Bondi hoarder house: Bobolas family turns up to court with $170k cash but magistrate orders sale

THE Bondi hoarders have lost their last minute legal bid to stop their house being sold despite turning up to court with more than $170,000 in a plastic shopping bag to show they could pay their debts.

Elena Bobolas, her mother Mary and sister Liana have lost a last minute legal bid to save their Bondi home.

THE Bondi hoarders have lost their last minute legal bid to stop their house being sold despite turning up to court with more than $170,000 in a plastic shopping bag to show they could pay their debts.

Despite only having $5 in the bank, Elena Bobolas, her mother Mary and sister Liana showed Magistrate Joanne Keogh a grey plastic bag of $100 notes they said was $177,000 given to them by mysterious friends to stop Waverley Council from selling their home to pay for legal fees and clean up costs.

Elena Bobolas leaves court holding a plastic bag filled with cash. Picture: Stephen Cooper

The collection of items hoarded at the Bondi house.

The Boonara Ave home, which is piled high with junk, was set to be sold at auction on Thursday night but it was stopped after Elena Bobolas made a last minute stay application.

This afternoon Magistrate Keogh dismissed the stay application on the sale of the home saying that although $170,000 was an “extraordinary offer” made by friends it was on the proviso that the Bobolas family would use it to pay off the debt in instalments over five to six years.

“Whether in fact that offer would remain this afternoon, tomorrow, next month, it seems to me (the applicant Elena Bobolas) is still in some peril as to whether the debt will be paid.”

The Bobolas family hide under umbrellas as they walk out of court. Picture: Stephen Cooper

The Bondi Hoarders house at Boonara Ave, Bondi is earmarked to be sold at auction.

The three woman became angry when Ms Keogh dismissed the application with Liana shouting out that the Council were “thieves”.

“They are thieves your honour and this court is supporting that,” she shouted.

The house is expected to be put back on the market in the next few weeks and is likely to fetch about $2 million.

The buyer would have to be responsible for cleaning up the mounds of rubbish from the property.