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Help please, new tenants have just moved in ..

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  • #52
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,433 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    It is not a difficult issue really tbh. I had a tenant once demanding a shed for the back garden. I told him if he wants one he can buy one but that one doesn't come included with the house.


  • #53
    dee_mc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,188 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    Was agreeing with you Pawwed Rig, sorry if the way I quoted the message was misleading but we're clearly in agreement anyway :)


  • #54
    riclad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    IF You are making a profit, paying tax on the rent ,
    you can claim, the cost of the shower ,plus installation
    ,in tax credits, over x amount of years .
    MY landlord would set the central,heating to come ,on every morning ,to heat up the water.
    645 am -8am, as that was the time his 2 tenants would shower ,
    Before going to work,
    This was before he got a power shower fitted .
    ITS possible to get a new timer unit to central heating boiler,
    with a boost 1 hour button, and a led display to set start times etc


  • #55
    MurdyWurdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    As someone mentioned earlier some microwaves don't have defrost settings but you can change the power level to 30% and that does the job, my parents do this on their microwave. I also agree that if they want a new microwave they can buy one. That's what I've done in the past. Fair enough they might not have noticed no defrost setting on the microwave before they moved in but there is more than likely a way around it that's very simple.

    As for the shower, they should have tested it before they moved in. We'd all love a power shower but you are not obliged to put one in just because they want one.They're taking the piss, imo


  • #56
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Paying his mortgage??

    He is being paid to provide a service, not to get a mortgage on the tenants behalf.


  • #57
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,433 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    I don't understand your point. Why would he get a mortgage on behalf of the tenant? The discussion is about whether he should feel obliged to upgrade items in the house.

    You asked what he was doing with the money the tenant gave him and I suggested (admittedly with no evidence) that the rent money is probably being used to pay a mortgage. I don't think that is an outlandish claim tbh.

    I am sure the OP could confirm or deny if it was any of our business.


  • #58
    PhilMcGee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 191 ✭✭PhilMcGee


    I have taken out power showers out of my properties.
    They are notorious for breaking and very expensive to get repaired.
    A simple electric shower that you can get for about €60 does the trick.
    If thats not good enough for the tenant then they dont have to take the place.
    I wouldnt buy them a microwave if the one supplied didnt have a certain button. Let them go buy it if they want it. I had someone ask to have all the 100 watt light bulbs replaced with energy saving bulbs once. I said no. In the past I have had all energy saving light bulbs in an apartment only to find that they all disappear with the tenant moving out and normal cheap light bulbs left in their place. Tenant said they all blew and they replaced them all.


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