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Lease less than six months, RTB rules

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  • 23-04-2020 2:01pm
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    Spanish Eyes
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    Have searched RTB and elsewhere cannot find the answer.

    Lease is for five months, if tenant refuses to leave will a dispute need to be opened with RTB?

    I know that evictions are paused at the moment, but just wondering in general.


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    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,958 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Answering my own question now, but it might help others. Eventually got a chat with someone on webchat at RTB. A relative had let her house out while she stayed with an elderly cocooning relative (before the travel restrictions). The tenants were refurbishing a house nearby. They cannot get workmen in right now and have said they will not be able to leave at the appointed time.

    Apparently the six month period within which a tenant does NOT gain part 4 rights is just paused, so even if they don't leave, the restricted period whereby evictions cannot happen don't count to bring them into a Part 4.

    In all other respects (if the virus wasn't an issue), overholding and non rent paying issues in a sub 6 month lease involve the same dispute resolution process as any other lease with RTB.


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