Funny Houses/Flats to rent

mojesius

Nomis21 wrote: »

Like to own your own island?


http://www.daft.ie/cork/sites-for-sale/skibbereen/goose-island-roaring-water-bay-skibbereen-cork-1264841/

What would you do with it?

Make yourself King/Queen? Start Ireland's first nudist colony?

Id make it a super duper tax haven, Ireland's version of the Cayman islands.

Island is located in 'Roaring water bay'. Sounds pleasant. I'd say it's a nice place in the depths of winter, exactly like that photo, but with furious crashing waves, howling winds, and non-stop rain.

tara73

and there's not even a building on it. I doubt you get planning permission to build one.

redcup342

Grayson wrote: »

In amsterdam if you're not earning that much you get automatic rent supplement as far as I'm aware. I think you have to be paying less than 700 a month. It means that there's a lot of housing available for around that much.

But yeah, our public transport system (and roads too) are a nightmare. It should be easier to live farther away and travel to work. Everytime I'm in the Netherlands I'm amazed at how easy the transport system is.

Nah, you don't get a rental supplement, you can however apply for Social Housing if you earn under a certain amount but you'd be on the waiting list potentially for years unless you are willing to live way outside amsterdam.

Also with the refugee crisis now people are waiting even longer for social housing.

Outside of that you are just renting in the private market with no supplement.

You do get a supplement for your Health Insurance though.

Jikashi

happypants wrote: »

https://touch.daft.ie/meath/houses-for-sale/dunboyne/7-the-way-dunboyne-castle-dunboyne-meath-1324165/

Utility room or guest bathroom??? I dunno. Suppose you could use the jax while you wait on your tea and toast...

http://bit.ly/2hNubHW

happypants

happypants wrote: »

https://touch.daft.ie/meath/houses-for-sale/dunboyne/7-the-way-dunboyne-castle-dunboyne-meath-1324165/

Utility room or guest bathroom??? I dunno. Suppose you could use the jax while you wait on your tea and toast...

The rest of the house is very nice. I assume the microwave and toaster were just moved to the utility as a temporary measure.

Kintarō Hattori

http://www.daft.ie/kildare/houses-for-sale/kilcock/167-chambers-park-kilcock-kildare-1345236/

Open your front door and you're straight into your hallway/kitchen. Is this a little unusual for a newly built house? Can't say I'd be a fan of that.

pilly

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

http://www.daft.ie/kildare/houses-for-sale/kilcock/167-chambers-park-kilcock-kildare-1345236/

Open your front door and you're straight into your hallway/kitchen. Is this a little unusual for a newly built house? Can't say I'd be a fan of that.

Straight into your hallway? Aren't doors always open into a hallway? I can't see what you mean?

Oh I see it now! Yeah, it's kind of open plan with the stairs in the kitchen as well.

Would be odd alright but depends on how well insulated the house is and how warm it is, wouldn't it?

Corkblowin

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

http://www.daft.ie/kildare/houses-for-sale/kilcock/167-chambers-park-kilcock-kildare-1345236/

Open your front door and you're straight into your hallway/kitchen. Is this a little unusual for a newly built house? Can't say I'd be a fan of that.

Not only unusual, looks like its in breach of fire safety regulations.

1.5.2 An open-plan arrangement, where the stairway rises
directly from the ground storey accommodation is
less preferable than the arrangement at (ii) above
and is only acceptable where:
- the stairway discharges to within 4.5 m of a door
at the ground storey leading directly to the open
air;
- the stairway does not discharge into a kitchen
and either:
• any ground storey kitchen is enclosed in
storey height construction which need not
be fire resisting or;
• where the stairway passes within 3 m of the
kitchen, the stairway should be enclosed in
storey-height construction

Kintarō Hattori

pilly wrote: »

Straight into your hallway? Aren't doors always open into a hallway? I can't see what you mean?

What I'm saying is that there's no separation between the hallway and kitchen. Look at pictures 5 and 8.

pilly

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

What I'm saying is that there's no separation between the hallway and kitchen. Look at pictures 5 and 8.

Yeah sorry, I got it afterwards, it's weird alright. I've seen stairs in a living room but never in a kitchen. Maybe previous owners changed it around?

Thoie

Fecking "townhouses". Another cheap build for the builders, packing in as much crap as they can on as little land as possible. They rarely have much going for them.

Friends rented something with a similar ground floor layout 20 years ago, but in their case the kitchen was walled off from the hallway. It made for a ridiculously poky kitchen, and a poky hallway that you nearly had to turn sideways to get through. They probably thought that removing the wall would give an "airier" feel, which it probably does. But the smell of cooking must permeate the entire upstairs every time. And if you're upstairs and the kitchen goes on fire you're f***ed.

They also obviously expect everyone to eat off their laps on the sofa - can't see where you'd fit a table and chairs in there.

Glico Man

You can come home from work everyday and instead of watching tv you can watch the contents of your fridge going off.

https://www.propertypal.com/unit-4-66-university-street-botanic-belfast/318565/slideshow

snubbleste

Glico Man wrote: »

You can come home from work everyday and instead of watching tv you can watch the contents of your fridge going off.
https://www.propertypal.com/unit-4-66-university-street-botanic-belfast/318565/slideshow

That looks ok to me.

xzanti

snubbleste wrote: »

That looks ok to me.

For the price I guess it's 'ok', still pretty depressing though imo

xzanti

xzanti wrote: »

For the price I guess it's 'ok', still pretty depressing though imo

It's a mansion in comparison to some of the poky hellholes that have been named and shamed on these pages.

foggy_lad

snubbleste wrote: »

That looks ok to me.

The pictures taken with the secret cameras in the rooms would put me off:eek::D

snubbleste

foggy_lad wrote: »

The pictures taken with the secret cameras in the rooms would put me off:eek::D

I'm pretty certain they were taken with a selfie stick.

pilly

snubbleste wrote: »

That looks ok to me.

Oh god stop, it's rotten.

SEPT 23 1989

grand for students

Maximus Alexander

Glico Man wrote: »

You can come home from work everyday and instead of watching tv you can watch the contents of your fridge going off.

https://www.propertypal.com/unit-4-66-university-street-botanic-belfast/318565/slideshow

It's grand as far as I'm concerned since they have been considerate enough to provide crying chairs in both bedrooms.

Detached Retina

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

http://www.daft.ie/kildare/houses-for-sale/kilcock/167-chambers-park-kilcock-kildare-1345236/

Open your front door and you're straight into your hallway/kitchen. Is this a little unusual for a newly built house? Can't say I'd be a fan of that.

That's quite weird to me. I've never seen that before. The kitchen was always the heart of my family home, my grans etc. that looks like a run through, more so than even a small galley kitchen. Nicely decorated, but weird flow Also they're all overdoing it with the panorama

evolving_doors

Detached Retina wrote: »

That's quite weird to me. I've never seen that before. The kitchen was always the heart of my family home, my grans etc. that looks like a run through, more so than even a small galley kitchen. Nicely decorated, but weird flow Also they're all overdoing it with the panorama

Looks like it's compensating for a narrowerror space than usual. If the kitchen were in the back then half the sitting room would be taken up by the stairs. They'd want a pretty good extractor fan to avoid the cooking smells lingering upstairs too.
I'd definitely put it in the funny category..... funny peculiar.
I could imagine the conversation in the architects office... 'hey we've a row of 12 houses... if we took a foot off each we could make a new house'.

Gebgbegb

Gebgbegb wrote: »

I could imagine the conversation in the architects office... 'hey we've a row of 12 houses... if we took a foot off each we could make a new house'.

I think the conversation would have been more like 'hey we've a row of 12 houses, the developer has demanded that we take a foot off each and squeeze in one more :mad:'

skooterblue2

Money sink

Read the small print. Its a 24 year lease with 10k service charge and probably have to pay tax on it. No no a sound investment there.

pilly

skooterblue2 wrote:

Read the small print. Its a 24 year lease with 10k service charge and probably have to pay tax on it. No no a sound investment there.

It's not even a bungalow but a mobile home! For 150k! Nuts.

Nomis21

pilly wrote: »

It's not even a bungalow but a mobile home! For 150k! Nuts.

19 years left on the lease @ about 10k a year and at the end of it all, you may have to leave with nothing!

Winterlong

€9450 service charge per year...+vat.

That's a mad amount. Is that normal in those caravan/mobile home parks?

vandriver

Winterlong wrote: »

€9450 service charge per year...+vat.

That's a mad amount. Is that normal in those caravan/mobile home parks?

In the super exclusive,keep out the riff-raff type places Yes.

FizzleSticks

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James 007

FizzleSticks wrote: »

Jesus Christ.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ufkfvm6N5NYJ:www.daft.ie/dublin/apartment-share/dun-laoghaire/clarinda-park-west-dun-laoghaire-dublin-919182/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ie

You should get on well with the other tenants Luke, Han Solo and R2D2. I think those pods should of been delivered to Apollo House instead, would suit the homeless rather than sleeping on mattresses on the floor.