There have been multiple articles about him over the last few years and even a Prime Time Investigates episode.
He’s still at it the scumbag.
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I don’t think this whole situation will end well for that family. We don’t like that sort of behaviour.
Computer engineer Salvador Chavez Morales arrived in Dublin with dreams of getting ahead in the global tech hub. He was attracted, like many Latin Americans, by visas allowing applicants to study English while working part-time.
Six weeks later he was running short of food and faced the prospect of being turned out on the street. A letting agency had retained €1,146 of the savings he had painstakingly built up over years of work in his native Mexico and had issued him with an eviction notice. The reason? He had objected to a CCTV camera that recorded live footage in his kitchen. To push through the eviction and force him to leave the property, the agency then removed his bed and bedroom door.
Naomi O’Leary of the Irish Times reports on the Dublin based landlord Marc Godart reveals how he uses CCTV within properties and avoids RTB fines.
Salvador had become entangled in the property business of controversial Luxembourg landlord Marc Godart, who employs Spanish-speaking staff to post ads for beds on Spanish-language chat groups and social media pages, shepherding Ireland’s new arrivals towards the website roombookingsxl.com amid a dire shortage of affordable housing in the capital.
A new investigation by The Irish Times, drawing on the accounts of a whistleblower who worked for Godart and some of his former tenants, sheds new light on practices within his operation and his treatment of migrants who have recently arrived in Ireland. The Luxembourg businessman did not respond to queries around the issues that have arisen in this investigation.
Why is there no criminal conviction for this?
If a landlord is repeatedly found to engage in undesirable activity, is there some mechanism to “strike them off the rolls”, or like how Directors are banned for sitting of a board for X years?
So, he’s pretending to be Airbnb in contracts? I’m surprised they haven’t come down on him legally like a tonne of bricks.
How does he get away with putting cameras inside the homes and why would he even want to anyway? Is this some kind of prevy fetish thing, stalking people as they go about their daily lives?
It should fall under EUDP rules.
That’s an absolutely grim read. This fella should be locked up for good. See how he likes living under the conditions he subjects people to. Fuck landlords. All of em
Iv said it before and i will say it again. Fines in this country are OPTIONAL.
How can he be allowed to get away with this? What law needs to change so we can relieve him of his property and the money he’s gotten through these measures?
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There have been multiple articles about him over the last few years and even a Prime Time Investigates episode.
He’s still at it the scumbag.
Paywalled
I don’t think this whole situation will end well for that family. We don’t like that sort of behaviour.
Computer engineer Salvador Chavez Morales arrived in Dublin with dreams of getting ahead in the global tech hub. He was attracted, like many Latin Americans, by visas allowing applicants to study English while working part-time.
Six weeks later he was running short of food and faced the prospect of being turned out on the street. A letting agency had retained €1,146 of the savings he had painstakingly built up over years of work in his native Mexico and had issued him with an eviction notice. The reason? He had objected to a CCTV camera that recorded live footage in his kitchen. To push through the eviction and force him to leave the property, the agency then removed his bed and bedroom door.
Naomi O’Leary of the Irish Times reports on the Dublin based landlord Marc Godart reveals how he uses CCTV within properties and avoids RTB fines.
Salvador had become entangled in the property business of controversial Luxembourg landlord Marc Godart, who employs Spanish-speaking staff to post ads for beds on Spanish-language chat groups and social media pages, shepherding Ireland’s new arrivals towards the website roombookingsxl.com amid a dire shortage of affordable housing in the capital.
A new investigation by The Irish Times, drawing on the accounts of a whistleblower who worked for Godart and some of his former tenants, sheds new light on practices within his operation and his treatment of migrants who have recently arrived in Ireland. The Luxembourg businessman did not respond to queries around the issues that have arisen in this investigation.
Why is there no criminal conviction for this?
If a landlord is repeatedly found to engage in undesirable activity, is there some mechanism to “strike them off the rolls”, or like how Directors are banned for sitting of a board for X years?
So, he’s pretending to be Airbnb in contracts? I’m surprised they haven’t come down on him legally like a tonne of bricks.
How does he get away with putting cameras inside the homes and why would he even want to anyway? Is this some kind of prevy fetish thing, stalking people as they go about their daily lives?
It should fall under EUDP rules.
That’s an absolutely grim read. This fella should be locked up for good. See how he likes living under the conditions he subjects people to. Fuck landlords. All of em
Iv said it before and i will say it again. Fines in this country are OPTIONAL.
How can he be allowed to get away with this? What law needs to change so we can relieve him of his property and the money he’s gotten through these measures?