For what it’s worth for anyone who takes a case to the RTB (or mentions doing so, or wins on) and then receives a notice of termination which you feel is retaliatory for your bringing a case, there is a prohibition on penalisation in section 14 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. This means that even if your landlord would ordinarily be entitled to do something (like take back or sell a property) they cannot do it if a tribunal of the RTB determine that it is being done to penalise you.
What a shitty arrangement – seems like a predatory couple operating a cash cow scheme to milk the council for funds whilst providing a sub par service. Why do we have so many scummy people taking advantage of those who cannot help themselves.
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Gouger scumbags
The council should have it’s own housing stock, of this type, for people like this man. It is scandalous that we have fallen behind and are being ripped off by these so called “Care givers”.
I briefly worked near the housing unit of a county council a few years ago (adjacent units). Anyone who thinks these places are stocked with doe-eyed socialists is kidding themselves. I have never heard so much open contempt for people behind closed doors.
The insistance that every person to see the maintenance team was a scrounger who needed to get off of their hole, would make a FG voter cringe. During the presidential election five members of the team were open about their support for Peter Casey and their hatred of travellers. Any opportunity to limit their responsibility to tenants was met with glee.
The guy in the article doesn’t stand a chance.
I know (for better or worse) councils tend to be hands off but when the council has an arrangement to lease a property from a business and then that business tries to evict a third party they’ve no relation to…
At that stage the council should be stepping in and saying, “Your lease is with us. You can’t interfere with this 3rd party”. I’m also somewhat surprised the RTB took the case re: the gas hill as, again from what’s in the article, the man’s landlord is the council, not the property owners.
But it’s hard to tell what the exact tenancy arrangement is from the report.
Tough to be evicted at that age. We should cherish the old more.
I had a dispute with my landlady last year and i found Threshold absolutely useless. I’m pretty sure i got evicted illegally.
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For what it’s worth for anyone who takes a case to the RTB (or mentions doing so, or wins on) and then receives a notice of termination which you feel is retaliatory for your bringing a case, there is a prohibition on penalisation in section 14 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. This means that even if your landlord would ordinarily be entitled to do something (like take back or sell a property) they cannot do it if a tribunal of the RTB determine that it is being done to penalise you.
What a shitty arrangement – seems like a predatory couple operating a cash cow scheme to milk the council for funds whilst providing a sub par service. Why do we have so many scummy people taking advantage of those who cannot help themselves.
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Gouger scumbags
The council should have it’s own housing stock, of this type, for people like this man. It is scandalous that we have fallen behind and are being ripped off by these so called “Care givers”.
I briefly worked near the housing unit of a county council a few years ago (adjacent units). Anyone who thinks these places are stocked with doe-eyed socialists is kidding themselves. I have never heard so much open contempt for people behind closed doors.
The insistance that every person to see the maintenance team was a scrounger who needed to get off of their hole, would make a FG voter cringe. During the presidential election five members of the team were open about their support for Peter Casey and their hatred of travellers. Any opportunity to limit their responsibility to tenants was met with glee.
The guy in the article doesn’t stand a chance.
I know (for better or worse) councils tend to be hands off but when the council has an arrangement to lease a property from a business and then that business tries to evict a third party they’ve no relation to…
At that stage the council should be stepping in and saying, “Your lease is with us. You can’t interfere with this 3rd party”. I’m also somewhat surprised the RTB took the case re: the gas hill as, again from what’s in the article, the man’s landlord is the council, not the property owners.
But it’s hard to tell what the exact tenancy arrangement is from the report.
Tough to be evicted at that age. We should cherish the old more.
I had a dispute with my landlady last year and i found Threshold absolutely useless. I’m pretty sure i got evicted illegally.
That lad has some city miles on him. Rough 61.
This isn’t the chap who makes the curries?