Letting Agent entered my property without consent

Agent called to the house on 5 March, I was set to do an inspection with her at 12pm on Friday, 8 March (the date I was officially set to move out).

I see, I'm definitely tempted to file with the RTB if they attempt anything dodgy with the deposit.

On the bins, I received no invoices. I was just told at the outset it would be 175 per annum and it would be taken at the very end of my tenancy. Given I signed a contract, part of me wonders whether I have no choice but to pay it now -- no matter what.

In terms of rent, it was illegitimately increased twice.

Once from 2,200 to 2,270 (after the first year) and then from 2,270 to 2,320 (from October 2023; I was given 2-weeks notice). I think it adds up to 1.5k to 1.7k extra rent or something compared to what I would have paid had the rent not changed at all.

So over the course of 2-years, that extra rent adds up significantly. Am I entitled to get that back? I have email evidence of all.

It still begs the question of whether I am legally obliged to pay the €175 per year?

If I stayed in the property for many, many years, the bin fees would end up exceeding the deposit. It's a bizarre set of affairs.

Ultimately, RTB will decide -- as I'm certain this case will have to be escalated further.

I'm amazed at the level of hostility I have received from some posters for discussing what I feel are legitimate issues against my tenancy.

It's as if some people consider all tenants to be "problems" or liars.

I have had a very stressful time dealing with these letting agents over the past number of years and the sheer level of lies I have discovered since. I come on here asking for legitimate advice, as I have seen others provide very useful information in other threads.

The letting agents cannot possibly be allowed to get away with what they have done to me over the past number of years. That would only enable them to continue the same behaviour to other, future tenants.

It's worth also adding that when I asked them about rent credit and how I can receive it, they ignored my initial email. One week later I followed up with a second email asking about it, and they sent an email to me saying that this was an "opportune moment" to tell me the property had suddenly been sold and that I should seek alternative accommodation going forward. In other words, they said they would provide me with the rent credit details in lieu of me choosing to leave the apartment. In actual fact, the property was never sold and this was a total lie to get me to leave the property. The property itself was never registered with the RTB.

These are sick, nasty agents. How anyone can defend them over me, I simply cannot understand.

It's a shame that it's not a criminal offense, it should be.

A private citizen has no right to enter the private property of another person, even under lease -- and it's a disgrace that no law exists to counter people, such as the letting agent who entered, from doing so.

That said, I hope that the RTB will consider it egregious enough to side with my argument. Though that said, whilst I don't have video footage of the incident in question, there are other forms of evidence that exists which the letting agent would have a hard time trying to explain away.

When the person entered the apartment, I had no idea who they were -- whether they were there to cause me harm, I had no idea. I had never experienced anything like it before, I was shocked it even happened.

I could have been without clothing and this person could just have appeared in my apartment.

As I said, it's alarming. I'm very, very angry at the letting agent for violating my tenancy and privacy in that respect, though it seems some are perfectly happy that the letting agent had done so.

Come on, please don't be flippant like that.