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  • 19-04-2019 1:01am
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    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭


    Hi all our landlord gave us 196 days notice to leave the property we are renting as he wishes to move back into it.

    That was some 130 odd days ago.

    I’ve just read online that if the landlord wants to move back into the property that there should have been a statutory declaration with the notice? This is not the case this never accompanied the notice just a written notice from himself.

    Does this make the notice void? Should it be reissued for another 196days? Or what way should it work now?

    Thanks in advance.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭utmbuilder


    Yes it's invalid although technically you only had 30 days to appeal. Anyhow that doesn't matter now. When he realises your not leaving in 196 days he will have to take a case to rtb to claim your overholding at which case your counter claim will be the notice was invalid.

    A declaration is vital now , witnessed by a commissioner of oaths even

    Will take another 3 months for that all to happen

    At which case his only option will be to issue 196 days before or after the determination order from his rtb case

    It's tough being a landlord don't put him into an early grave.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭vkus6mt3y8zg2q


    Buy your own house if you don't want to deal with landlords wanting to move back into their own property


  • Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭utmbuilder


    Buy your own house if you don't want to deal with landlords wanting to move back into their own property

    I did and I've it done up like a palace. New build a rated, solar, gigabite broadband

    One of the lucky ones. 900 a month now mortgage


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 872 ✭✭✭martyoo


    utmbuilder wrote: »
    I did and I've it done up like a palace. New build a rated, solar, gigabite broadband

    One of the lucky ones. 900 a month now mortgage

    Fairly sure they are speaking to the OP.


  • Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭utmbuilder


    martyoo wrote: »
    Fairly sure they are speaking to the OP.



    I'm sure the op will buy or would if the bank made it possible. Prior to 2007 1% deposit and people got mortgages

    Now a loan of 226k you need 26000 another 2500fees and 2500 stamp duty

    And 80k a year of a salary


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  • Registered Users Posts: 267 ✭✭overkill602


    utmbuilder wrote: »
    I'm sure the op will buy or would if the bank made it possible. Prior to 2007 1% deposit and people got mortgages

    Now a loan of 226k you need 26000 another 2500fees and 2500 stamp duty

    And 80k a year of a salary


    Thats why banks where loved then and now they carry the biggest bad loan book in europe they cant lend the same way ever again and have the dearest rates.
    Lot of people sill in home not paying a cent off there mortgages comes at a cost


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Well this thread sure got hijacked


  • Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭info13


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Well this thread sure got hijacked

    :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭info13


    utmbuilder wrote: »

    A declaration is vital now , witnessed by a commissioner of oaths even

    Will take another 3 months for that all to happen

    Thanks for the reply!!

    3 months to get a declaration set up? Or for the RTB to react?

    We would love to buy but just not possible at the moment.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Yes, there should have been a statutory declaration.

    But in reality, they gave you 196 days notice (28 weeks, or half a year). Personally, it’s not worth raising it now.

    Are you having difficulty finding somewhere new to live?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭info13


    dudara wrote: »
    Yes, there should have been a statutory declaration.

    But in reality, they gave you 196 days notice (28 weeks, or half a year). Personally, it’s not worth raising it now.

    Are you having difficulty finding somewhere new to live?


    Why wouldn’t raise/ at least question it?

    Yes I’m finding it very difficult to get a place.


  • Registered Users Posts: 602 ✭✭✭tvjunki


    info13 wrote: »
    Why wouldn’t raise/ at least question it?

    Yes I’m finding it very difficult to get a place.
    Don't forget you will need a reference and your name will appear on rtb website for people to see. When you need another place in say a few years any landlord will look there and see you as trouble.
    If you had 192days notice you have been with the same landlord a while so just talk to them.
    I read somewhere that the landlord does not start from day one of the notice again. If you do go to rtb to bring a case against the landlord some of the time will be included in the notice. Will see if I can find it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Fol20


    Personally, i would not bring a dispute against the ll. Your being given plenty of notice to vacate and you want to dispute it on a technicality. You have more than likely been with the ll for a number of years and if you do something like this, as others have mentioned, your name will be publicly viewable on RTB site(i check this every time i have a new tenant) and you may also fail to get a reference.


  • Registered Users Posts: 184 ✭✭sacamano


    Great the know that renters are protected in this country where if they have a valid complaint to make (not saying the above is/isn't valid), they're reminded of the fact that their name appears on the PRTB site and will most likely go against you down the line.

    Maybe the landlord in this case just wants to bump up the rent but is using the old rennovating/moving back in line.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Fol20


    sacamano wrote: »
    Great the know that renters are protected in this country where if they have a valid complaint to make (not saying the above is/isn't valid), they're reminded of the fact that their name appears on the PRTB site and will most likely go against you down the line.

    Maybe the landlord in this case just wants to bump up the rent but is using the old rennovating/moving back in line.

    Legally the customer is within their rights to dispute this and its completely their choice.

    The ll here is clearly not trying to abuse the system and is mistakingly giving a notice without one technicality. If the tenant was given a months notice and lived there for 10 years, that would be a completely different story and i would telling them to dispute this.

    Im just pointing out the obvious and the reality of the repercussions if they do decide to dispute it especially for a frivolous dispute like this.

    I as a ll would read this if i saw their name on the RTB site would read this as BE CAREFUL with what you say to the tenant as they will most certainly use it against me while most tenants and ll alike will be decent and give lea-way. Its a too way street as well and you dont see many ll disputing notices when say a tenant informs the ll by text or by talking to them they want to leave when officially it should be all written on paper. Most people though accept this from both sides especially if you have a good relationship.


  • Registered Users Posts: 267 ✭✭overkill602


    He has had 7-8 years probably at a 30-40% discount is on a second 4 year part4 benefited year from 2 rent freeze and rent regulation why LL just terminates before another part4 starts would have been the best route for all concerned
    Indefinite tenancies must be decided at the start not as consequence of sudden short supply which is not a LL fault
    The LL has clearly drop the ball here, any LLs staying in the business need to be ruthless to match the changing rules and regs all railed against them with more to come for sure, no winners here


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Claw Hammer


    A lot of landlords have never had it so good. They have record high rents, combined with record low interest rates allied with intense demand keeping vacancy rates at the bare minimum.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,523 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    A lot of landlords have never had it so good. They have record high rents, combined with record low interest rates allied with intense demand keeping vacancy rates at the bare minimum.

    Strange that so many are leaving the market then, I wonder why that is?


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Claw Hammer


    Dav010 wrote: »
    Strange that so many are leaving the market then, I wonder why that is?
    They are mostly Johnny Come-Latelys who bought into a story.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Or people that have worked out current yield rather than yield on cost.

    Or people that are now out of negative equity.

    Or people that recognise the government action to discourage private landlords.

    Or people that have heard the genuine terror stories around removing errant tenants.

    Anyways, back on topic.

    OP be careful of relying on an oversight to extend your tenancy. If it doesn't work out in your favour you could find yourself with little to no time left to source alternative rental accommodation.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,523 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    They are mostly Johnny Come-Latelys who bought into a story.

    Have you anything to back that up?

    Considering the buy-to-let market was practically non existent for years due to the economy and credit restrictions, I would have thought most landlords are longer term owners. But I will of course bow to your knowledge that they are “mostly” recent owners.

    Link please.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭JJJackal


    A lot of landlords have never had it so good. They have record high rents, combined with record low interest rates allied with intense demand keeping vacancy rates at the bare minimum.

    A lot of landlords never had it so bad either - eg the landlord about whom the OP is posting. Gave the correct notice but no stat dec (this LL is probably renting his primary residence out)


  • Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭utmbuilder


    tvjunki wrote: »
    Don't forget you will need a reference and your name will appear on rtb website for people to see. .


    can you do a few searchs for us on that RTB website as an example ??

    it doesnt work very well


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,332 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    They are mostly Johnny Come-Latelys who bought into a story.

    Nonsense.
    Either back up this rubbish or withdraw it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,279 ✭✭✭NuMarvel


    info13 wrote: »
    Why wouldn’t raise/ at least question it?

    Yes I’m finding it very difficult to get a place.

    As others have said, it's past the point of raising with the RTB, so the only options you have is to go back to the landlord, or overhold.

    Depending on your relationship with the landlord, maybe ask for an extension. The worst he can do is say no.

    If that doesn't work out, I'd ask for the declaration. You still have a right to first refusal if he moves out within 6 months, and if nothing else the declaration will remind him of that. At least then, you have the possibility of a place in 6 months time, even if it is a very remote possibility. (I'm assuming he hasn't already covered these rights in the termination notice.)

    I wouldn't suggest overholding, if for no other reason than you'll likely need a reference from him for your new place. And in this market, new landlords will easily, and understandably, pick someone with good references over someone without.


  • Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭utmbuilder


    basically you have been served a noticed in which you know is invalid and you are ignoring it, you know it is invalid as what you should of been served is in black and white on the RTB website.


    if you inform the landlord its invalid, people are claiming he can just add a declaration to it which I dont believe is the case as it states by law a declaration must accompany the termination notice


    if you don't inform him, the noticed will expire you where issued an invalid notice he has to bring a case against you and issue a new 196 notice during his long RTB process


    Threshold
    1800 454 454 will advise you on the right action to take, call them Tuesdsay.



    basically when making your choices keep looking for a new home


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭California Dreamer


    A lot of landlords have never had it so good. They have record high rents, combined with record low interest rates allied with intense demand keeping vacancy rates at the bare minimum.

    Oh yeh I had it so brilliantly I am getting out!!!!!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭utmbuilder


    NuMarvel wrote: »
    I wouldn't suggest overholding, if for no other reason than you'll likely need a reference from him for your new place. And in this market, new landlords will easily, and understandably, pick someone with good references over someone without.

    in my experience landlords always giving shining references to get you out of their houses. giving the poster a bad reference when she is stuck in his house would not really be in his interest.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Claw Hammer


    kceire wrote: »
    Nonsense.
    Either back up this rubbish or withdraw it.

    Most of the people complaining bought from 2003 on. People who ought in the 80's and 90's paid very small money for their properties. Apartments in Mountjoy Square from 50k in the mid 90's with S23 allowances meaning the real price was about 35k. They now have their loans paid off, are sittig on considerable capital gain and have record breaking rents. The have never had it so ggod!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,523 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    Most of the people complaining bought from 2003 on. People who ought in the 80's and 90's paid very small money for their properties. Apartments in Mountjoy Square from 50k in the mid 90's with S23 allowances meaning the real price was about 35k. They now have their loans paid off, are sittig on considerable capital gain and have record breaking rents. The have never had it so ggod!

    People who bought 16 years ago are “Johnny come-latelys”?

    €64k for a one bed apartment was quite a lot in 1995, interest rates were 7%

    Section 23 does not reduce the price of a property, in fact it often increases it as it allows the buyer to get tax relief on rental income so these types of properties often had inflated purchase prices. The tax relief only applied if the property was rented out immediately after purchase rather than being owner occupied and there was a significant claw back of the relief if sold within a certain period, I think it was 10 years.


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