€800 a month for this!

Chocolate Lions

biko wrote: »

If no-one rented it then price would fall I'd think. Is that not how free market works?

The free market doesn't work, which is why everything is so wrapped in regulation - the wheels will fall off if it isn't. Which is what happens every time deregulation occurs.

Having such a poor standard of accommodation is a disgrace, and if you're Irish and even if you're not you should be appalled that that could end up being someone's home, that that's a standard you don't mind seeing. And the money for it, the little baby Jesus wept.

NZ_2014

realies wrote: »

I like the last photo with the flower in the window.

tom_tarbucket wrote: »

that flower in the window in the last photo makes it all worth it

R P McMurphy wrote: »

Me as well ... it really ties the room together

shamrock55 wrote: »

Without the flower its probably worth 750 a month, but the flower deffo gives it value at 800:D

That last flower picture is a mirror image of the other picture featuring the flower, microwave and sink, mirror etc are on opposite sides; perhaps they mirrored it in photoshop, perhaps.

Chocolate Lions

NZ_2014 wrote: »

That last flower picture is a mirror image of the other picture featuring the flower, microwave and sink, mirror etc are on opposite sides; perhaps they mirrored it in photoshop, perhaps.

lol, if they have photoshop they could have done a bit more!

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov

No wonder poor oul Gerry turned to the sniff

For Forks Sake

catallus wrote: »

If that's the sort of reasoning that you use to absolve yourself of the blood on your hands, so be it.

Their anguish sustains me :cool:

UCDVet

I used to live two doors down from there. Price looks about right, all things considered. I'm sure they'll rent it in no time.

This is along the 145 and 46a. Anyone looking to rent a place like this isn't going to have a car. Dublin Bikes is right outside the door too. Great for working in city centre. Might be able to get it for 700-750 - it's hard to find anything in that price range that doesn't require sharing accommodation.

biko

You're right guys, it's much too expensive.
Someone has to do something before it's too late.

Let's meet outside tomorrow at 4pm for a protest. Bring your own signs.

DuchessduJour

It'll go for more than 800 too, if other places are anything to go by. It's very weird to see people engaging in bidding wars with each other over crappy apartments, but it's par for the course these days!

Stella Virgo

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

I like the way the basin seems to empty into the toilet (12th picture down).

Could be a good way of saving water

you sure its not the other way around?

nokia69

landlords run the country thats why they can get away with things like this

keep voting for fianna gaelbour you suckers

Fred Swanson

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Mrs Garth Brooks

UCDVet wrote: »

I used to live two doors down from there. Price looks about right, all things considered. I'm sure they'll rent it in no time.

This is along the 145 and 46a. Anyone looking to rent a place like this isn't going to have a car. Dublin Bikes is right outside the door too. Great for working in city centre. Might be able to get it for 700-750 - it's hard to find anything in that price range that doesn't require sharing accommodation.

700-750?

For that piece piece of crap. I'd consider €300 for it.

lanos

What's the floor area
20 m2 ?

Its aimed at poor people
Poor people always get shafted

People should live in a decent sized dwelling and their budget should dictate location.
Otherwise developers would have people living in shoebox's
But doesn't that happen already.
As long as fools (poor people) are prepared so settle for less, there will be predators willing to exploit them.
At the risk of sounding like a boastful asshole, I share 200 m2 with my wife and 2 young kids. I despise shoebox landlords but have zero respect for their willing victims.

Sh1tbag OToole

lanos wrote: »

What's the floor area
20 m2 ?

Its aimed at poor people
Poor people always get shafted

People should live in a decent sized dwelling and their budget should dictate location.
Otherwise developers would have people living in shoebox's
But doesn't that happen already.
As long as fools (poor people) are prepared so settle for less, there will be predators willing to exploit them.
At the risk of sounding like a boastful asshole, I share 200 m2 with my wife and 2 young kids. I despise shoebox landlords but have zero respect for their willing victims.

For some people a shoebox is better than having to get a shared room in a bigger house. I believe there is a clamour for legislation to stop people renting these people out but that will only drive prices up more. If you only need a place to sleep this is grand particularly if it's only for short term. I'd have no bother living in a place like that for a while if it wasn't cold or mouldy, wouldn't pay 800 quid for it though

NZ_2014

lanos wrote: »

What's the floor area
20 m2 ?

Its aimed at poor people
Poor people always get shafted

People should live in a decent sized dwelling and their budget should dictate location.
Otherwise developers would have people living in shoebox's
But doesn't that happen already.
As long as fools (poor people) are prepared so settle for less, there will be predators willing to exploit them.
At the risk of sounding like a boastful asshole, I share 200 m2 with my wife and 2 young kids. I despise shoebox landlords but have zero respect for their willing victims.

Your a boastful asshole

All joking aside, why don't u have a dog with all that space?

Tarzana2

RedemptionZ wrote: »

It's on Leeson St, there's your answer there. Doesn't look that bad either, was expecting a lot worse.

It's a hole. And a dangerous one at that.

Luke92

UCDVet wrote: »

I used to live two doors down from there. Price looks about right, all things considered. I'm sure they'll rent it in no time.

This is along the 145 and 46a. Anyone looking to rent a place like this isn't going to have a car. Dublin Bikes is right outside the door too. Great for working in city centre. Might be able to get it for 700-750 - it's hard to find anything in that price range that doesn't require sharing accommodation.

There's a much bigger bedsit going for 750 just off aungier street. Which has everything you mentioned.

lanos

NZ_2014 wrote: »

Your a boastful asshole

All joking aside, why don't u have a dog with all that space?

I have 3 cats
does that count ?
cat3.jpg

Summer wind

Oh my god it's got so much character when can I move in?

Tarzana2

Valetta wrote: »

Its a studio apt. Perfectly legal.

It fails on a number of points. Did you not read the post listing them? If so, reading comprehension failure. No honour in English for you!

Tarzana2

RedemptionZ wrote: »

It's in a posh part of Dublin city, very near the centre. 800 seems standard even for that. I'd like to think you could get more bang for your buck in Dublin, but reality is you can't.

You can. People like you think you can't and end up paying that, but you can. Even in D4.

Gongoozler

RedemptionZ wrote: »

It's in a posh part of Dublin city, very near the centre. 800 seems standard even for that. I'd like to think you could get more bang for your buck in Dublin, but reality is you can't.

Sorry, Leeson St is posh now? Lulz

SameDiff

biko wrote: »

If no-one rented it then price would fall I'd think. Is that not how free market works?

It's not a free market, the rents are fixed by the rent allowance and there are thousands of
properties withheld by NAMA.

biko wrote:

I'd think

Yes, try doing that.

The Diabolical Monocle

All those idiots who bought. (insert decking joke).

K.Flyer

Listed as fuly furnished 1 bed 1 bath Studio, f.f.s. its a bathroom with a fold-down bed, a fridge and a microwave in it.
At 800 a month, Leeson St or not, more the fool that pays for it.

K.Flyer

SameDiff wrote: »

It's not a free market, the rents are fixed by the rent allowance and there are thousands of
properties withheld by NAMA.
.

Not wanting to get off topic, but most of the Nama held properties are already being rented out.

Akrasia

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

It looks clean and tidy. Thats a lot more than I can say about about 80% of the places I looked at. Most places have mould. Dublin landlords just can't get enough of fricking mould.

How long do you think it will stay mould free when you have the shower in your bedroom which is also your kitchen and living room?

Especially when the only heating appears to be a small electric oil filled radiator

Mister Vain

This is why I'm still living at home. Even if I could afford that I wouldn't go near it.

fermanagh_man

Reality is this room will be rented out within 48hrs

handlemaster

Mister Vain wrote: »

This is why I'm still living at home. Even if I could afford that I wouldn't go near it.

You havent gotten the message yet !

Ghost Train

NZ_2014 wrote: »

That last flower picture is a mirror image of the other picture featuring the flower, microwave and sink, mirror etc are on opposite sides; perhaps they mirrored it in photoshop, perhaps.

They took the photo through the mirror on the wall to give the place a wider feel :pac:

Hermy

biko wrote: »

If you don't like it, don't rent it.

That's the spirit Biko. And sure so what if standards get so low we have to reach up to touch the bottom.

Tordelback

Having worked in a few of those late Georgian/early Victorian Leeson St buildings for enough years to know their various possible layouts backwards, I have to conclude that this -cough- apartment is in the rear basement (or just possibly the front steps). So no sunlight is getting near that 'window' for 8 months of the year. On the other hand, the Leaning Tower of Powercity aside, it mightn't be too awful if you were just staying there during the week, and you were working long hours in town. I've stayed in worse, certainly - but never for €800.

Gongoozler

fermanagh_man wrote: »

Reality is this room will be rented out within 48hrs

It's been up for a week so far, saw it last weekend when I was looking.

FairytaleGirl

Just gonna leave this here for comparison...

http://www.propertypal.com/property-to-rent/belfast-city-centre/price-800-800


You Dubliners are crazy standing for this ****.

Teyla Emmagan

Do rental properties not have to be certified before they are put on the market? Because if that's not something we currently have we should be put in place. I may be quite naive but I think it's frickin shocking places like that are being rented out. And that place is clean! I have seen photos of far worse. We should have minimum standards for habitable accommodation, that are enforced. People shouldn't be ridden by disreputable landlords like this. That place is a death trap.

For Forks Sake

FairytaleGirl wrote: »

Just gonna leave this here for comparison...

http://www.propertypal.com/property-to-rent/belfast-city-centre/price-800-800


You Dubliners are crazy standing for this ****.

£800 is over €1000, so lets compare like with like please....

shalalala

We seriously need to get rent control. It is pricing a lot of people out of Dublin and or back home. 800 for that is just plain mental

boobar

Luke92 wrote: »

http://touch.daft.ie/imagebrowser.daft?type=rental&id=1497539

You would want to be mental! I'd rather pay for a hostel!

Edit: yeah sorry mods I couldn't find the present thread in accommodation and property. So thought it would be more suited here.

Welcome to my tomb!

That is unreal, I pay less for a 3 bed house, granted it's not in Dublin.

But if all you want is location, location, location then you're welcome to this compact and bijoux studio!

FairytaleGirl

For Forks Sake wrote: »

£800 is over €1000, so lets compare like with like please....

http://www.propertypal.com/property-to-rent/belfast-city-centre/price-600-700

Still 100times more acceptable.

suicide_circus

FairytaleGirl wrote: »

Just gonna leave this here for comparison...

http://www.propertypal.com/property-to-rent/belfast-city-centre/price-800-800


You Dubliners are crazy standing for this ****.

What do you suggest we do about it? Sleep rough? Massacre the slumlords til the streets run red with their blood?

Davarus Walrus

FairytaleGirl wrote: »

Just gonna leave this here for comparison...

http://www.propertypal.com/property-to-rent/belfast-city-centre/price-800-800


You Dubliners are crazy standing for this ****.

The real drawback of the Belfast apartment is that it's in Belfast.

Alun

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

The real drawback of the Belfast apartment is that it's in Belfast.

Exactly, as they say, "Location, Location, Location".

Reggie.

:eek: that's unbelievable

Stheno

Can that bedsit be reported as unsafe?

joseph brand

€200 per week for a toilet with some electrical junk and dandelions?? Ah, the 'free market'. It's not what it's worth, it's what you can squeeze out of some unfortunate sucker.

I'm wondering now if I could purchase some old van, park it in the garden, knock the wheels off it, and rent it out as a bedsit or flat. Considering the low standards in accommodation.

At least this sordid little grief hole in roomier than a Portaloo. So it has that going for it. Surprised Daft didn't mention it in their ad.

biko

biko wrote: »

You're right guys, it's much too expensive.
Someone has to do something before it's too late.

Let's meet outside tomorrow at 4pm for a protest. Bring your own signs.

I'm here now but I don't see anyone else yet.

17larsson

The fifth picture of the microwave really swung it for me

Lalealea

I had an ex who lived in much worse for a while. I have a friend who lived in similar.

People don't know what some have to deal with.

In my Students years most friends who didn't live at home had to cope with similar or worse. And there are worse out there. The south circular road and Rathmines are notorious. Mouldy, freezing and unsafe.

anncoates

If everybody wasn't obsessed with living in the same few postcodes in Dublin, these vampire landlords wouldn't have a captive market.