Why do Landlords feel entitled to rent increases?

This. Be careful what you wish for.

It'll cost a pretty penny to furnish a house even cheaply for a renter without much cash.

That’s saddled with debt?

The idea of an unfurnished plebe is you can't leave a place filled with rubbish and broken furniture and walls destroyed. You have to hand it back bare walls newly painted. So no damage and ready for the next tenant.

The idea of the landlord having to move furniture in and out on a whim can only have come from someone who knows nothing about the business.

@ManionDebt slowly strangles economic activity because money that could have gone towards starting new businesses or existing businesses has been diverted to repayments. So it acts like a millstone around our collective neck.

The debt acts as an anchor on economic growth.

Enough debt accumulation will bleed out the standard of living over time but this happens so slowly and imperceptibly that most people do not make the connection between the debt and how they've gradually become poorer.

I remember an economist on an RTE documentary in 2010 saying that the younger generation had not yet realised how poor they are.

Let me give you a specific concrete example. In the US many millions of people paying back large student loans are devoting their lives to it. If there was a debt jubilee tomorrow all those people would freed up for other economic involvements - businesses, trades, more flexibility in their jobs.

We’ve been in our rental house for 8 years and our landlady has never raised the rent. We are paying well below market value. So grateful as it’s allowed us save for a deposit to buy our own house.

I find it hard to believe it wasnt actually designed to get rents up and REITs in and a nice tax wedge for revenue in at the same time, while proclaiming they were doing it for the common man.

Kind of like electricity prices had to increase to get outsiders interested and then they kept going up.

Back when they brought in rent controls it was as obvious as the nose on your face that it was going to drive rents up. There were hundreds of studies from places where rent controls came in that prices only go up.

They had lots of opportunities to reverse it, but hammered more nails in to get rents up again.

Total farce and a total hoodwink of the Irish tax payer.

not only that you can be sure that landlord has no sinking fund for major repairs on the building. When they bring in a new rule on standards the landlord won't be able to rent it out without a massive cost. To an extent landlords are lucky there is a housing crisis as it stopped the govenrnment bringing in a minimum BER rating for rent as was their original plan and on the back burner at the moment. I have external insulation and triple glazing on a property. That is better than my own house.I am actually lucky a tenant is leaving as she finally got on the housing list where she is due a property now only been there 35 years and pays below half the market rate.

Landlords who shoot themselves in the foot and forever devalue their own property by not charging the market rate?

I know that sounds awful and I'd love if people could have lower rents, but sadly, the way the government have put rental increase caps in place, it's impossible to 'be nice' as a landlord at he moment without severely damaging your own financial position.

Renting privately ought not to be a strictly temporary arrangement for most, as you suggest. People's financial circumstances differ. Some are in poorly paid employment, some are unable to work due to illness and there is a general shortage of housing. Take the HAP. Are you aware that the average waiting period for a single person with no dependants to secure council accommodation is twelve years? Why would any private landlord have reservations about accepting HAP tenants? They would not be losing out financially compared to tenanting those working full time and the system for weeding out potential troublesome tenants is more strictly enforced by the local authorities these days. With regard to property the Irish are greedy and have this obsession about owning their own homes - in stark contrast to continental countries. Ultimately, it is this demand for a non-existent supply that drives up prices.

We don't know the situation. But the OP & LL are happy. Surely we can all agree that a situation where a tenant can pay the rent and save money for a deposit plus the Landlord is happy, is something that we all want to be the norm?

I've no problem if a tenants circumstance change and they need to apply for rent allowance or HAP, it's just that using private rental accommodation for social housing is broken, it bad value for the state and tax payer and it insecure for tenants. It's causing more problems that it solves, we should have restarted state backed building of social housing 15 or 20 years ago.

Lots of LL's have had bad experiences with HAP and social welfare tenants, look at it another way, if it was such a great experience they wouldn't have to legislate to make it mandatory.

The average waiting period is my concern as I said renting should be short term in nature, there shouldn't be a long waiting list. All the private LL's in the country isn't going to fix it. The root cause is not enough social housing and that's what needs to be fixed.

There are plenty of threads here where HAP and council tenants have stopped paying and the council won't deal with the LL. Also a few where the council rented a house from a LL then as soon as there was a problem the council walked away and left the LL to deal with the tenata when there was a contract between the LL and the Council and not the LL and tenant.

With stories like that if I didn't know the tenant I wouldn't risk it.

Our obsession with home ownership come from our history, a lot of families suffered at the hands of English LL's and it's lead to a desire to own a home nobody can evict you from. Also renting in the EU is properly regulated, the way it's gotten so out of hand here is down to our government and I'd never advise anybody to rent for life, it's to risky

I leave it so. 😏