A 5 minute read of the RTB dispute outcomes website should be enough to put anyone off being a landlord in Ireland. A search for “overholding” or “rent arrears” returns results as recently as today. Every day there are cases like these added that have been going on for 12-18 months with thousands owed in rent.
Like the first result on the page is a new one from today where a landlord has been trying to get people out since January 2022 and is owed €22k in rent since then.
>1. The Notice of Termination with a date of service of 31st of January 2022, served by the Appellant Landlords on the Respondent Tenants in respect of the tenancy of the dwelling at X, is valid.
>2. The Respondent Tenants and any other persons residing in the above dwelling shall vacate and give up possession of the above dwelling within 28 days of the date of issue of the Determination Order. The Respondent Terants shall pay the total sum of €22,734.20 to the Appellant Landlords, by way of 22 consecutive monthly instalments
sure thats only 2 months rent in Clonskeagh
Very selfish
My mate did something like this
Landlord wasn’t exactly above board nor registered. No leases. No signatures. You went to the viewing, you liked the place, he liked the look of you (educated, job, down to earth, fair), you paid first months rent and deposit in cash and were given the keys.
Each individual tenant paid cash to the landlord whenever he visited to collect rent, which was once every few months so there would be a backlog of months to be paid by each tenant.
Friend knew he’d be out within the year. Towards the latter half of his tenure, any visits would be dodged with a simple catch you next time until he one day he inevitably disappeared, cut contact, the whole lot. Housemates trying to follow up on behalf of the Landlord, cut them off too.
He never got comeuppance. I assume Landlord couldn’t do anything because highlighting the arrears would have opened up an even bigger can of worms with RTB, Revenue etc.
Cruel but somewhat genius too. Crooked Landlords would rather keep the anonymity and shady practices under wraps than follow up on a few thousand euro.
There are many landlords still taking cash in hand without a leg to stand on if these situations arise. It takes some balls and being somewhat of a cunt to follow through with what my mate pulled off. Probably why it isn’t very common. Some people have a conscience and overthink the repercussions or lack of.
If they haven’t paid now, they’re not going to start after this judgement.
About fucking time the Courts backed up landlords in the face of tenants who feel entitled to free accommodation
Further proof the whole housing market needs to be regulated for all parties, but hey, let’s use this as an excuse to bash renters instead of landlords for a change…
Two WHOLE months rent? Wild.
Tbh nothing’s gonna change for both scumbag landlords and scumbag tenants until the RTB has some teeth and can actually enforce it’s decisions.
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Which they will probably never pay.
Bad landlords! Looking for their rent…
A 5 minute read of the RTB dispute outcomes website should be enough to put anyone off being a landlord in Ireland. A search for “overholding” or “rent arrears” returns results as recently as today. Every day there are cases like these added that have been going on for 12-18 months with thousands owed in rent.
https://www.rtb.ie/dispute-case-outcomes
Like the first result on the page is a new one from today where a landlord has been trying to get people out since January 2022 and is owed €22k in rent since then.
>1. The Notice of Termination with a date of service of 31st of January 2022, served by the Appellant Landlords on the Respondent Tenants in respect of the tenancy of the dwelling at X, is valid.
>2. The Respondent Tenants and any other persons residing in the above dwelling shall vacate and give up possession of the above dwelling within 28 days of the date of issue of the Determination Order. The Respondent Terants shall pay the total sum of €22,734.20 to the Appellant Landlords, by way of 22 consecutive monthly instalments
sure thats only 2 months rent in Clonskeagh
Very selfish
My mate did something like this
Landlord wasn’t exactly above board nor registered. No leases. No signatures. You went to the viewing, you liked the place, he liked the look of you (educated, job, down to earth, fair), you paid first months rent and deposit in cash and were given the keys.
Each individual tenant paid cash to the landlord whenever he visited to collect rent, which was once every few months so there would be a backlog of months to be paid by each tenant.
Friend knew he’d be out within the year. Towards the latter half of his tenure, any visits would be dodged with a simple catch you next time until he one day he inevitably disappeared, cut contact, the whole lot. Housemates trying to follow up on behalf of the Landlord, cut them off too.
He never got comeuppance. I assume Landlord couldn’t do anything because highlighting the arrears would have opened up an even bigger can of worms with RTB, Revenue etc.
Cruel but somewhat genius too. Crooked Landlords would rather keep the anonymity and shady practices under wraps than follow up on a few thousand euro.
There are many landlords still taking cash in hand without a leg to stand on if these situations arise. It takes some balls and being somewhat of a cunt to follow through with what my mate pulled off. Probably why it isn’t very common. Some people have a conscience and overthink the repercussions or lack of.
If they haven’t paid now, they’re not going to start after this judgement.
About fucking time the Courts backed up landlords in the face of tenants who feel entitled to free accommodation
Further proof the whole housing market needs to be regulated for all parties, but hey, let’s use this as an excuse to bash renters instead of landlords for a change…
Two WHOLE months rent? Wild.
Tbh nothing’s gonna change for both scumbag landlords and scumbag tenants until the RTB has some teeth and can actually enforce it’s decisions.