Ray White sacking: Brisbane agent Aimee Marsh claims she was mocking ‘no one’ trolls, not tenants – and has been a longtime renter herself

Aimee Therese Marsh (pictured) was a promoting agent at Ray White Aspley

A sacked actual property agent claims she was mocking merciless trolls and never renters when she lashed out in opposition to ‘nobodies’ on Facebook.

Aimee Therese Marsh, 30, was a promoting agent at Ray White Aspley, close to Griffin in Brisbane‘s north, till Tuesday final week when she was fired for writing disparaging comments about tenants.

In line with a collection of screenshots, which have since been deleted, she stated renters who make $50,000 a 12 months are ‘envious’ of her, and urged her tax payments cowl their Centrelink funds.

Ms Marsh appeared to double-down on her feedback when talking with media on Thursday, saying she was ‘not sorry’ and urged people who don’t own homes aren’t willing to make ‘sacrifices’.

Nevertheless, the Griffin native informed Each day Mail Australia on Monday that her feedback had been solely focused at trolls who relentlessly attacked her in an area Fb group – they weren’t common feedback about Australians who hire.

Ms Marsh additionally stated she rented a number of properties earlier than she determined to purchase a house in March this 12 months – including that she used to have housemates, and labored three jobs to avoid wasting sufficient to enter the market.

‘My pals and a few members of the family hire, a few of my purchasers develop into renters after they promote,’ she stated.

‘I’ve had quite a few of my present tenants in properties I’ve been promoting attain out in constructive methods to say I’m not that individual these on-line individuals say I’m.’

Ms Marsh (pictured) rented a number of properties earlier than she determined to purchase a house in March this 12 months

Ms Marsh says she was referring to on-line trolls when she stated ‘they’re tenants’ who earn $50,000 a 12 months

Ms Marsh stated the scenario began about one-and-a-half years in the past, when she wrote a submit within the native group to say she bought a home $85,000 above the reserve at public sale – one thing she usually did as a result of locals had been .

‘It had nothing to do with me – there have been two patrons who had been battling it out between one another,’ she defined in an interview with native Brisbane radio station, B105, on Friday.

‘Sadly, that bought individuals offside who really feel prefer it’s my fault that they can not get into the housing market due to the costs. 

‘After which I began changing into the blame for gas and groceries, and all the pieces else, so the feedback that had been made had been very focused at me and really impolite.’

Ms Marsh labored with Ray White for lower than a 12 months when the web assaults started in 2021 – she had by no means been trolled on-line earlier than, so she fought again saying they had been ‘nobodies’ with low incomes.

Her bosses discovered about her responses and gave her social media coaching to assist her cope with these conditions sooner or later, however she stated the coaching did not cowl focused on-line bullying.

She stated the screenshots along with her feedback didn’t present the complete context of the dialog – significantly the elements the place she tried to assist the trolls by offering details about lenders, and common recommendation for borrowing.

Ms Marsh stated she could not ‘wait to promote the homes they hire’ in one other remark (pictured), when referring to individuals who mocked her in a Fb group

Ms Marsh stated she ultimately bought sick of it and determined to combat again – slamming her trolls as ‘jealous’ and saying ‘I can not wait to promote their homes’. 

In her radio interview final week, she acknowledged she ought to have walked away from the scenario, however stated she was not ashamed of her resolution to combat again

‘Generally I want I used to be large enough to stroll away from that type of stuff, however I imply, there’s lots of historical past in my previous that makes me who I’m as we speak and I am not going to apologise for having a spine,’ she stated.

‘Those who’re focusing on me are simply bullies who sit at dwelling with nothing higher to do, and that’s the reason I stated, perhaps in the event that they labored as arduous as they did spend their time on social media, they’ve most likely be capable of purchase a house.’

Ms Marsh stated she wasn’t sorry to the trolls who her feedback had been directed at, however stated ‘I am sorry to the nation who assume it was a generalised remark as a result of it wasn’t’.

On Tuesday, Ray White posted an announcement to Fb saying Ms Marsh’s employment had been ‘terminated instantly’.

A spokesperson for Ray White informed Each day Mail Australia she was fired ‘inside about an hour’ of when the company’s social media staff discovered her feedback.

‘We respect and worth every one inside our neighborhood, and we’ve got a giant neighborhood of people that hire.

‘The views of Aimee Marsh don’t align with the values of our enterprise.

‘We present delight in our customer support, we’ve got a giant neighborhood of renters, and we do not tolerate something like this.’ 

Ms Marsh stated her employer didn’t examine the bullying earlier than they fired her.