What a joke

Pissy Missy

Didn't realise how expensive it was to rent in Dublin 8. €4,200 a month and you're only allowed to stay there for less than 5 days a week - it's only available from 2pm on Sunday to 10am on Friday. The €4,200 doesn't include bills. And they rent it out as Air B&B from 3pm Friday to 11am Sunday 🤣🤣 Da actual fcuk!?

https://twitter.com/crazyhouseprice/status/1563169188415303680?t=jXLwaeBE2q1yJnL-SKSNKQ&s=19

YellowLead

Seems to be a house not a room

Pauliedragon

It's a 5 bedroom house OP not a room.

Jim_Hodge

Hardly your typical house rental and no, it's not a joke. Dunlin 8 " was named one of the "coolest neighbourhoods" in the world by Time Out in 2021. Forecasting by Knight Frank put the area on a so-called global hot list."

lawred2

saw this earlier... it's up on AirBnB for the weekends. This lad lost touch with reality. That's why the clear out for the weekend.

Pissy Missy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530778#Comment_119530778

My bad

Pissy Missy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530793#Comment_119530793

Oops

Pissy Missy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530808#Comment_119530808

What's so cool about it though

Pissy Missy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530812#Comment_119530812

Cowboys

nullzero

It's a house and not a room therefore everything here is legit.

The owner is a scumbag in reality.

Dublin 8 cool - lol.

anewme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530971#Comment_119530971

You should edit your opening post to reflect the facts OP .

More Twitter outrage that is nonsense.

Similar to the drama over an 8 euro breakfast roll, but it was actually 2.

I dunno really, 5 beds at 800 per month is 4000. So would people take a room Monday - Friday for just over 800 a month?

There would definitely be a market for that.

Pissy Missy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531013#Comment_119531013

Edited it, ta

They might only rent it out per 4200 a month and not per room, idk

Maybe there's a market for rich people who have another house to go to on the weekends 🤷‍♀️

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058260670/what-a-joke

It's to keep the riff raff out. Keep the people from Cork or other foreigners out.

anewme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531045#Comment_119531045

I would think they definitely want one person to take it on, but it is an obvious sub-let or group let.

There would be plenty of workers/students in the City Monday - Friday in the City who would come back Sunday evening and go home Friday and would be delighted with their own room in Dublin for around 800 a month.

Your edit does not specify it was a 5 bed house, so still reads a bit over dramatic and not reflecting the facts.

Not sure why anyone would be surprised at any house in Dublin, given the current house pricing situation.

E170 a week to share a twin room in Galway for students.....long past time for price controls to be brought in

https://mobile.twitter.com/Lorcan_od/status/1563620461635936258

A house in the Hamptons wouldn't be worth it with those stipulations.

You're right OP, a load of bollocks.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531141#Comment_119531141

What's wrong with lucozade...apart from the feckers taking most of the sugar out?

anewme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531141#Comment_119531141

Dublin 8 has been on the radar since the 90's.

Know someone who bought a house in 96/97 (cant think of the street but it was near Christ Church). They refurbed it and sold it just before the 2008 crash for crazy money. Enough to buy their next house mortgage free.

I'd love to live Portobello myself. Think its a great area.

Thought Portobello was Dublin 6?

Not all, but much of D8 isn't nice at all. But same with Stoneybatter. These are loved by the artsy types. Same with Shandon and Barrack Street in Cork.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531240#Comment_119531240

President's house is grand.

Leg End Reject

Dublin 8 includes Dolphin's Barn, Inchicore, Islandbridge, Kilmainham, Merchants Quay, Portobello, South Circular Road, the Phoenix Park and the Liberties. 

I had to Google areas in D8, Portobello is the only so called desirable area there. I don't think any sane person would call Dolphin's Barn desirable.

anewme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531240#Comment_119531240

No, Portobello is Dublin 8. Stretches down to meet Dublin 6. I have friends in Portobello and Harolds Cross Bridge and its a very short walk between the 2.

Think that is the challenge with Dublin - size wise it is not a huge area, so areas are very mixed.

Some areas in Dublin 8 are not great, but some are perfectly fine.

I dont think there is a postcode in Dublin that is not mixed.

anewme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531274#Comment_119531274

No, its not actually. It is clear you do not know the area at all and are relying on google.

The majority of those areas have good areas.

Dolphins Barn is Rialto, some good properties in that area too.

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/make-a-move-to-kilmainham-cosy-cultured-and-convenient-1.4073282

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531324#Comment_119531324

I relied on Google to see what areas are included in D8, but I wouldn't be too keen on walking home on a dark evening in some of those areas. Now there's parts of my own home town I'd say the same about too.

anewme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531341#Comment_119531341

I would say same applies to most towns/suburbs in Ireland.

I would have been terrified of Limerick, but people living there tell me there are some great areas there.

Local knowledge is everything.

Leg End Reject

Some of the renovated houses in Portobello are gorgeous and lots of rough areas are gradually being gentrified, but the prices are eye watering in those areas.

The owner of the house in the OP is a gouger though, no way would I rent a room that had strangers in over the weekend. You'd need to inspect it with an ultraviolet lamp before you touched anything.

TomSweeney

God Dublin is a f*cking kip ... and with what is coming down the line with massive hikes in bills ....

Pissy Missy

I now understand why 300 people queued up to see a "**** room" that I read about, there's clearly very little to offer, especially where dignity is involved

Ballymun and Donnybrook - all the one.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119532891#Comment_119532891

They're not in Dublin 8.

But actually, donnybrook has a funny auld history.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119533606#Comment_119533606

I know they're not. Just making a comment on the inane and disingenuous "you get the same everywhere" argument.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119533731#Comment_119533731

Dublin is weird. One steet can be amazing another 20 metres away can be warzone.