Rogue landlord pitched TENT in tenant’s garden and lived there for 2 months after sending text saying she’s ‘the owner’

A ROGUE landlord set up camp in her tenant’s back garden and stayed there for two months, telling them she was “the owner”.

Nicky and William had been living in the rented home in Yamba in New South Wales, Australia, with their three young children for two months when Pascale Hubert told them she would be setting up camp in the backyard.



"Dear Nicky and William, I am the owner. As of tonight I will be occupying the rear yard," Pascale texted the couple. 

Pascale and her partner moved into the garden of the four-bedroom, two-bathroom house on Christmas Day last year and refused to leave.

The backyard had a shed but no running water or a toilet.

"I noticed they've got a bucket, been doing poos and wees in the bucket. It's disgusting," William said.

The couple then suddenly left in their black ute once the council stepped in, threatening to fine them if they stayed, after A Current Affair highlighted their situation.

"You’ll be lucky to be breathing by the time I’m f*****g finished with you," 'Mr McDonald' was filmed saying as he prepared to leave the property. 

The landlord and her partner are said to have gone to Sydney, according to local reports.

CHILDREN 'TERRIFIED'

Nicky said the young children were left "terrified" after a previous aggressive outburst from the landlord's partner.

The tenants filmed the heated exchange after the man ordered them to move their car so he could get to the back of the house.

"Listen here, s*** for brains, I've given you a warning, move that frigging car now, you are in big s***," he said.

He also dragged the trampoline out of the garden and installed gates, according to reports.

Nicky said at the time the cops told her they were "powerless" to force the pair off the property.

"It's day 11 of them living in the backyard. It's completely bizarre to everybody we tell," Nicky told A Current Affair at the time.

"Police and real estate don't know what to do.

COPS 'POWERLESS'

'"Our children are terrified, they keep asking, 'Who are they?' and we can't give them any answers."

She added: "The police are telling us that the real estate should be physically removing these people and the real estate are saying they can't do that."

Pascale said she was allowed to take over the garden with a teepee tent as the rental contract does not include the backyard.

Under the $560-a-week lease agreement, the contract reportedly included the phrase: "Rear yard is not included."

But Leo Patterson Ross, chief executive of Tenants Union of NSW, said the landlord and her partner could be trespassing.

"It could be that the landlord is trespassing whenever they go across that driveway area because they are entering into a place that they've given someone else possession," he said.

"At the end of the day while the lease says that the backyard isn't included the landlord has to go down the driveway that the lease doesn't talk about and what the lease also promises the tenant is reasonable peace, comfort and privacy in their home."

Clarence Valley Council said in a statement: "They were advised that occupying the property for longer than is permissible may result in Council issuing an infringement notice.

"Mrs. Hubert contacted us immediately on receipt of the letter to advise she was unaware of the regulation and apologised for staying longer than permissible."


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