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14 days quarentine for house before next viewing/let

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  • 16-05-2020 5:00pm
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    Jjohnrockk
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭


    When a previous tenant leave the house, should the LL be asked to leave house for 10 days and not open it for viewing. Assumin LL does not disinfect the house initially and wait untill it is let.

    When you ask people to stay home and we know virus can stay on metal objects for 8 to 9 days why take a chance?


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    Stark
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    Where are you getting 8 to 9 days from?


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    Caranica
    Registered Users Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Jjohnrockk wrote: »
    When a previous tenant leave the house, should the LL be asked to leave house for 10 days and not open it for viewing.

    When you ask people to stay home and we know virus can stay on metal objects for 8 to 9 days why take a chance?

    Previous tenant should have cleaned the property to a sufficient standard.


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    DubCount
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    Cant wait for the first case to come before the RTB where a LL sprays a tenant with disinfectant while wearing a hazmat suit !!


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    housetypeb
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    DubCount wrote: »
    Cant wait for the first case to come before the RTB where a LL sprays a tenant with disinfectant while wearing a hazmat suit !!

    Only after rent and deposit has been handed over,of course.
    Otherwise it's just a stranger you're hosing down.


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    Jjohnrockk
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭Jjohnrockk


    Stark wrote: »
    Where are you getting 8 to 9 days from?

    Logic is because of maximum a Virus can stay on metal objects. Life of COVID 19 virus. i.e

    Thats what nations are sanitizing the trams and metros everyday.


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    Jjohnrockk
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭Jjohnrockk


    Caranica wrote: »
    Previous tenant should have cleaned the property to a sufficient standard.

    Tenant may clean with say water. There is no onus on tenant to use alcohol based liquid from COVID perspective.


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    Jjohnrockk
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭Jjohnrockk


    Stark wrote: »
    Where are you getting 8 to 9 days from?

    Few news and views online from medical professional and initial updates from WHO is the source.


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    Gumbo
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    Jjohnrockk wrote: »
    When a previous tenant leave the house, should the LL be asked to leave house for 10 days and not open it for viewing.

    When you ask people to stay home and we know virus can stay on metal objects for 8 to 9 days why take a chance?

    Once the tenant pays the first months rent then they can wait 14 days no problem.


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    Gumbo
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    Jjohnrockk wrote: »
    Tenant may clean with say water. There is no onus on tenant to use alcohol based liquid from COVID perspective.

    Which means it can be cleaned in a few hours using the right products.
    Tenant in next day. None of this 24 day BS.


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    ted1
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    Jjohnrockk wrote: »
    When a previous tenant leave the house, should the LL be asked to leave house for 10 days and not open it for viewing.

    When you ask people to stay home and we know virus can stay on metal objects for 8 to 9 days why take a chance?

    No. Just disinfect the place, it kills the stuff as opposed to waiting it to die naturally


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    cython
    Registered Users Posts: 4,767 ✭✭✭cython


    Jjohnrockk wrote: »
    When a previous tenant leave the house, should the LL be asked to leave house for 10 days and not open it for viewing.

    When you ask people to stay home and we know virus can stay on metal objects for 8 to 9 days why take a chance?

    By the same logic a property should only be shown once every 10 days or so, for fear that one potential tenant would leave behind something to infect another, or indeed the eventual renter. Or, you know, people could take a bit of personal responsibility and exercise common sense. If you can practice social distancing and proper hygiene as part of the viewing then there should be no greater risk than going to the supermarket.

    Now as to whether a property should be left completely idle/vacant for a duration before someone begins to occupy it (viewings included), well that might be a slightly less unreasonable proposition, but probably equally unworkable.


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    Wesser
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    Leave the house an hour to let resp droplets settle, then clean with disinfectant, then good to go.


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    Jjohnrockk
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭Jjohnrockk


    cython wrote: »
    By the same logic a property should only be shown once every 10 days or so, for fear that one potential tenant would leave behind something to infect another, or indeed the eventual renter. Or, you know, people could take a bit of personal responsibility and exercise common sense. If you can practice social distancing and proper hygiene as part of the viewing then there should be no greater risk than going to the supermarket.

    Now as to whether a property should be left completely idle/vacant for a duration before someone begins to occupy it (viewings included), well that might be a slightly less unreasonable proposition, but probably equally unworkable.

    Agree. Idea was to seek opinions. I'm not an expert in any field. Thanks for a well thought of post


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    Jjohnrockk
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭Jjohnrockk


    Gumbo wrote: »
    Which means it can be cleaned in a few hours using the right products.
    Tenant in next day. None of this 24 day BS.

    Offcourse if LL does so. Forgot to add this as a condition


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    Gumbo
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    Jjohnrockk wrote: »
    Offcourse if LL does so. Forgot to add this as a condition

    Possibly paid for out of the security deposits.


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    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Caranica wrote: »
    Previous tenant should have cleaned the property to a sufficient standard.
    Oh ya, that will really work.


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