Winter 21/22 Eviction Ban (was: And just like that, FFFG lose 298000 votes))

I know of three people who bought council houses that initially they were renting, or in one case their father was renting it, two of these cases made a tidy profit by selling the houses later.

In one case to be specific, she sold the side garden first not cheap then at a later stage sold the house too.

You would think the council should have had some rules in place to avoid these scenarios.

Personally, if the state gets its "housing for all" bill and were to try to take my house, it would find itself the owners of a smoldering pile of salted earth.

There are former council houses in Stillorgan that were sold off in the 1980s, I believe. Probably they went for 20-30k a piece. Today, they would get close to 700k if put to market.

Indeed, but the point I was making was that the tenants who bought these houses bought them when the price was 2-3 times the yearly joint income. Today, the houses are worth 8-10 times the average income.

Well yes, that's true. We had a golden opportunity to trim the state down to size, get spending under control and deflate all of that celtic tiger property madness back to a reasonable level. However "we" didn't do that. The globalists who run this pension fund with a flag wouldn't have that.

You would want to pull your political rhetoric many notches back towards sanity. This is not your first post to go wildly over the line.

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I guess a less dramatic headline is:

'Woman who chose not to pay her rent forced to move into parents holiday home until August as a direct consequence of her own decisions'

"Towards the end of her tenancy Michelle began saving for a deposit for a new home, hoping that she would be able to cause as little upheaval for her children as possible. However, this led to her falling into arrears on her rent (€248)"

How is it that she isnt eligible for social housing due to a very small level of arrears, when 60% of South Dublin council tenants are in arrears?

I assume its because she left the property and so is not an existing council tenant.

Whereas if she had stayed in the property, her debts to the council wouldnt matter.

I cant believe thst a single mum with 5 kids wont get housed though. There must be some other scheme she can claim through, even of the HAP door is closed. Bht she probably needs to declare herself homeless first.

It's an exceptionally rare event that a "hard case" in the media here is accurately and fully reported and has no oddities.

Reporting this type of thing generates its own momentum, it's like advertising: 'Get your story in the papers and you might get a house'.

Easy work for any lazy journos and helps the people who don't pay their rent avoid consequences of their actions, very admirable all round.

Our tenant has not have had to pay any contribution towards HAP for 10 years, as we set the rent below HAP limit and have not increased it in ten years. (Housing in Co. Council was gobsmacked). Just to clarify, he has had to pay zero (0.00) as a contribution to HAP. He asked my husband ten years ago to reduce his rent, as he said could not afford the contribution. Yes, we thought we were kind, but turns out we are dumb.

We told him from the start of the tenancy that the cottage was for our children if they wish to move there in the future. It is a year since we issued a NTQ. He said he would leave at the end of November last year, but when we didn't see him moving anything out. The agent contacted him two days before the end of November asking him if he was still leaving and he declared "Well no, am I not entitled to stay?". Clearly by law he was... I increased the rent to 950 euro, as my daughter is paying that currently in rent (note: 950 euro from her net income, he is receiving DA due to fybromalgia). This was to kick in at the end of May. He wrote to say that he could not move into his accommodation until the beginning of June (obviously still wanting to avail of not having to pay any rent for April and May). We applied to RTB for a determination on overholding and suddenly he found a house in another county within two days 🤨 The agent said he had a change of heart when she told him that overholding may affect his ability to find rental in the private market. I now realise that we have enabled a parasite. I rang Housing and he hadn't disclosed that he is working part-time (teaching music lessons). I would not be surprised that he was going to continue HAP in our County and also receive HAP in the other County. Plays the drums for hours at end, must be hard on the wrists and shoulders 😅. I am currently watching him nimbly climbing a shed he built to disassemble it, working for the last 7 days filling his trailer with turf and timber. Maybe it is time to get a medical review 😐️

A low life, good on you for getting rid of this parasite that our tax indulges them.

Lads like that forget that all the agents talk to each other. You biggest bother will be the other agent will not take him.

Karma definitely comes around. I had a parasite that believed the world (and me) owed him for everything. Nasty piece of work who it took an age to get out. It was only this year that my husband has heard about all the nasty stories he was telling people about us and they believed him UNTIL they had the pleasure of him crashing at their houses and ripping the p1ss.

He eventually stepped on the toes of someone that shouldn’t be messed with and has left the locality and I think he’s left the country 😂 Karma sure is a b1tch but I must say I sleep soundly now he’s not my problem 😉

Here's a landlord who doesn't seem to care about the RTB rulings. He sublet a property and as tenants left, he AirBnB'd the vacant rooms. He gave NTQ to the remaining tenants, removed white goods and put tenants possessions out. RTB fined him €12k per tenant and he appealed it.

What I don't get is how he can be fined if he is not the owner - does the owner not need to be at an RTB dispute?