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Best tenant experience?

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    #32
    Lux23
    Registered Users Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    As a trader are you allowed pick tenants based on their sex and age?


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    #33
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    Lux23 wrote: »
    As a trader are you allowed pick tenants based on their sex and age?

    Are you allowed to do it? No. Does it happen? Yes.


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    #34
    lcwill
    Registered Users Posts: 259 ✭✭lcwill


    Monokne wrote: »
    Apologies for multiple posts in a row, but can I just add I am legitimately astonished at the multiple people who agree on the difficulty of changing a bulb. I am USELESS round the house, but I honestly thought anyone over the age of 10 could change a light bulb! Learn something new every day eh? :)

    I once got called by tenants who said the vacuum cleaner was broken - when I got there I discovered they had never changed the bag. It was literally exploding. Still at least it proved they were doing some cleaning (this was a group of 4 male students in early 20s of whom not one knew how to change a plug


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    #35
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,952 ✭✭✭Monokne


    Lux23 wrote: »
    As a trader are you allowed pick tenants based on their sex and age?

    I don't mean to be dense here, but what exactly are you allowed to pick based on? If you've 20 people offering, are you just meant to pick a name out of a hat???

    Incidentally, for the record given I started the thread:

    I had in excess of 20 people view the place on Monday. Every single one made me offers, some well above the asking price. I was unaware how desperate people were for somewhere to rent.

    I had every profile - young couples, young singles, older couples, older singles, people with kids, people without, people on the HAP scheme and not working and professionals with money to burn (judging by the figures offered me!). Must admit it was a wrench going through the whole process as a lot of people were quite desperate and obviously I could only choose one!

    In the end I picked a young couple - late 20's, early 30's, living in Ireland the past few years. They seemed quite house proud and I just felt I clicked with them and we might get on reasonably well. I was forthright with rules and expectations. I worked in recruitment for a few years and one thing I learned is people can blag their way through an interview and turn out to be completely different to what they sold you, so there is no guarantees I picked well. But I am happy with my decision and a couple of posts in this thread helped me along the way, so thanks folks. :D


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