Eviction notice as a Christmas present!

athtrasna

Mod note

This is not a Threshold thread. Can we get back on topic please

_Kaiser_

borderlinemeath wrote: »

If you're renting and you can't afford to live in Dublin, then you may have to move out of Dublin. Some people have this notion that they have an entitlement to live in the capital city because it's where they always lived, or because it's where they work but now they are being priced out of the market. Nobody has a right or an entitlement to live where they cannot afford. What do you think people do in other capital cities the world over? They move to a commutable town.

.. and then people complain that the public transport is packed or the motorways are jammed.

Pushing people further and further out isn't a solution either. There's plenty of land available for development within the Dublin boundaries and we should be using every inch of that for new sustainable housing, as well as building high-rise euro-sized apartments (as opposed to reducing the minimum spec further like we're doing).

Ideally of course we'd spread the jobs around a bit rather than having everything clustered in Dublin and encourage such notions as working from home as I'm sure there are (tens of) thousands of people who have no real reason to be in the city other than for work, but that'd make too much sense for our lot!

In the absence of that though it's also ridiculous that working people should be forced out into the surrounding counties when there's acres of social housing that could (and should!) be repurposed - but then that wouldn't go down well with certain sections either.

But that aside it is frankly ridiculous that an average 2-bed apartment in a decent area will cost upwards of €1300/1400 per month in a sector that offers no security or long lease options, and is filled with amateur unprofessional landlords who think it should be "easy money" and that's it (and equally tenants who treat it with the same level of disdain).

It's only Dublin FFS not London or New York!

athtrasna

On topic posts only please

Azalea

As said, it is not an eviction notice, it is a standard notification that the tenancy is being discontinued. A minimum of six weeks' notice is required as far as I know.

murphaph wrote: »

Maybe the landlord's kid needs specialist medical treatment and he's selling up to pay for it. OK, highly unlikely but the point is you don't know his reasons for selling. Given the very high rents and static property prices it would seem the landlord is not selling at an optimum time....maybe they really need the money. He possibly even thought the letter might take a bit longer to arrive...doubt he timed it to arrive on Xmas eve to be honest.

I don't think the complaint is about the landlord terminating the tenancy, but the date the notification arrived in the postbox. It's unclear whether the landlord hand-delivered it or posted it. Even if he posted it, it's still crap timing - it would have arrived during the run-up to Christmas either way.

Snickers Man

Arbiter of Good Taste wrote: »

Miserable attitude

"Cast thy bread upon the waters for thou shalt find it after many days"

There isn't a "nice" way to tell someone to get out of their home. But there are many fair and decent ways. And an unexpected note in the letter box on Christmas Eve is hardly one of those.

Tenant should play it by the rule book, IMHO. Which MIGHT mean being an inconvenient and difficult party for the landlord to deal with. From time to time.

Nothing "miserable" about it.