Since I have to look into renting now myself, I thought this might be useful to someone. Seeing a lot of this women only tennants bollocks on Daft.
Since I have to look into renting now myself, I thought this might be useful to someone. Seeing a lot of this women only tennants bollocks on Daft.
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God forbid women might not feel safe living with a strange man
I put a ad up saying the room was suitable for single occupancy as the apartment was really only suitable for 2 people , but the ad got taken down and I had to remove the phrase because it discriminates apparently, but if your male it’s fine
I have lived with some very strange women in shared accommodations over the years.Stressheads.
Do ya really want a landlord who doesn’t want you from the get go though? Lol
Well so they take down that part of the ad but they go through the rigmarole of meeting you and finding that they chose a woman out f all the applicants. I mean, it’s a waste of your time, really, isn’t it?
Are the ads for landlords / agents advertising a house for lease, or, is it a roomshare ad? Nuance there.
This only applies to landlords. Iirc, there’s a different rule for people renting out a room in the house they live in
Do you need to inform a landlord/agent if you have a child? Some agents are asking this on the application. Wouldn’t this be used for discrimination on family status? I’m finding it tough to get any replies on daft and I think it’s because I’m mentioning I have a child.
If they didn’t explicitly say it, they would likely still discriminate because preference is preference and you have the right to have opinions on who you want to rent with or to.
So why not just be explicit in the advertisement and save everyone involved the time?
I certainly can’t begrudge women preferring to only live with other other women.
It would generally be house share ads specifying gender. Landlords unlikely to care much about gender (unless maybe a young group of lads get lower priority etc. Which you can’t prove) as long as they get paid.
If it’s sharing, you do get to specify that, both as the other renter and as the landlord /landlady who just rents out a room in their property. It’s a different thing to a self-contained unit.
Being a woman and having had a couple of not so great experiences with males flatmates (to the point of locking myself in my room at night) I can understand why some women prefer sharing with other women, it’s not just some “bollocks” as you put it!
At least they tell you upfront so you don’t waste your time applying. People can remove these mentions from their houseshare ad but they will still choose based on their criteria…
being a man immediately excludes you from like 20% of ads on daft.
then you also have bunch of places that are essentially a total waste of time and bus fare cos they’ll say male/female but when you go out to view it there’s like 4 other female roommates and zero chance a man is gonna be picked
Landlords don’t have to give a reason for rejecting you as a tenant and even if they do, they’re unlikely to do it in writing. There’s no practical way to punish discriminatory landlords.
In fairness, my ma used to rent out a room and she had terrible experiences with several young lads attitude and them just breaking shit and generally leaving the place in a mad state by the time they moved out that it needed actual professional cleaning and ate up the reasonable rent she had collected. She just went women only and had no issue after that. It sucks but there are some mental lads out there that ruin it for the rest of us. I see why some people do it and I don’t blame them. Unless its some creep angling for a sex for rent situation.
Put an ad up for a houseshare in my home stating female only. A fella called me inquiring and it made me question why I would only be open to sharing with a female. So I changed the ad and took out ‘female only’. Fella called and came by for a tour of house/chat. All seemed fine then he texted me ‘you’re hot’. Ad changed back to female only. I know the vast majority of men are not like this.
Forcing your way into a house of female roommates who don’t want you there.
Well that’s not good.
Do you even know what you’re talking about?
I don’t blame anyone for wanting to filter by gender. Some prefer to live with males, others females for their own reasons – and everyone should be able to make that choice.
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Have you considered identifying as a woman? Under Ireland’s Self ID law you don’t need to undergo any sort of assessment or medical treatment!
Lets sort this thread by controversial.
Your reaction is why women want female roommates
If someone is sharing a room in their own house it’s entirely legal for them to discriminate in whatever way they want. They could literally post an ad ranking ethnic groups and sexual orientation in order of preference, and that would be entirely permissable within the legislation.
The logic is that we can’t and shouldn’t mandate equality within someone’s own home. People are (pretty) free to associate with (more or less) whomever they like.
Interestingly, the commonest place you’ll see this is on flatshare Facebook pages for foreign workers in Dublin, who’ll often specify what nationalities they want to live with. Totally legal.
Even with that they can leave”open” and answer back only who they want.
If I (20 F pansexual) was looking for shared accommodation I would feel uncomfortable living with strange men but that’s just me.
It’s 2022 man. Apply, get rejected cos it says Women Only, press charges for transphobia cos you identify as a woman, buy a house.