Homeless homeowner

The rent was changed as each year's lease came to renewal that's how business operates.

If the tenant wanted to find alternative accommodation they could.

It makes no business sense to base a charge on an initial figure and not change it. Does inflation sound familiar? Are you aware of other businesses that operate in the fashion your are hinting at?

According to you. The great thing about the English language is you can use it multiple ways. They own a home so are a home owner. Now say if somebody was away in another country and they said the were going home. It could mean the are just going back to where they are sleeping or returning to the country they normally reside. Who knows? Now say they mean they are going back to the property they bought and lived in before going away!

Can’t have that says DT I hold precious and dear the term “home” to try and make some special case to complain about a pedantic claim like I love to.

It’s language and unless you are autistic you know that. She is a homeowner language didn’t change anything legal here people understand the heading and if you don’t than literally must annoy you too

Absences considered as living in the property

You will be considered to have lived in your property where:

• you could not live in the property because your employer required you to live elsewhere (up to a four-year maximum.)
• you had a job, all the duties of which were performed outside the Republic of Ireland
• your PPR remained unoccupied and you were either:
  • receiving care in a hospital, nursing home or convalescent home
  • resident in a retirement home on a fee-paying basis.

So it's not just the case that you can get married, move in with your spouse, rent out your own home and claim PPR relief on it later for the time you didn't live in it. There are some special circumstances under which it is allowed for the calculation of tax

Ray: Hi Donald - are you are homeowner?

DT: Yes Ray, I am a homeowner. I own a home.

Ray: Cool. Where is your home

DT: It is in Brazil. I bought an apartment off the plans as an investment 20 years ago. It looks nice on the photos

Ray: What? Have you never been to see it in real life?

DT: No. I've never been in that country. I have a tenant who has lived in it for the 20 years. They consider it to be their home. So I am a homeowner.

OK I 'll indulge you. Can you provide an example of how the changes in trading environment has benefited the landlord?

You are correct a landlord could dispose of an asset but at the same time he could leave it vacant. It is his asset to choose what he does with it.

I don't have any issues with "balance" changes in legislation.

Changes in trading environment that benefit the landlord.... hmm, let me see.......

I'm not sure if you are aware, but house prices have increased as have rental incomes. Did you not know?

Billions of public money pumped into private market by local authorities etc.

"was" being the important word Ray

Did they? I must have missed that. Theres a rumour inflation is high? Interest rates are rising? The general cost of business is increasing. These must just be only affecting some people and not others.

And to think local authorities have all that state land and they are being forced to rent in the private sector. Maybe someone should tell them what they are doing is wrong.

Just to be clear, was the notice she served invalid because the notice itself was technically wrong or she didn’t follow procedure, or was it invalid solely because of the moratorium had come into force? The article in The Times seems to indicate it was invalid just because of the moratorium.

”She then rented out her apartment to cover the mortgage while she was living in the Middle East. In July she issued her tenant an eviction notice from Dubai but was told three months later the notice was deemed invalid due to a recent change to rental legislation.

By that time the Government had introduced a moratorium on evictions, meaning if a residential tenant is given an eviction notice by their landlord between the end of October and next March, the eviction will be deferred until April.”

Add to that even if she gave the correct termination notice in June it would have run into the moratorium.

That’s what it looks like to me rather than her serving a technically incorrect notice, maybe I’m wrong, but it seems the article in the paper used the wrong terminology, it may have been a valid notice stalled by the moratorium. If that is the case, she did nothing procedurally wrong in the serving of the notice.

No. The notice period up to early July was 120 days. If she gave correct notice on 30th June, the eviction date could have been 28th or 29th Oct.

In the video clip posted she says she came back in August and had difficulty then. It doesn't appear to have been well planned or organised overall

It is an unfortunate situation, but it is one of her own making

Clearly stated that she submitted what she believed to be a valid notice of termination in July, her notice got found to be invalid by a government agency / charity. It also happened around the time of the eviction moratorium.

The moratorium doesn't have any effect on the validity of a notice of termination, it ony defers the termination date if the date falls within the moratorium period. Valid notices will have their terminaton date staggered to dates between April and June.

It appears quite clear thate original notice was invalid. Even if it were valid and there was no moratorium the owner was returning in August and did not anticipate moving back into their property until January.

Given the original notice was invalid, when subsequent valid notice was issued and minimum notice period is taken into account the termination date would be in April anyway.

Had the original notice been valid the moratorium would have deferred the termination date to April.

The moratorium, unless extended, doesn't have any direct effect on the owner's situation. She didn't expect to be moving back in until January and the original invalid notice / re-issuing of notice pushed the termination date out to April.