Fella I’m working with from India’s rent just went up by 100 quid a month because he got his own bed in a room with four others. Was sharing a bed for the last 2 years. Absolutely disgraceful carry on.
I feel for them, they’re being taken advantage of as easy targets but on the other hand they know what the situation is before they come here and still choose to come.
It’s really messed up. How can anyone who is public representive not understand how dire the situation is.
My Afro-Brazilian partner was in this exact scenario when we met 18 months ago, it was absolutely disgraceful.
Thankfully we got on so well after a few weeks I was able to move him into my family home in a nice suburb of Dublin! *(A little push back from the parents but I am sure they will come around to him living here, eventually! lol)*.
I was absolutely delighted to get him out of the shared bedroom. Slumlords are disgusting human beings and I feel for anybody be in this position now
Edit: Jeez thanks for the downvotes. Seems like sharing personal stories related to a thread are frowned upon on internet forums
It’s a disgrace.
I know of a case where students were three people to a room in bunk beds and they were charged for having guests overnight. Or they had to have no noise after 9pm. They weren’t even permitted to leave their bike inside out of the rain. The student in question was shocked when i told him student digs often come with food included. He asked could he put a table in the room to study and was told absolutely not.
The landlord make sure to try to get a close to taxable limit for student digs. One of the students finally came to the realization it was wrong and when he was leaving the landlord begged him to stay. Doubtless because she was robbing him and had the cheek to keep the deposit.
Some students are getting financially abused by absolutely heartless landlords. The unis aren’t much better. They told a landlord I’m friends with “why don’t you put a load of bunk beds”. The landlord I know would in no way do that simply because it’s not human as well as being a health hazard if there was ever a fire.
We should probably restrict the number of student visas we give out, for their own benefit.
Exploiting people for profit much ?
Ah yes, all these prodigious English language learners.
Is there a maximum number of occupants in a property? Or is ‘stack them high’ condoned by local government?
Anyone know why these students would want to come here? Must be better options elsewhere.
Where I hear people taking about building communities in cities, especially just house for married people with children, these are the people they are excluding. But they will happily use them as ‘nannies’, hospitality workers and retail while also making them commute hours to their jobs. It is not just an Irish thing but it sickens me that we allow it to happen here.
I used to rent out a room to for six hundred a month in Dublin 9 but everyone I rented to brought drugs into the house and mistreated the place.
A studio apartment in New York, where the grass is not always greener… for $650 per month.
We are getting shafted majorly.
And when everyone starts to fuck off to Aus again they will wonder why another generation is leaving.
I was renting a room in Leixlip and there were two lads who were robbed of their rent and deposit. One from Pakistan and another one from Spain who had close to 0 English. I told them to go to Gardai but one of them told him to go to RTB or whatever.
It’s absolutely insane
Fuck me, back about 12 years ago I was able to go half in on a big 2 bed apartment in the docks area near the Google HQ for like 800 a month. Private parking, utilities included, balcony that wrapped around 3 sides of the place.
Just checking now they’re looking 2300 for the tiny one bedrooms in the same building, anything that looks remotely similar is well over 3000 now.
I pay 650 pound for a house in belfast all to myself. My dog even has his own room, well it’s more of a walk in cupboard but I put his bed In there but he loves it.
I used to work as an ESL teacher.
They can go to Limerick or Waterford for much cheaper but they choose Dublin for the cosmopolitan lifestyle.
Fuck me and I’m renting out a full single room in my apartment for €700 p/m, what am I at?
I’m so curious as to how the people coming here, often from less well off countries, can afford to pay and live in Dublin while doing these language courses. It must be extraordinarily expensive and if they come from well off families or lucrative careers in their home countries then why are they tolerating living in these conditions?
Absolutely fucking atrocious
3 jobs to sleep in a fucking prison cell. Absolute state of this country.
Ah Dublin the City of Greed.
Why don’t they go somewhere else where they speak English that’s cheaper? Lots of options.
>I pay €700 for a bed in a room with four people’
Why is it that a cursory search on rent.ie shows on the first result a single room for 550,.?
Why would you pay 700 for 4 while in a room when you can have your own room alone for less?
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Fella I’m working with from India’s rent just went up by 100 quid a month because he got his own bed in a room with four others. Was sharing a bed for the last 2 years. Absolutely disgraceful carry on.
I feel for them, they’re being taken advantage of as easy targets but on the other hand they know what the situation is before they come here and still choose to come.
It’s really messed up. How can anyone who is public representive not understand how dire the situation is.
My Afro-Brazilian partner was in this exact scenario when we met 18 months ago, it was absolutely disgraceful.
Thankfully we got on so well after a few weeks I was able to move him into my family home in a nice suburb of Dublin! *(A little push back from the parents but I am sure they will come around to him living here, eventually! lol)*.
I was absolutely delighted to get him out of the shared bedroom. Slumlords are disgusting human beings and I feel for anybody be in this position now
Edit: Jeez thanks for the downvotes. Seems like sharing personal stories related to a thread are frowned upon on internet forums
It’s a disgrace.
I know of a case where students were three people to a room in bunk beds and they were charged for having guests overnight. Or they had to have no noise after 9pm. They weren’t even permitted to leave their bike inside out of the rain. The student in question was shocked when i told him student digs often come with food included. He asked could he put a table in the room to study and was told absolutely not.
The landlord make sure to try to get a close to taxable limit for student digs. One of the students finally came to the realization it was wrong and when he was leaving the landlord begged him to stay. Doubtless because she was robbing him and had the cheek to keep the deposit.
Some students are getting financially abused by absolutely heartless landlords. The unis aren’t much better. They told a landlord I’m friends with “why don’t you put a load of bunk beds”. The landlord I know would in no way do that simply because it’s not human as well as being a health hazard if there was ever a fire.
We should probably restrict the number of student visas we give out, for their own benefit.
Exploiting people for profit much ?
Ah yes, all these prodigious English language learners.
Is there a maximum number of occupants in a property? Or is ‘stack them high’ condoned by local government?
Anyone know why these students would want to come here? Must be better options elsewhere.
Where I hear people taking about building communities in cities, especially just house for married people with children, these are the people they are excluding. But they will happily use them as ‘nannies’, hospitality workers and retail while also making them commute hours to their jobs. It is not just an Irish thing but it sickens me that we allow it to happen here.
I used to rent out a room to for six hundred a month in Dublin 9 but everyone I rented to brought drugs into the house and mistreated the place.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yyjuB_y0GM&ab_channel=ErikConover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yyjuB_y0GM&ab_channel=ErikConover)
A studio apartment in New York, where the grass is not always greener… for $650 per month.
We are getting shafted majorly.
And when everyone starts to fuck off to Aus again they will wonder why another generation is leaving.
I was renting a room in Leixlip and there were two lads who were robbed of their rent and deposit. One from Pakistan and another one from Spain who had close to 0 English. I told them to go to Gardai but one of them told him to go to RTB or whatever.
It’s absolutely insane
Fuck me, back about 12 years ago I was able to go half in on a big 2 bed apartment in the docks area near the Google HQ for like 800 a month. Private parking, utilities included, balcony that wrapped around 3 sides of the place.
Just checking now they’re looking 2300 for the tiny one bedrooms in the same building, anything that looks remotely similar is well over 3000 now.
I pay 650 pound for a house in belfast all to myself. My dog even has his own room, well it’s more of a walk in cupboard but I put his bed In there but he loves it.
I used to work as an ESL teacher.
They can go to Limerick or Waterford for much cheaper but they choose Dublin for the cosmopolitan lifestyle.
Fuck me and I’m renting out a full single room in my apartment for €700 p/m, what am I at?
I’m so curious as to how the people coming here, often from less well off countries, can afford to pay and live in Dublin while doing these language courses. It must be extraordinarily expensive and if they come from well off families or lucrative careers in their home countries then why are they tolerating living in these conditions?
Absolutely fucking atrocious
3 jobs to sleep in a fucking prison cell. Absolute state of this country.
Ah Dublin the City of Greed.
Why don’t they go somewhere else where they speak English that’s cheaper? Lots of options.
>I pay €700 for a bed in a room with four people’
Why is it that a cursory search on rent.ie shows on the first result a single room for 550,.?
Why would you pay 700 for 4 while in a room when you can have your own room alone for less?