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Rent a Room - OMG Prices

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    #32
    Arcade_Tryer
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    currants wrote: »
    Subletting a room is not a business. This couple are not in business, they are simply chancing their arm in trying to get a tenant to subsidise their rent
    It's a market transaction, and therefore there should be an expectation of maximising profits. You could argue any business is simply "chancing their arm", but if people are willing to pay what they are asking, they can continue to do so. And should do so. Competition should see that they do not survive long. There is not enough competition in the rental market in Dublin. Why? Supply shortage. Why? Government and DCC policies.


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    #33
    Yourself isit
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    housetypeb wrote: »
    Really? Every other business in the world charges what the market will bear for their goods to maximise profits, be it the latest smartphone,car,gold, etc.
    Are landlords somehow meant to be charitable while also being a business?

    Ah cut the free market bollocks. There's no free market in housing on this country.


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    #34
    Yourself isit
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    hytrogen wrote: »
    Think you hit the nail on the head, it's mortgage repayments that are the real issue, the fact people are willing to borrow and stretch to obscene levels of debt like we saw in the early naughties. Have we learned nothing?! Like 560pcm is a huge chunk out of anyone's paycheque to be scraping endsmeat together..

    B)

    560 would be affordable to most. Many people would kill for it.


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    #35
    Yourself isit
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    currants wrote: »
    Subletting a room is not a business. This couple are not in business, they are simply chancing their arm in trying to get a tenant to subsidise their rent.
    The worst imaginable response to the housing crisis is the one we have have now- no cohesive policy and cosmetic tinkering at the margins.

    The room itself may not even be legally a habitable space. Looks small.


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    #36
    Arcade_Tryer
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    Yourself isit wrote: »
    Ah cut the free market bollocks. There's no free market in housing on this country.
    You're right, there's not a free market in housing, and that is thanks to DCC and the Government, not landlords. Landlords can only exist within the market which they are operating in, and it's neither their fault, nor their virtue, that allows them to exploit it.


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    #37
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Sorry, not looking to backseat mod, apologies if it seems like it but this is a general trend in D5. Artane has no DART but there is a room going for 850!

    Just sayin' don't get too hung up on that one room.


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    #38
    [Deleted User]
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    Yourself isit wrote: »
    The room itself may not even be legally a habitable space. Looks small.

    Looks a lot bigger than the box rooms being let in most houseshares.


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    #39
    athtrasna
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    Mod note

    Arcade_tryer if you want to continue to talk politics please take it to the appropriate forum.


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    #40
    the_syco
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    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    Link (please remove is you think its out of order).
    Although it says "House is not owner occupied", if the person will be subletting they won't have any rights anyway, and if it's direct off the landlord, then wow on the price.


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    #41
    Weepsie
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    I bet what you're also seeing quite often is tenants who have lost a house mate and who have been given the responsibility to pick their own house mate decide to completely gouge their new housemate to cover some of their own rent and any increase. People will moan about that landlords, property owners, but some of the tenants will absolutely turn to this kind of nonsense too.


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