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Social Welfare Tenant Disaster

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  • #92
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    If its resourced anything like as badly as the PRTB it will equally pointless for a LL.


  • #93
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,285 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    BostonB wrote: »
    If its resourced anything like as badly as the PRTB it will equally pointless for a LL.

    Or a tenant :(

    Lets hope. Knowing our luck the PRTB could well end up with it as one of their functions........:confused:


  • #94
    20/20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭20/20


    Carriexx how did you get on with the BAD tennant?? after reading seven pages of good and bad advice iam now dying to know.


  • #95
    Procrastastudy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    riclad wrote: »
    IF a landlord takes a ra tenant on, he should expect there maybe a delay in getting the first payment especially a single mother.
    maybe call her once or twice a week.The welfare officer only deals with rent enquirys maybe 3 days a week ,depending on the area you live in.
    ONCE the first cheque arrives , ie the ra claim is approved,it should arrive promptly thereafter
    unless theres a glitch in the banking computer system, ie sometimes cheques may arrive 1 week late.
    i know landlord s in certain areas , there main clients are ra tenants,
    you can ask her get a note from welfare officer, stating the payment is being processed ,this ra claim has been accepted for client x at adress x.

    Go easy - causing alarm when chasing payment is a criminal offence. I realise that's not what you're suggesting but just in case people take it too far. Once a week would be plenty.


  • #96
    20/20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭20/20


    Carriexx are you going to let us know what happened in the end?.


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  • #97
    Carriexx
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭Carriexx


    Hi, sorry for delay. Story is pretty long so will try to condense.
    Last Fri week, she never turned up to meeting so hot really mad and gave ultimatum. On Monday she said she had new rent pack from social welfare and most of deposit.

    She never met me on Tuesday, Wed, Thursday, loads of excuses.and stood up someone I arranged to meet her on Friday. So told her to get out over weekend, and that I was going to guards. She tried to meet me then with deposit and forms, I refused. She said she would be out by sun but wanted her half deposit back or else. So I went to guards, and he was gonna call to her Sunday. I was meeting her Sunday evening to get keys back, but she left before I got their and left keys behind.

    Electricity had been turned off on Fri/sat I think as she had never put bill in her name. So that's gonna cost nearly €300 to sort. But I'm relieved its over, she had no intention of paying or staying..

    Thanks


  • #98
    Yawns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭Yawns


    Thank your lucky stars she actually left and didn't destroy the place. Hopefully it's a lesson learned about never trusting a tenant and only ever hand keys & sign lease on a full deposit and months rent in advance. Surprised the guard even helped as far as he did because it's a civil matter and one they usually will not get involved in.


  • #99
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    E300 to get her out? Could've been a lot worse. You had a lucky escape, I think!! Thank God she's gone...

    Now get those locks changed!!


  • #100
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,302 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    ABajaninCork wrote: »
    E300 to get her out? Could've been a lot worse. You had a lucky escape, I think!! Thank God she's gone...

    Now get those locks changed!!
    ONLY €300? You, sir, got off lightly! Take all the bills out of her deposit, keep the receipts, and change those locks so she doesn't move back in for the fun of it.

    Next time, full deposit & first months rent before they get the keys.


  • #101
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    300? your Xmas has come early. Last time a firend of mind has a tenant like that it cost about 4K to get rid of them in lost rent and repairs and extra cleaning. They even took all the light bulbs and all the handles off all doors, drawers, and kitchen units. Another one rewired parts of the house which needed to be fixed.


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  • #102
    FutureGuy
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,237 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    Got away very lightly OP and you will have learned a ton from the experience.


  • #103
    FutureGuy
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,237 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    Carriexx wrote: »
    Hi, sorry for delay. Story is pretty long so will try to condense.
    Last Fri week, she never turned up to meeting so hot really mad and gave ultimatum. On Monday she said she had new rent pack from social welfare and most of deposit.

    She never met me on Tuesday, Wed, Thursday, loads of excuses.and stood up someone I arranged to meet her on Friday. So told her to get out over weekend, and that I was going to guards. She tried to meet me then with deposit and forms, I refused. She said she would be out by sun but wanted her half deposit back or else. So I went to guards, and he was gonna call to her Sunday. I was meeting her Sunday evening to get keys back, but she left before I got their and left keys behind.

    Electricity had been turned off on Fri/sat I think as she had never put bill in her name. So that's gonna cost nearly €300 to sort. But I'm relieved its over, she had no intention of paying or staying..

    Thanks

    I know nothing about these things but could you recoup any of that 300 from the RA people, given that she completely screwed you over?


  • #104
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Carriexx wrote: »
    Hi, sorry for delay. Story is pretty long so will try to condense.
    Last Fri week, she never turned up to meeting so hot really mad and gave ultimatum. On Monday she said she had new rent pack from social welfare and most of deposit.

    She never met me on Tuesday, Wed, Thursday, loads of excuses.and stood up someone I arranged to meet her on Friday. So told her to get out over weekend, and that I was going to guards. She tried to meet me then with deposit and forms, I refused. She said she would be out by sun but wanted her half deposit back or else. So I went to guards, and he was gonna call to her Sunday. I was meeting her Sunday evening to get keys back, but she left before I got their and left keys behind.

    Electricity had been turned off on Fri/sat I think as she had never put bill in her name. So that's gonna cost nearly €300 to sort. But I'm relieved its over, she had no intention of paying or staying..

    Thanks
    And now she goes and does the same thing to some other landlord.

    Why is there no register of these tenants??


  • #105
    Carriexx
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭Carriexx


    Defo lesson learned - a lesson I wil never forget!! Put ad back up and had someone abusing me for not accepting rent allowance!!!


  • #106
    Yawns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭Yawns


    FutureGuy wrote: »
    I know nothing about these things but could you recoup any of that 300 from the RA people, given that she completely screwed you over?

    Not a thing. She wasn't getting paid by the social anyway if the OP didn't fill any forms in. Even if she was getting paid, any damage done or anything at all is nothing to do with them. The contract is with tenant and the landlord.


  • #107
    Carriexx
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭Carriexx


    Yawns wrote: »
    Not a thing. She wasn't getting paid by the social anyway if the OP didn't fill any forms in. Even if she was getting paid, any damage done or anything at all is nothing to do with them. The contract is with tenant and the landlord.

    I did fill forms in - the day she moved in. But she never handed them in as she was getting rent allowance for another apartment in Dublin.


  • #108
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    Carriexx wrote: »
    I did fill forms in - the day she moved in. But she never handed them in as she was getting rent allowance for another apartment in Dublin.

    If you still have the forms, then I wouldn't hesitate in grassing her up to Welfare.:mad: People like this chancer give the rest of us RA tenants who DO play by the rules a bad name and make it TWICE as difficult to find a landlord willing to take it.

    Cheeky ******* biatch!


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