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September 14, 2025 11 mins

Button Pusher Burgo has put his home up for holiday rental with an ad that makes it sound much better than it actually is! This has triggered listeners to call in with their holiday rental horror stories!

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I heard podcasts here more mixed one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the free iHeart
app Burjo.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Ye, Burgo has done something a little bit silly and
I actually can't believe that he's done it. But he's
done it and there's no turning back. He has put
his house just while he's staying at his ex's.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
House help me look after the BB Yeah, just.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Having a beautiful time.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
He hasn't been living at home, so he's put his
house on Airbnb just for fun, right, well, for fun
and just to see what happens.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Financial gain obviously.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, I get it. People put their houses on Airbnb
when they're not living in it.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Sense, this was a very last minute thought. Bergo was
lying in bed and was like, I'm just gonna see
what happens. I'm going to use old photos of my
house when it was all styled perfectly before I moved
in with my family and filled it up with hoarder material.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, this is where we run into issues with your
listing because we both know your house.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
This appears to be written by real estate agents.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Did you listen to chat DPT No.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
I did it myself, using my own inspiration and creativity.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
The most embellishment you could possibly put on something. And
the pictures that Haley mentions, a lot of them are
from when the house was previously listed for purchase.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
There's a photo of the kitchen it doesn't even have
a fridge in the cavity and style.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
There's one photo of your daughter's bedroom where that you
didn't even bother to make the bed. It's just a messy,
foul photo of a room. Amongst all these beautiful style photos.
Have you got bookings?

Speaker 5 (01:44):
Well? So the problem is that I put it up
just to see how easy it was. I was like,
I just want to go through the process, and surely
there's an approval process and they want to find out
if you're a criminal or not. So I put it
up at eight o'clock at night. Then I woke up
to go to the toilet, and at one am I
looked and I'd had three bookings.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
It's because you've written things like this step into modern
luxury and unparalleled convenience in this bright, expansive and well
kept home.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Where's the convenience that the Arnest factory is across the road.

Speaker 5 (02:16):
No, it's that it's in between the city and the sea.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, well you're listening. You're listing.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Does say the convenience includes ten It says ten one
zero m like ten meters from the beach and from
the city.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
My favorite is when you said about expansive views and
then you said, you know it was lovely outdoor furniture
and a secondary grass backyard.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
It's lined with lemon trees and lily fings.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Do you have either of those things in your backyard?
I have some form of square, a square of yard.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
It's not a backyard, it's a square.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
It's a postage.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
You're leading people astray grass backyard.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
I think it scares me.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
The way I feel sick is I'd be like, people
are coming from inter state to stay your house, and
they were like, cool, I've got accommodations sorted, everything's done.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Meanwhile, you've never even done this before.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, you've got all your furniture and all your kids
toys and your clothes are all in the cupboard.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Everything's there.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Yeah, I've got a dick next couple of weeks cleaning
that out.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
I'm looking forward to utilizing the well appointed kitchen to
create my own meals.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, it's a kitchen.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
It's a home away from home. It is a home
away from home.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
The home away from home.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
With modern conveniences line.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
With lemon trees. It's just like two lemons that he's born.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
It's lime or lemon. I'm not quite sure because they
change color and there's antele in them, so I don't
know what's going on there, but they exist.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Does it not concern you, Burjo that someone is going
to book out your house.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
They're going to come and stay and then they're going
to give you a bad review because there's nothing like.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
What I have. I have my first booking. There's three
locked in. I've got one in twelve days, and I've
done nothing to prepare for whmbers.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
The last time you mowed the lawn.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
Ah, they're probably up to my knees right now, the lawn.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
And that's not a joke.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
And he's got long legs.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
He's long legs, all right.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
So this leads us to airbnb disasters, the rental disasters.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
I just wanted to see and it might have backfired
a little bit.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Third A one O two three.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
We want to give you one hundred dollars food Landboutcher
if you have ever booked in Airbnb or a holiday
rental and it has not gone to plan.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Maybe it wasn't lined with lily pillies and lemon trees.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, and online it was like expansive views, but it
was literally just.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
A matchbox, just a dungeon.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
If this has happened to you, thirteen one o two
three holiday rental disasters. Burjo's put his home up on Airbnb.
Now he's written it like he's a real estate agent.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
And you've got to sell the property.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, yeah, well you're excellent at that.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
I can't wait to step into modern luxury and unparalleled
convenience in a bright, expansive and well kept home.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Personally, that's what I can't wait for.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Quote, your comfort, safety, and convenience is at the forefront
of everything we do.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
Like I'm the mantrack.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Can I just say at the moment, it's derelict and
I know this because I've been there, because you haven't
been there, and like it's like a decease the state.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
You haven't been there about six months. But he's renting
it out.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
People are booking it having no idea that he's used
old photos to style it.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, they've booked a place because in the description it
says it's got a secondary grass backyard lined with lemon
trees and lily pillies. It doesn't have lily pilise. It
doesn't have lemon trees and the grass backyard is all weeds.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
No, it does. When I say lined with, there's one
citrus tree, I'm not sure what it is and one
lily pilly, so it's not really lined with, but it has.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Them in there, and it's the size of a TV.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
So that is the Airbnb disaster story waiting to happen.
We want to know if you've had one already. Airbnb
any holiday rentals really. Nicole in Modbury's called in on
thirteen one oh two three, Nicole, give us your disaster.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
When you went to Perth, Good morning guys.

Speaker 6 (05:51):
We booked through bookings dot com. Everything looked beautiful, nice
and central. We got there, our one hundred and fifty
dollars deposits turned into a three hundred dollars deposit. Our
room head, bodily hair in the bed, mold in the
shower yard, dirty dishes that I couldn't been clean because
the spunge was dirty. People running up and down the hallway.

(06:12):
We think drug deals in the car park awesome, and
it was just ridiculous when we complain. I've done it since,
but I definitely make sure that I do more than
just read the reviews. Because the reviews were from the
same people that are in the hotel, and they got
good ones. They turned around and said that we weren't

(06:34):
getting our deposit back. In the end, I threatened them
and they gave it back, and we found out that
they'd actually taking three hundred dollars, not one hundred and fifty.
And we ended up having to read book somewhere else
and it cost us about twelve hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
What a night mare is what scares me.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
You're lying to people online.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
It's not lying, it's misleading. And I've got a tactic.
You want to hear my tactic? Yeah, My tactic is
to leave on the kitchen bench a nice letter that
says welcome to Adelaide and also a pack of like
fruit chocks. So they go, oh, that's nice, and then
hopefully they overlook some of the other.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Things and then they go to throw the fruit chocks
wrapper out to the overflowing bins or something.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Mate, Okay, Holiday Rental Disaster Stories thirteen, one oh two
three that is our number.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
We're talking about this because mate.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Burgoh on the studio has put his house up on
Airbnb and just been lied about the whole thing. It's
tree lined with lemon trees and grassy areas and expansive views.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
It's not a lie. It's just an elaboration.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
There are pictures on there from when the house was styled,
when he bought it years and years ago, before he
moved in with his daughter.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
Yeah, there's a couple of actual little dings in the walls,
but it's mostly the same. And also it's bigger than
a hotel room. Shots a win win, is it?

Speaker 4 (07:54):
Those?

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Give us your story thirty one two three Holiday rental
disasters Kim in Morphotville.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
What happened when you went to Surfers Paradise?

Speaker 7 (08:03):
Oh, my goodness, So it was terrible. They said it
had been upgraded and everything, but it was like nineteen
fifties everything, even the stove, everything, And then like it.

Speaker 8 (08:18):
Looked nice and clean until I went to.

Speaker 7 (08:21):
Get a cup out of the cupboard and the cupboard
fell off the wall and the wall was just covered
in black and clockroaches. They they were flying everywhees, they
were running all over the walls and oh my god,
it just freaked us out. Oh, we just got out

(08:45):
of there. We just got out of there. We got
our we ended up getting our money back, but oh
my gosh, we had to go somewhere else.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
Even the n paradise is very misleading.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
A lot of paradise, you very much.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Osborne coincidentally also a Gold Coast related story.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
What happened Trace?

Speaker 9 (09:09):
Oh, yes, we went to the Gold Coast last year.
The photos looked amazing and we arrived late due to
our air like our plane problems over here of attire
being fixed. Got there at like eight thirty at night
when it was raining and cold, picked our tea up
from a dropbox. As soon as you walked into this
the apartment that we couldn't wait to all go to
sleep in, the smell was so bad, like the plate

(09:31):
had had severe water damage. Then as you sort of
went in further, it was like someone had got milo.
It was like a dirt, brown dirt throughout the whole apartment,
all over all the carpets. The lounge is actually splashed
and it was so huge. Truth, yes, it had a
big gash on it, like it was cut with the

(09:55):
bedside tables were like all peeled and everything and all
scratched up and things like that. The bed was like
the sheep had never been cleaned, and there was like
white marks all over the side of it was like.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
A it doesn't stul list.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Was there literally anything in there that was clean?

Speaker 9 (10:17):
No, there wasn't. And we're actually considering sleeping with our
kids in the car for the night.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, God get you.

Speaker 9 (10:25):
No. They didn't end up giving us back our money, unfortunately,
and we ended up staying somewhere else due to it
would have been a health condition.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh my gosh, that's found. I'm so sorry for bringing
up those repressed memories. Tracy can't.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
If you're going to have to do with this soon,
burgo with your own health. My plate hazard sitting people compared.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
To these No, mate, Uh, Katie and Grange, wats your story?

Speaker 8 (10:46):
So we're on the other side of it.

Speaker 10 (10:48):
My family had a holiday rental for twenty five years
and it was just disastrous. Oh no fountenance, Oh everything,
we had, barbecues thrown in the pool, glass shattered all
through the pool. My parents had to drain the intern
and it from fifteen to twenty minute vanishing edge.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Pool as well, it's beautiful.

Speaker 8 (11:06):
They it was, and they had to drain and trials
are ripped off the pool walls. Cord Soleen from the
TVs the Stereos Appliances House Solen.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
What advice do you have for Burjo who's about to
rent out his house and the tenants?

Speaker 8 (11:22):
Oh, gosh, do it. No, you can do it. Just
make sure that you've got people that can vouch for them.

Speaker 5 (11:29):
Probably, yeah, except one booking who's got no previous Airbnb.

Speaker 8 (11:35):
I think it's the risk you take, really, but with
a good bond and everything. We had tenants that wanted
to come in and they complained about the bugs. It's like,
you live in it's in the country, and you want
your money back because of the millipedes and the bugs. Like,
what do you expect?

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, yeah, take it out on the pool. I guess
they're a barbecue in there.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Whatever you go to do, make yourself feel better, all right,
Thank you, ky So
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