Varadkar hits the right note for Landlords

A bunch of landlords in this thread. Cop yourselves on lads, you're not the ones hard done by!

I heard some bint on the radio yesterday saying landlords are getting out of it. And they say this like it's a bad thing? What are they doing with it? Demolishing houses? Leaving them empty? No, they're selling them to first time buyers who are renting.

Leo has some neck. You can switch it around to basically mean one persons income is another person rent with the rates of rent in this country.

Landlords whinging would sicken your hole. "blah blah costs are gone up". You bought your house at a fixed price. If you bought your house 3 years ago for 300 thousand you have made a gain of around 35k+ so far just on capital appreciation. Your mortgage costs are actually getting lower because some companies entered with new products. Your rent has been going up 4% each year, that's over 12% in just 3 years! You're riding the tenants. And that's just those who bought 3 years ago who by the way I would have no pity for them if prices crashed after buying to let in an inflated market.

Don't get me started on the lads who bought 10 years ago. Peanuts mortgage, house price over double.

All you landlords can have your little circlejerk and cry about how you're the ones hard done by. You are leeches on society.

Landlords, the ones people are defending in this thread, do not supply housing. The housing is already there. If all those landlords woke up tomorrow and sold, they'd be filled by people currently renting anyways.

For every happy little tenant paying rent, there's another first time buyer paying 50% of their income on rent who can't buy.

So yes, if every landlord exited the market, we'd have a rental problem but the buyer problem would be massively reduced.

The tax burden isn't the issue, paying tax is a sign of profit , its all about the grossly disproportionate rights in favour of tenants

I don't see how that makes the problem of today any worse?

We have a shortage of properties for sale. Landlords selling would mean more properties for sale, that's a good thing.

Yes, then there'd be a bigger rental problem, but the buying problem would be smaller.

It's like a sliding scale with landlords and buyers. If you had 100 houses on the market and they were all bought by landlords to rent, you'd have more rental supply but those buying would have 0 chance.

You do realise we have nearly 16k properties for sale today. We have a location problem, not a supply problem

The rental issue are for people who cannot afford to buy houses, also we should be moving to a model like every other country in the World with long term rentals, not drive rentals out of the market.

Long term gets notice when you have years, you have regular occurrences of a couple of months rent loss and tenants walk away to do it to another property

Or damage to property over the deposit and they walk away, all regular and not tracked

Want to fix the rental crisis, rental houses should be unfurnished. Unpaid rent after 21 days gets 14 days notice to comply. If rent still unpaid after 45 days landlords or agents remove tenant and belongings onto street and change locks. It should never be a landlords responsibility to house freeloaders, that's the job of government.

Renters in this country have had it far too easy for far to long time to even the scales back up and give the landlord protection from rental arrears and damage.

Stop trolling, lol

Tenant pays for all that through rent.