Beyond a joke

Arathorn

Saw this mentioned on a blog, http://www.daft.ie/searchrental.daft?id=464365&search=1 its disgraceful. Isnt there any minimun standards for renting out flats? and I though my place was small :rolleyes:

BostonB

:eek: Wouldn't pass the swing a cat test.

Mike...

Somebody rented it......

Arathorn

Ya the rental market is very competitive for people who want to live alone, I seen some tiny horrible places when I was looking and people were nearly fighting each other for them. Mostly foreign nationals were viewing, I think a lot of them like to live near the city centre. Its still a disgrace to rent that for €600 a month even if there are people willing to pay

jdivision

But it includes heating:rolleyes: Absolutely ridiculous price.

Arathorn

You could heat the place with a nightlite

The_Conductor

On the bright side, it does appear to be impeccably clean. Mind you- that probably wouldn't take too long......
Utterly ridiculous price though......

Supercell

I really feel sorry for the obviously desperate person who rented it

I was renting a studio on in Rathgar very close to there for 530€ p/m until recently and was about four times the size of that and that depressed the hell out of me before i moved into the comparitive heaven of where I am now.

That dump shouldnt command any more than 300€ p/m and imho even thats pushing it.

Poor renter, hope you get somewhere better soon!!

Moonbeam

That is ridiculous,
I feel sorry for a person that felt that was their only option for accomodation in Dublin.

BigTommyBomb

I don't think the thing is actually let as its just been updated a few days ago.

The person who is letting this is a scumbag pure and simple.

coffee_cake

Cosy studio apartment to let in large Georgian Style house.

Lol, cosy. That's one way of putting it

patrickolee

Location is handy though... looks like someone liked it, 'This property is let agreed'!

Cianos

wow...what a horrible little place...is there enough room to take your jacket off?!

I'd almost expect to be paid to live there!

bill_ashmount

I've seen it all now, that's unbelievable.

Stark

Sickening. It's not even that close to the city centre.

€600 per month. Desperation tax or moron tax?

Though it does say a lot about the rental market in Dublin.

The_Conductor

I reckon things will ease up in the short to medium term. From anecdotal evidence it appears that at least some of the properties on the market at present are expected to re-enter the rental market while awaiting buyers.

S.

chump

jaysus, i almost wet myself when i saw that!

seahorse

I've seen worse, believe it or not. I knew one bloke who lived in a little kip so small he had to kick the bed out of the way every time he walked in or out the door, and it was scruffy too; at least that place was clean.

I honestly believe these scumbag bastard landlords should be made to live in the kips they rent out. Can you imagine any more demoralising experience than having to go back to that every day??? And what if you met someone you were mad about? You’d be mortified bringing them ‘home’…

patrickolee

smccarrick wrote:

I reckon things will ease up in the short to medium term. From anecdotal evidence it appears that at least some of the properties on the market at present are expected to re-enter the rental market while awaiting buyers.

S.

Vinyl

BrandonBlock

I've seen bigger jail cells.

A Dub in Glasgo

Why is the landlord a scumbag? Surely we live in a society that dictates that the market will decide these things? The landlord just let the market decide if he has priced it too expensive. If he has a let, the market has decided.

Calina

However, we also live in a market which requires a certain amount of regulation to ensure that it is some way fair.

I don't see any dimensions printed for that uhem place, I refuse to call it a property. I certainly wouldn't pay 600E for it and I doubt if it should be permitted for it to be rented at all given the proximity of the bed to the cooking area.

It's all fine to say "the market" has spoken when it means someone has "made" nice money. Currently, the rental market in Dublin is in a mess, mainly because the sales market is changing. As sales supply went up, rental supply fell. This is starting to reverse slightly now as sales are still not happening. However, all of that is irrelevant. That room/studio doesn't look like it's even ten square metres in size. In my opinion - in the same way as the one bed shoe boxes of 35sq or less should not be permitted to be built - rental accommodation should have a standard minimum size. Personally I'd go for 25 sqm on that front for a studio, but that's just my view.

Justifying something like this with "the market has spoken" is naive. The market doesn't decide everything - regulation has a lot to do with it as well. Unfortunately, the letting market in Ireland is under-regulated and there is little will to do anything about it.

A Dub in Glasgo

Your last sentence totally proves my point. It is not naive to state the facts.

I am not justifying the let merely suggesting that the government, in the interests of the free market, has allowed this type of scenerio.

lostexpectation

are there no laws against this, as part of housing standards, I did read that some people in the council were drawing up recommendations for minimun apartment sizes I looked around I found something about 114.m2 (double) meters or 7.1m2 (single) for bedrooms and 2.1m2 unobstructed space for single bedrooms, but that doens't account for when you lving space and bedroom space and kitchen or all the same (corridor). its very hard to find anything on bedsits or studios whatever term you might call em.

that guy who rented out the room with with window, i dunno if still around he can say himself but I bet he never managed to compain to the council or anyone about it.

arkcon seem to to specialise in these sort of 600e places, and often have something like 'Mo mowi polski' written in their description, which I presume means may suit Polish. Dire.

Polish coming over here nicking our ****holes.