and said ‘it’s probably just a bit cold and damp in that particular area… It just needs removing and the area needs wiping down with a surface cleaner’.
“I was disgusted – it’s not my job to remove fungus and stuff when I’m paying [$1,650] a month to live here,” Barton added.
The odor in the apartment grew worse as the weeks wore on, and the cousins were forced to move out of their home.
“It absolutely stinks. The house is just damp and freezing cold, it stinks and we’ve both suffered with really bad headaches the past few months,” Barton said.
A representative for Bridgfords, the realty company managing the property, denied that they had been notified of the mushroom problem, and put the blame on the cousins for not reporting the issue correctly.
“We of course want to ensure all repairs are handled correctly and promptly, in this instance the full extent of the issue was not known.”
The company vowed to raise the floorboards and inspect for moisture now that the property had been vacated.