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Tenant causes huge damage in just 3 weeks
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Fast food vs the healthy option maybe.
When I was in germany yourented a white painted empty apartment. Thats the way you returned it. Empty and freshly painted. Don't know if that common or not. It would save of hassle.
It would certainly be a good idea to implement this as common custom here. As others have mentioned, if you own your own furniture etc you are more likely to take care of it and less likely to have wild parties where god knows what damage could be done, thus leaving the LL unexposed to having to replace broken and damaged furniture and/or having damage done to walls and carpets, and you have the added bonus as a tenant of having furniture that you actually like and can use comfortably as opposed to a heap of old dirty worn junk that is all too often the standard in rental properties in Ireland.
The LL would have less of a headache if all they had to ensure was that the actual property was looked after and left clean and usable, rather than worrying about myriad furniture/white goods/sundries. Also would be handy to have the walls freshly painted as standard, that way if the tenant wants some mental colour scheme they're free to do so as long as they paint it back plain white/magnolia upon vacating.
We have all our own furniture and white goods (barring a cooker) and it's hard enough to find unfurnished houses, so we go for semi-furnished, or ask the LL if they will remove some stuff/can store the stuff in a garage etc. We also tend to go for longer tenancies as it's such a hassle to move everything once every 12 months
As for the original poster's problem - TBH it'll be a headache to pursue this through courts etc. Use the deposit to cover as much as you can - you need 2 new beds, 2 new diningroom chairs, a new carpet, and the shower fixed up. The dog crap can be cleaned (although it is a horrible job).
You could go down the route of advertising it as furnished or unfurnished, and you might get lucky and get someone who wants it unfurnished, then you only have to replace the carpet, fix the shower and clear the dogcrap.0 -
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Fast food vs the healthy option maybe.
When I was in germany yourented a white painted empty apartment. Thats the way you returned it. Empty and freshly painted. Don't know if that common or not. It would save of hassle.
i was in germany too a few years back and the concept of renting anything fully furnished was unheard off
for the rent you get walls and a floor and provide the rest yourself if you need/want it
unfortunately fast food outsells healthy food in most countries these days and the sales fiqures back it up
but its not a fair comparison because junk food is cheap,fast,easily accesable to kids and and a healthy meal costs more/takes longer/isnt as widely available0 -
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It would certainly be a good idea to implement this as common custom here. As others have mentioned, if you own your own furniture etc you are more likely to take care of it and less likely to have wild parties where god knows what damage could be done, thus leaving the LL unexposed to having to replace broken and damaged furniture and/or having damage done to walls and carpets, and you have the added bonus as a tenant of having furniture that you actually like and can use comfortably as opposed to a heap of old dirty worn junk that is all too often the standard in rental properties in Ireland.
The LL would have less of a headache if all they had to ensure was that the actual property was looked after and left clean and usable, rather than worrying about myriad furniture/white goods/sundries. Also would be handy to have the walls freshly painted as standard, that way if the tenant wants some mental colour scheme they're free to do so as long as they paint it back plain white/magnolia upon vacating.
We have all our own furniture and white goods (barring a cooker) and it's hard enough to find unfurnished houses, so we go for semi-furnished, or ask the LL if they will remove some stuff/can store the stuff in a garage etc. We also tend to go for longer tenancies as it's such a hassle to move everything once every 12 months
As for the original poster's problem - TBH it'll be a headache to pursue this through courts etc. Use the deposit to cover as much as you can - you need 2 new beds, 2 new diningroom chairs, a new carpet, and the shower fixed up. The dog crap can be cleaned (although it is a horrible job).
You could go down the route of advertising it as furnished or unfurnished, and you might get lucky and get someone who wants it unfurnished, then you only have to replace the carpet, fix the shower and clear the dogcrap.
Great idea ... worked this way in Belgium too. Also you would mostly attract tenants saving for a house and would take much better care of an apartment full of their own stuff. I reckon if you offered a discounted rent unfurnished you would have a lot of success with this approach.
People from the continent would already be familiar with it.0 -
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Well those are the facts as happened, its not an opinion.
still you cant say if anyone rents to an irish man the mattress will be stained beyond use (unless hes gay ) LOL and the hoovering never will be done
if i changed that statment the other way around id either be labelled racist against polish people or homophobic against gay people0 -
still you cant say if anyone rents to an irish man the mattress will be stained beyond use (unless hes gay ) LOL and the hoovering never will be done
if i changed that statment the other way around id either be labelled racist against polish people or homophobic against gay people
Just do the homework is all I am saying. Single men in general from my experience are the worst. Or worse still a house full of 2 or 3 men who rent the rooms.
Families tend to have more pride in their houses.
At the end of the day the poster was left with a wrecked house.0 -
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