One person’s rent is another person’s ~~income~~ travel fund
In this case both the landlord and the squatter are idiots for differnet reasons.
So… Why did he wait so long to get rid of squatter
It is mind blowing to me to think that you can rent your house for enough money that you can travel around the world on it (on a budget). I mean all you are doing is providing a roof over someone’s head. If that isn’t a sign that the whole thing is completely fucked up I don’t know. Free up land, build infrastructure and form new towns. We are still a sparsely populated country.
Independent trying to be as rage-baity as possible.
What does the landlords spending habits have to do with it?
What an unbelievably baity headline. Maximum outrage everyone!
What a headline. It’s fairly clear the article is aimed for people who have sympathies for the guy who didn’t pay his bill.
I can’t read it. But first I was like, how tf does someone rack up that much rent debt? Then I remembered the price of rent in this country
I know several people who have built mews or have second homes but have turned to Airbnb as they are afraid they won’t be able to evict non paying tenants.
Whether you agree with it, it’s a fact. Airbnb is not really restricted in Dublin so there’s nothing stopping them. They are afraid they will lose their investment.
What the landlord was doing is irrelevant. The tenant didn’t pay rent and the landlord was stung for it. I find the general distaste for landlords really weird. The population voted in FFG and yet hate landlords? Make your minds up people!
Serious question – why do any of you feel sympathy for the person who refuses to pay any rent? It’s basically a squatter at this point.
Ireland’s largest tabloid.
Not paying rents is very wrong however, I’ve yet to see a reasonably priced place. In my eyes, most landlords are price gouging scum, and I have ZERO sympathy for landlords now. I never thought I’d have this view.
Feel ashamed clicking into it 🙄
The real shocking think here is that a house outside Mallow can attract a rent of €1200 a month!
So the tenant moved in and within a matter of months stopped paying any rent? They did not pay rent for almost a year?
What does the landlords travel plans have to do with anything?
Since we have a Housing Emergency, and since long term homelessness is a death sentence, Ireland needs to re-introduce an eviction ban until the end of the Housing Emergency.
The lives of the Homeless are more important than Landlords profits.
Tenants who deliberately don’t pay rent seem to be only type of thieves that regularly get enthusiastic support from a whole section of society. Headlines like this feed that silly narrative. The person I this case isn’t Robin Hood.
I’m moving abroad soon and tenants like this is why I’m either selling my apartment or short term renting it. No way I’m I getting caught paying for someone to live rent free on my expense.
Based on the comments I see on this all the time: do people genuinely not know that landlords have to pay *half* what they take in rent in tax? If you ask me, that’s the reason rents are so high.
Landlord life 101, Australian trip is irrelevant to the issue. 
The person sharing these articles has masters to keep happy by posting this. Let’s chase the landlords while the real criminals get off while wrecking havoc and getting all the luck. “Look to those you can’t criticize” seen as it’s the landlords are the mainly the only ones getting the stick while those with pensions/ stocks / portfolios get off scot free
I have previously maintained that landlords need to be very careful and vet and screen potential tenants. I got some criticism for these views.
This is exactly why they need to do so.
The vast majority of landlords own a rental property or two that they were left in a will or as a pension. They are not multinational hedge funds.
And I guarantee you the landlord is going to get stuck with the loss of the legal costs as well as all the unpaid rent/damage.
Organisations such as the RTB for put into place specifically to catch out and punish Roque landlords whilst creating some more bureaucratic jobs for the boys. There needs to be a similar organisation to streamline and expedite the eviction and removal of bad tenants.
It’s simple as that.
Now this headline was engineered to incite rage, create intrigue and shift papers/subscriptions and that is disgraceful.
The headline could also have read,
Roque tenant refuses to vacate property after amassing €14,000 in unpaid rents.
And it’s not just the 14,000, is all the legal fees, the landlord is still insuring the property, paying management charges et cetera et cetera.
One man’s rwnt is another man’s income. You voted for it people
People defending the person squatting confuse me. Why would this person who can’t afford the rent live in this place in the first place if they can’t afford it. Lets assume they could afford it at the beginning, but circumstances changed (by loss of income of significant increase in rent) isn’t it still the tenants responsibility to go and find cheaper accomodation? I’m not saying that’s easier or anything. Context: im not a landlord and my rent is high. But I can afford it. If my landlord fucked me over or I lost my job, I’d have to go rent a room in a shared place so I could afford instead of entire apartment like I have now
See it’s important to know that the landlord was using the money for something you should find frivolous, that way the article can rage bait both anti landlord and anti bad tenant crowd for maximum engagement
I truly believe that tenants should enjoy strong rights around tenure, privacy, property condition etc. But once someone stops paying rent they should be fucked out within 60 days.
It is totally unfair to expect a landlord to subsidise someone’s life.
> The population voted in FFG and yet hate landlords (…)
Wrong… the majority of the population voted in FFG… the rest are on Reddit…
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1200 a month to live in Killavullen?!
Tough life for that landlord I guess.
One person’s rent is another person’s ~~income~~ travel fund
In this case both the landlord and the squatter are idiots for differnet reasons.
So… Why did he wait so long to get rid of squatter
It is mind blowing to me to think that you can rent your house for enough money that you can travel around the world on it (on a budget). I mean all you are doing is providing a roof over someone’s head. If that isn’t a sign that the whole thing is completely fucked up I don’t know. Free up land, build infrastructure and form new towns. We are still a sparsely populated country.
Independent trying to be as rage-baity as possible.
What does the landlords spending habits have to do with it?
What an unbelievably baity headline. Maximum outrage everyone!
What a headline. It’s fairly clear the article is aimed for people who have sympathies for the guy who didn’t pay his bill.
I can’t read it. But first I was like, how tf does someone rack up that much rent debt? Then I remembered the price of rent in this country
I know several people who have built mews or have second homes but have turned to Airbnb as they are afraid they won’t be able to evict non paying tenants.
Whether you agree with it, it’s a fact. Airbnb is not really restricted in Dublin so there’s nothing stopping them. They are afraid they will lose their investment.
What the landlord was doing is irrelevant. The tenant didn’t pay rent and the landlord was stung for it. I find the general distaste for landlords really weird. The population voted in FFG and yet hate landlords? Make your minds up people!
Serious question – why do any of you feel sympathy for the person who refuses to pay any rent? It’s basically a squatter at this point.
Ireland’s largest tabloid.
Not paying rents is very wrong however, I’ve yet to see a reasonably priced place. In my eyes, most landlords are price gouging scum, and I have ZERO sympathy for landlords now. I never thought I’d have this view.
Feel ashamed clicking into it 🙄
The real shocking think here is that a house outside Mallow can attract a rent of €1200 a month!
So the tenant moved in and within a matter of months stopped paying any rent? They did not pay rent for almost a year?
What does the landlords travel plans have to do with anything?
Since we have a Housing Emergency, and since long term homelessness is a death sentence, Ireland needs to re-introduce an eviction ban until the end of the Housing Emergency.
The lives of the Homeless are more important than Landlords profits.
Tenants who deliberately don’t pay rent seem to be only type of thieves that regularly get enthusiastic support from a whole section of society. Headlines like this feed that silly narrative. The person I this case isn’t Robin Hood.
I’m moving abroad soon and tenants like this is why I’m either selling my apartment or short term renting it. No way I’m I getting caught paying for someone to live rent free on my expense.
Based on the comments I see on this all the time: do people genuinely not know that landlords have to pay *half* what they take in rent in tax? If you ask me, that’s the reason rents are so high.
Landlord life 101, Australian trip is irrelevant to the issue. 
The person sharing these articles has masters to keep happy by posting this. Let’s chase the landlords while the real criminals get off while wrecking havoc and getting all the luck. “Look to those you can’t criticize” seen as it’s the landlords are the mainly the only ones getting the stick while those with pensions/ stocks / portfolios get off scot free
I have previously maintained that landlords need to be very careful and vet and screen potential tenants. I got some criticism for these views.
This is exactly why they need to do so.
The vast majority of landlords own a rental property or two that they were left in a will or as a pension. They are not multinational hedge funds.
And I guarantee you the landlord is going to get stuck with the loss of the legal costs as well as all the unpaid rent/damage.
Organisations such as the RTB for put into place specifically to catch out and punish Roque landlords whilst creating some more bureaucratic jobs for the boys. There needs to be a similar organisation to streamline and expedite the eviction and removal of bad tenants.
It’s simple as that.
Now this headline was engineered to incite rage, create intrigue and shift papers/subscriptions and that is disgraceful.
The headline could also have read,
Roque tenant refuses to vacate property after amassing €14,000 in unpaid rents.
And it’s not just the 14,000, is all the legal fees, the landlord is still insuring the property, paying management charges et cetera et cetera.
One man’s rwnt is another man’s income. You voted for it people
People defending the person squatting confuse me. Why would this person who can’t afford the rent live in this place in the first place if they can’t afford it. Lets assume they could afford it at the beginning, but circumstances changed (by loss of income of significant increase in rent) isn’t it still the tenants responsibility to go and find cheaper accomodation? I’m not saying that’s easier or anything. Context: im not a landlord and my rent is high. But I can afford it. If my landlord fucked me over or I lost my job, I’d have to go rent a room in a shared place so I could afford instead of entire apartment like I have now
See it’s important to know that the landlord was using the money for something you should find frivolous, that way the article can rage bait both anti landlord and anti bad tenant crowd for maximum engagement
I truly believe that tenants should enjoy strong rights around tenure, privacy, property condition etc. But once someone stops paying rent they should be fucked out within 60 days.
It is totally unfair to expect a landlord to subsidise someone’s life.
> The population voted in FFG and yet hate landlords (…)
Wrong… the majority of the population voted in FFG… the rest are on Reddit…
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