Homeless homeowner

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It's you that seems to want it to be about landlord v tenant when it's about something much deeper, the housing shortage that creates a situation outlined in the original post.

Start another thread if thats all you can add.

Finally, re your statement that 50% of this site is welfare bashing or something like that. Everyone knows that between 50 and 76.749% of statistics are made up on the spot. I can't quite decide what the percentage is.

I can't say I agree with the assertion that you have to own somewhere for it to be your home. I rented the same house for 9 years til it was sold earlier this year and I certainly considered it my home. It wasn't my house, though, so obviously it was the owner's decision to make to sell it, but it was my home for a very long time and I loved it.

Currently I make approx 14% profit on my property investment.

The government makes appox 50% in taxes.

My tenants get a home at about 20% under current market rate living close to where they're studying. (they don't need a permanent residence in Dublin as they're foreign students)

I see that as a fairly good result for all round to be honest.

Now what have you done for yourself, the economy or the housing market lately?

Well weren't you an idiot to pay someone else's mortgage

"Homeless Homeowner" Ah sure PBP and SF will solve that after the next election. They will take the house from her and give it to the tenants. Then she'll just be "Homeless".

We can clear semantics up really quickly. THe property owner can call the place her "home" so is a "homeowner" when she rents it out she still own the the property and the tenant calls it their "home". Therefore the property owner is still a "homeowner". As the landlord has no place to live they are "homeless". They are not mutually exclusive even though in language it appears to be against both being possible.

I think you will find I have not said that she did everything right. It still doesn't stop it being a ridiculous situation to come about. It is an illustration of how messed up the market is. It should be easy for people to move about and not to find loopholes to force a landlord to rent to them.

All things being reasonable the tenant should have been able to accept the notice and find a new place. The eviction ban hurt the tenant too as people aren't moving and also not renting out places because of the ban there are less places to move to.

The reality is landlords have to stick to the rules when tenants don't and bad rules creates more problems.

I personally think going to Dubai to work tax free in a modern slave built city is abhorrent. She has fallen foul of the rules and ultimatly that is just life but if you don't find it is an absurd situation then I don't understand your view other than a hatred of landlords.

I'm not sure we should even ascribe the term landlord to someone who lets out their PPR lock stock and barrel. Much and all as I hate the term accidental landlords and the whining that comes with it. It probably describes these people in some way. The whole thing is a bit like someone trying to fix a heating system by watching how to videos on youtube the repair/solution is usually shoddy. Things change in this world surely Covid has reminded people of that. A right whiff of naivety and entitlement off the property owner who has made herself homeless by choice.

Nobody forced you to have a landlord you had other options. You keep telling us that everybody else has options so who took away sleeping on the street from you? Who made it so no family or friend would take you in? It sounds kind or harsh to hear but seeing as that is how you talk to others you can't really have a problem with it, right?

The tenant entered into a commercial trans pure and simple. They signed a contract nothing more nothing less. The laws of the State are enacted over night to cover the failure of the system. If the eviction ban was not in place the issue would have been resolved a lot quicker.

She did not make herself homeless. She choose to rent her home under the rules and regulations in place at the time. A significant number of legislative changes have been enacted since she choose to rent her home (most notably the eviction ban).

As a moderator you should not be casting aspirations on me without knowing me. For your information I am a landlord for the last 13 yrs and I have had the same tenant with me throughout the 13 yrs and has moved with me from property to property.

People have every right to rent but with renting they are doing just that they are renting. They get the use of the property for the period in question, they don't use the rigged system to their benefit.