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No Lease:One Day Late with Rent

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  • 22-10-2018 5:04pm
    #1
    the whole year inn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,099 ✭✭✭


    I am renting a place now for about 2 months.When I moved in there was no lease to sign and paid a deposit and the following rent for that month.
    I was then a few days late with the rent last month but was paid in full after I got paid,but unfortunatly I only got paid for 3 weeks and was on emergency tax so I didnt see alot of it.Anyways I am going to be a day late with the rent and the tentant that collects the rent said if I cant meet the day of rent then I should move out.
    I am willing to ring the landlord and explain that the rent will be a day late but he wont give me the number,the landlord also wont collect a broken bed that needed to be replaced and a washing machine that had to be replaced and want him to ask him to move it as its taking up space in the house.

    Do I have any rights here as I didnt sign anything,I understand that I have to pay rent on time and just looking for what I can expect if they say I have to move out how many weeks can I expect to get?

    I should also say I paid him 65% of the rent on paypal and only short 35% by a day.


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    #2
    vonlars
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭vonlars


    Who are you paying rent to? If it's to another tenant then you're only a licensee.

    If it's to the landlord then you're a tenant. Then can ask you to leave within the first 6 months for no reason as long as they give you notice.

    Only option really is to start paying on time.


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    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Ask your bank about a payday loan to keep you going until you get your cashflow sorted out. Then get your cashflow sorted out.


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    Heebie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Heebie


    the whole year inn wrote:
    tentant that collects the rent said if I cant meet the day of rent then I should move out.

    This sounds fishy to me. You might be sub-letting from the tenant on the paperwork, which could be problematic later on. If that tenant doesn't have permission to sub-let, everyone in the house could get evicted on a moment's notice if the landlord were to get wind of it.
    This tenant not giving you the landlords phone number makes me suspect that.

    As far as wanting the rent to be on-time.. if he/she is the only one on the paperwork, they are the one that might end up with black marks on a credit score etc.. if the landlord for some reason reports to a credit agency. (In America, this would be a very, very, bad thing. I don't think it's likely am issue here in Ireland, but if that person is from a country where credit score is as carefully monitored as in the US, perhaps they're freaked out about that.
    Perhaps that person had already been t warned by the landlord not to be late "again" because they've been late before.
    Lots of potential reasons they might freak out.


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    #5
    _brendand_
    Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭_brendand_


    To me it sounds like you are a licensee, and regardless of whether the landlord is aware of the situation or not, you don't have any rights. Sorry. The only way you can have rights as a tenant when sharing with other people is to be named on the lease, and this is definitely not the case. Stay on your co-tenants good side.


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