I guess you have to sleep in a park on the weekends

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  1. I can’t imagine the person on the flip side of this. Who wants to come home at the weekend to a bed that’s been slept in by someone else?

  2. Would you have to take all belongings with you every weekend too? Is this commonplace?
    I have never heard of this previously.

  3. How the fuck is this allowed? I remember when I was first looking in Cork and Dublin 7 years ago daft had an abundance of these shitty lets. I guess things haven’t changed.

  4. I’d be really grossed out having to sleep in a bed that someone else sleeps in at the weekend, washed or not

    I’d also be really grossed out having to come home and sleep in my own bed, after my parents or someone rented it out during the week to someone

  5. Not sure why people are having an issue with this? This is ideal for somebody that needs to work in the city but doesn’t want to live in the city. It’s very popular in London. I live in Dublin but have to work in London during the week, my entire family is here and my wife works in Dublin so I can’t just uproot everybody and move nor would I want to. I need the place literally to sleep in Monday night through to Thursday. I have an office to go to so no need to be there after breakfast. All I needed was a bed. Costs for a “spare room” in London range from £500 through to £800pm.

    It’s still cheaper than Airbnb or a hotel AND you can leave your own personal belongings there so it’s ideal.

    There an entire housing engine devoted to it called Spare Room.

    https://m.spareroom.co.uk

    The deal I had with one couple was I had the spare room from Monday to Thursday (I fly out Friday) and this couple came back from their work responsibilities in Spain on Friday and stayed the weekend, out again n Monday and I was in Monday night. They were archeologists or something. So it worked out perfectly.

    People need to stop looking everything so nefariously. Everybody has different lives and not everyone wants to live in the city BUT may still have to work there.

  6. And commute up 4am on Mondays.

    Drag your wheelie bag with you all day on Friday because you can’t come back before commuting.

    That’s extra unreasonable not allowing someone up the Sunday evening at least.

  7. Why? Just why is this weekend non occupy the house deal thrown in to these contracts? What’s going on at the weekends at these houses?. What’s going on at all?

  8. That’s only four nights – if you can find a hotel room for less than 135 a night it would be cheaper.

  9. This type of rental use to be very common. Often for tradies, students or people in some type of medium – short term placement. I did it during apprenticeship training. It’s easy to shit on it but if it’s suits someone’s needs and is good/clean condition why is there an issue?

  10. Imagine seeing this 10 years ago or even 5, Joe Duffy would be on the case in about 5 minutes absolutely ripping the landlord out of it live on radio, Imagine Vincent Brown with today’s politicians!

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