Sick of this country

Used to happens now and again by accident the locknon our back door was faulty our back door. When the lads were young and went out we would leave the front door unlocked for them to come in.

Never an issue

Did the OP move to Australia?

It’s all relative. Is Finglas (no offence to anyone in Finglas) equally as safe as rural Bantry?

Yes Ireland is a safe country, at the moment. Is it as safe as it was 40 years ago? Nope!

Day to day crime is on the rise in Ireland. I can honestly say, Garda presence is non-existent. Where I grew up a murder was a horrific event that happened twice in my youth. Lately at least three a year in the past number of years. Personal crime is also on the rise. Certain areas of the “small” town I came from are devoid of people walking at night due to assaults being numerous.

Ireland is STILL safe, yet again though, the direction of this is not good.

You claimed we don't have a housing crisis across the whole country but I reckon from the rental availability figures on Dart.ie that it is hard to deny the fact that yes we do have a housing crisis across the entire country .

Anybody is free to go to Daft.ie and verify for themselves county by county. In fact some counties are probably worse off than Dublin . The availability in places such as Kerry and Limerick and Clare and Tipperary is appalling. These are hardly major metropolises.

I think the main problem is that rental income is taxed by 40% like the rest of your income. In the end, there are better investments than being a landlord, thus many are leaving the market.

I've been trying to find a one bedroom in Dublin for months now, and was not successful at all. In the end, I will probably leave Dublin, after having secured a job overseas.

In fairness, though, income from most investments is taxed at the marginal rate not just rental income.

It would just be looking for the causes.

I think it's fair to say the biggest issues facing the country is the lack of rental housing supply.

Rents are in general to high for the younger people to build up savings for a down payment later on.

There are no real solutions to this problem ( and no voting for SF is not one of them....)

As above, I think enough tax-payers' money ends up in landlords' pockets when the real problem is lack of overall units built. To a certain extent it does not matter whether these are built to rent or built to purchase. Just concentrate on building more units, removing obstacles (planning delays, vexatious objections etc.) to building and attracting inward investment to do so.

You must be in the same club.

Just facts!

Are you living in Gaxa?

Tax an absolute killer especially if you were charging a fair rate.

yes land is indeed finite, solution, start building upwards, reducing urban sprawl....

public finances have been deliberately limited, in order to force us into more credit run economies, this credit is now primarily being used to (re)inflate the value of assets such as, and in particular, property, solution, start encouraging more public money creation methods such as public banks and by running deficits, thus becoming less reliant on global credit markets for our financial needs, which may reduce this hyper inflation in our property markets....

again, most advanced economies have in fact being following the above method of excess credit run economics, also called financialisation, which in fact its mains aims is to simply maximize financial gains, which, particularly since the 08, has in fact moved towards less physical building, and more speculation in these markets. in an irish context, we ve been actually experiencing a deficit in building requirements, on a perpetual basis, since the 08 crash, again noting, this deficit was in fact recognized since the crash, particularly in the dublin region, in which is now extremely chronically serious nation wide, i.e. we ve simply havent kept up with demand for about 15 years now, which means we re hundreds of thousands short of dwellings now, with no real solutions in how to catch up!

yes our public transport is also completely fcuked, billions required there to, on an annual basis, for decades, probably wont happen though!

what people are actually looking for, which in fact is a critical human need, and always has been, and since the cave man, is, 'security of accommodation', not necessarily home ownership, but since we ve completely fcuked up our property markets, neither rental or otherwise, are now fulling this need, so, go us!

..oh and if you think your pension fund is safe, you better think again, as property markets are amongst the most common markets where such funds are invested, so, be prepared!

For security of tenure to be guaranteed, there would need to be a mechanism where the renter is held accountable for the condition of the rental property, and a fast and effective means to remove the tenant should there be a breach of contract.

Housing references should be mandated, and a deposit or rent based on the amount of risk.

As it stands, the government is going the opposite way, "reduce homelessness at all costs" we have landlords leaving the market because they have no support or recourse against the few bad tenants.

I think it's a real chicken and egg situation, and it honestly stems from a poorly thought-out housing and immigration policy.

On the whole I agree.

If you have a house, a decent job and you have your health then Ireland is just fantastic. There's nowhere I'd rather be.

However, I can see how people are struggling with rents or accessing necessary services.

I agree the govt are not supporting landlords and this leads to further exodus of landlords from the market.

But my main point is that it is up to the govt to create a security of tenure/safe environment for both landlords and tenants to exisit in a functioning and stable rental landscape.

Until that happens (I dont see it happening) an individual would be mad not to try and get on the property ladder.

Equally an individual would be mad to get into the rental market eg BTL

I understand that and agree with your point.

The vilification of small landlords has also exasperated housing problems.

I also agree with you when you say I don't see anyone doing anything to try and resolve the current rental market.

Whole country seems to governed on the basis of "likes" from some quarter or other be it the EU or some NGO.

Definitely not for the benefit of ordinary working Joe's and Josephine's.

Rental income is NOT taxed by 40%.

Rental PROFIT is taxed by 40%, like any other business.