The eviction ban

Ill tell you what will convince landlords that the goal posts will stop moving all the time. More legislation :)

Like you swallow the propaganda of those in government, Tell me did the Developer pay the market price for the public lands on the Oscar Traynor Road?

Theres a little village about half way to Ashbourne from Swords. Was a lovely little village and the srvioces there could cope. You would want to see the place now. Houses everywhere. The whole place is a building site. That place is collapsing under the pressure now and as usual ssome services promised but very little delivered.

The house across the road from me was rented until January. Noone in it since. I was looking out for it on Daft but havent seen it there yet.

I used to know lots of other lanldords but they are all out now but even the last few years none of them were renting using daft.

True

Tallaght is part of the Urban Sprawl of Dublin City, hence considered part of Dublin City. Swords was never part of the sprawl, it's always been its own Village -> Town -> (City?)

I suppose there's the economic activity in the area too that defines whether "a place" is a city/town/suburb. Tallaght has its own hospital, college and has a big industrial area.

they could have given NAMA a remit to do what's best for the country rather than selling so much off to vulture funds.

To be fair the signs of the crises we're in have been around for 6-7 years. House prices and rents were increasing massively. And the government left it far to late to do anything. If they'd done any type of future planning or met any of their targets it wouldn't be as bad as it is now.

Well my property went sold to the council just now. What a relief to be finally out. Now I can sit back and watch the rest of the car crash from the side of the road.

Congratulations on getting out.

That’s an interesting one, not the Pakistani guy, but just in general working in the black economy under the table doing cash jobs, I’d imagine it’s easy enough to add 2 grand a month on top of the dole and HAP, even just cleaning peoples houses would give a decent wedge a month. I know where I am house cleaner charges 60 euro for the morning another 60 for the evening, they know the people they’re working for so all cash in hand 3 days a week’ll give you 1400 on top of HAP medical card, dole and the rest.

Even without the dole it’s still a nice chunk of cash you’d have to be earning 80 grand a year to get similar

The government are supposed to govern. they should have provided a solution to this before it got so bad. But if someone holds over in a place because they have no alternatives, I can't blame them. I don't want them to do that. It is wrong. But for them to live on the streets could be worse.

And there aren't really alternatives. there's so few properties available. And the ones that are available are massively over priced. Buying isn't really an option. Most people can't save enough for a deposit and rent. If they could then they would have bought already. The cost of a mortgage is less than the cost of renting.

they could emigrate. I did. But that's not an option for a lot of people. Moving to another country/continent is a pretty drastic course of action when all you're trying to do is find somewhere to live. That's the kind of thing you expect refugees to do. It also costs a lot of money. I'm single and I spent thousands moving. I can imagine if you have a family it would cost a lot more.

People are planning. they are trying to find somewhere to live. Do you think they're lazy? Go onto daft and myhome and find somewhere to live on a budget, say 1500. And remember that if you apply for it, you'll probably have a hundred other applicants.

Depends where you go in England.

Anyway the point is that these couples are getting out because there's no future here. And they're not alone in thinking that.

Id say his bluff was called. Probably never was a source.

They've done the checks. While there may be some risk attached, they're still in a much better position to buy a home and start a family than they will ever be here. Assuming the shambles re:housing is allowed to continue and fester.

That's the state of the nation for a lot of 30 somethings here. Bust a move now before it's too late.