Aye, I figured we needed the millionth thread on this I know, it’s more a vent than anything.

I’ve heard horror stories about the Dublin housing market and don’t get me wrong, the prices are steep but that’s not even what’s annoying me.

It’s these Mickey Mouse rentals that are pulling the absolute piss.

Look at [this](https://www.daft.ie/share/13-roselawn-glade-castleknock-dublin-15/3914818) one, for example. 480 (decent price but the same as I’m paying for a much nicer place in Galway atm), for 5 days a week and no access to cooking facilities or place to store your food?? Might as well double your rent on the cost of Deliveroo and Just Eat alone. Doesn’t even seem to be legal, from a quick glance on google.

Seems like half the places I look at are hosted by absolute chancers looking for 600-700 bean a month just to rent the house out for 5 days a week. Then the other half are full of crap, tiny, overpriced rooms.

I’m lucky enough that the cost isn’t really that much of an issue for me but you’d imagine that you’d at least get some sort of decent housing if you’re going to fork out 700 or 800 euro a month.

Fairly grim, really put a damper on my excitement to move up.

But yeah, at least my excitement is all I have to worry about. A grim situation if you have to survive off minimum wage or the like.

16 comments

  1. Yea its disgusting, I don’t think it is even legal…everyone should ring her and tell her what a greedy,profiteering sh#t she is. Landlords are needed and do serve a purpose but this just takes the biscuit.

    I hope karma comes back and bites her in the ass.

  2. That place is owner occupied, you’d be a licensee and essentially a guest in their home. Meaning their house, their rules. The fact they are upfront about the rules in the advert is a good thing, rather than wasting people’s time.

  3. That’s an absolute joke to be barred from using and food preparation facilities or even allowed store your own food?
    How and why are there no regulations being applied/enforced here? Surely this can be reported somewhere?

  5. There’s so much wrong with our housing market.

    > You can’t do anything with the house. Ask permission to hang a picture. Can’t paint, etc. This basically limits how at home you can feel in the house. In many other rental cultures you can decorate the place to your liking. Some don’t even allow house guests/ partners
    (I know there are exceptions)

    > The increasing level of fuckery: like this post, you rent the bed and bathroom more than anything else.

    > Cramming as many people into one area as possible. One place I viewed in bohermore in 2019 had 9 people living in it. Nine strangers. In an attached house with 5 bedrooms.

    > The low quality for high rents. Made worse by the lack of options leading to people taking the piss.

    > A lack of oversight on where you can advertise, what you can advertise & what you can charge for space.

    > The sheer lack of options for an adult to live alone in rental spaces. There’s barely any one bed and very few two beds. And the ones that exist are crazy expensive.

    The whole system is broken

  6. Would it be possible for the government to come in and impose a rent cap – just an outright cap of say €450 per month per room/per room per house? I always think this but don’t know if it isn’t done because of greed, political opposition or if our laws just wouldn’t allow for it? Can someone explain?

  7. Like I get the mon to fri if its a student nurse or something like that and goes home for the weekend but imagine doing a 12 hour shift and not being able to cook for yourself in your own home that your paying over the odds for aswell.

    I just think it’s inhumane and cruel to treat people like that.

  8. This was my main issue – the rent prices were one thing, my bigger issue was how shit the quality was. No matter what sum of money you wanted to pay, it’s nearly impossible to get somewhere actually genuinely nice. That’s why it annoys me sometimes seeing SF give out about build to let’s because at least they’re decent quality and well insulated etc? I think they’re much less likely to turn into tenements than the absolute shit tier decaying houses that private landlords rent out.

  10. We don’t want Build To Rent run by large multinationals

    We don’t want Smalltime Landlords

    What do we want?

  11. I’ve come across a lot of these, including a self contained apartment where I was told den didn’t want me listening to music out loud working from home, being there in the evening, or at the weekends

    I was like why the fuck would I rent the place then, I’ll never again deal with a landlord that isn’t a professional or an estate agent, it can get very messy if someone is renting out a place they have an emotional attachment to

  12. Hardly anything was built from 2012 – 2021. The backlog of supply is so off-the-charts that it’ll be 2027/28 before the housing market, especially in urban areas, looks normal again.

    The effort gone into increasing supply is huge. But there’s still a finite amount of workers, and material costs have gone through the roof.

    We’ll probably complete almost 40,000 new properties this year and it’ll barely make a dent. Only when we’ve added about 500,000 new properties to the market will we see any real changes to supply / demand.

    Note: yes, I’m affected by it too. It’s insane. We had to move back to Dublin after covid for work and our rent is €2,400 a month.

    Let people work remotely! If even 10% more of the workforce could work remotely, that would ease up a lot of the pressure on high-demand areas!

  14. I blame the rent a room scheme to an extent as having unearthed all these chancers out of the woodwork.

    14k a year basically tax free so it pays their mortgage and probably then some while they can impose ridiculous restrictions meaning the person can’t actually live there.

  16. I’ve had some nasty experiences living in an owner occupied house.

    I’d have to be very desperate to live with the owner again.

    Which I am.
    Desperate.

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