The eviction ban

The problem with the silver carrot is that when anyone talks about wanting to make terms better for small private landlords to keep them in the market, it immediately results in a horde of people screaming about how landlords should not have ownership rights because they made an investment in property and opted to supply a rental property for a period of time, so they should now have to do so indefinitely, which is absurd.

Ah good to hear- an informed decision is the way to go. I’ve seen inheritances greatly reduced due to the neglect of simple tax and inheritance planning - if relations are good between interested parties and there’s just a small bit of planning things can work out so much better. Best of luck

Leases only work for the tenant, not worth the paper they've written on for the landlord.

Anyway after 6 months tenant as part 4 rights which supercede any lease agreement.

Basically after 12 months lease if tenant doesn't move by there own account you have a potential problem on your hands.

After six months all lease's are considered to be leases of unlimited duration. Ya I. A years time when you come back you can look for vacant possession for your own use however if they over hold it will take 6-24 months to get possession. You have to give a minimum notice of 90 days for tenancies less than 6 months in duration, 152 days for 6-12 month tenancy and it keeps climbing to 224 days for tenancies of longer than 8 years.

You be better off sitting down with an letting agency and getting the property exact situation with them. However technically as you will be abroad there is a withholdings tax on the income

This has changed now so that after 6 months its a 'forever' lease, not 6 years any more. You can still terminate it for your own use if you give correct notice. But as everyone is pointing out getting a tenant out even if you send the correct notice these days is not guaranteed, and if they refuse to leave you are looking at over 2 years to go through the process to get them out. And tenants with nowhere to go are being advised by many politicians to just stay put, even the taoiseach has recently stated in an interview that a judge would be very unlikely to put them out.

You may end up never seeing the inside of the property again if you rent it out, no matter what lease you have. A lease can bind you but cannot bind a tenant so literally not worth the paper its written on.

And if you think thats a funny old situation to be in heres another one.

if the tenant decided that they liked you place and wanted to stay but didnt feel like paying rent, it would take you years and years to get iot back. All the time the tenant could even claim and be judged to get money off you if you dont keep the place up to standards while they arent paying you rent.

The only other option is some cake taker arrangement. This can also go bad, if someone won't move out.

If it only for a year or two I wouldn't bother.

Maybe they just need to ask themselves if its so good why ware all the landlords quitting the business. its so bad that the government are trying to make all sorts of laws preventing them from quitting the business. If its right in front of your face and you can see it, its your eyes that are the problem.

I think its more the tenants whinging than the landlords, they can't find anywhere to live.

No ones listening. Eviction ban is gone. Let LLs leave. End of.

Rent for 6 months at a time.

Someone tried this with their holiday home. Couldn't get the tenants out. Because they had no where else to go.

That's also a terrible idea with rent controls if they bring in selling with tenants in situe which seems likely if things keep getting worse.

Tenants won't ever want to leave if they have a rent controlled apartment, you'll be renting to their grand kids.

The solution is what the institutional landlords do, have many properties, rent them to well off tenants likely to move/buy their own place within a few years and leave the apartments empty for 2 years on rotation across the portfolio every so often if inflation means the rents fall way behind market rents, to re-set the rent between tenants.

We have made lls scapegoats for lack of social housing

Expecting a diminishing supply subject to 50% tax that is not affordable to low income or unemployed, increases a risk of falling into arrears and then protecting with one-sided tenants regs leaving lls picking up the bill while some politicians and LA advise overholding

Privately owned is not a social asset eventually its supply runs out thankfully the larger funds will manage this and partially keep some supply for our important FDI companies.

"A proper system"

Sorry my friend no votes in that option