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A trampoline was also left behind

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A Queensland landlord whose property was ‘abandoned’ has listed his former tenants belongings on social media.

But he isn’t planning to make any major profits from the sale – just “enough for a carton”.

Located in Townsville, photographs on Marketplace show rooms packed high with crates and boxes full of random items, books, pots and pans, a damaged couch with what appear to be two TVs and three remotes, pedestal fans, eskies, and rubbish and dirt everywhere.

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Outside there is a worse-for-wear table, trampoline, lawnmower and whipper snipper.

“Abandoned rental property. Everything to give away or small donation appreciated for better items. Hoping to get enough for a carton,” the listing says.

“You deserve more than a carton for having to sort all that out,” one poster said.

Further posts suggest the tenant was evicted by court order.

It come after a Queensland landlord was left with an estimated $30,000 clean-up bill after her tenant fled, leaving behind maggots, rubbish, poo and sanitary pads.

The landlady, who has taken the matter to court, said her insuere wouldn’t even inspect the damage until the worst of the rubbish was removed.

It comes as Queensland’s rental crisis pushes good tenants to the brink, with a lack of supply forcing up rents across much of the state.

Pots and pans were left behind in the Townsville rental

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Desperate tenants are being forced to compete against dozens of other applicants, with some of those missing out sleeping in cars and caravan parks.

Brisbane’s vacancy rate sits at an unhealthy 0.8 per cent, and it is not much better in other parts of the state – Gold Coast (1%), Cairns (0.8%), Townsville (1.5%), and Sunshine Coast (1.2%).

The mower didn’t get much use

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