Letting Agent entered my property without consent

Anyone who seeks to lie to someone to profit is engaged in an act of fraud -- as the letting agents have done.

I will not apologise for calling that mendacious action out.

And anyone who engages in such behaviour -- over and over again -- knows exactly what they are doing, lying to people to generate income -- and yes, that's nasty, and it makes the letting agents nasty people.

Again, I won't apologise for calling nasty people out for what they are.

Defend them if you wish, but I would like to assume you are in a minority.

Just to follow-up on this.

Twice I raised in emails now -- both on the 5th March (when she unlawfully entered my apartment) and on the 8th (my official move-out date) -- her transgression into my space and both times, completely ignored. I think that silence speaks volumes because anyone who were innocent of such an allegation would take the time to at least deny it.

That aside, I reached out to the letting agent today requesting my deposit to be paid back to be in full, given the list of transgressions against me during my tenancy -- many of which I have outlined over the course of this thread (the unlawful clauses in the lease; the unlawful rent increases; the unlawful entry to my apartment; their refusal to pay for essential repairs and maintenance, asking me to shoulder all costs etc.).

I said to her that failing to provide me with my deposit in full would mean I will contact RTB and refer all unlawful activity to them, and to seek my deposit back too.

I said I would not communicate with her any further as she lost all moral and legal legitimacy to deal with my deposit.

By the way, this post has 17 thanks and completely misrepresents my position.

The letting agent in question several weeks ago gave me a glowing reference to those reviewing my latest application. I was the perfect tenant i.e. always paid rent on time -- and never caused an issue. The apartment remained perfectly upheld and I never caused an issue with neighbours over the course of three years.

Second, I was not "ignoring communications" from the letting agent. I never have done so. Instead like most people in the world, sometimes we have very busy days. That day, I ignored all communications given my work and personal commitments. I had every intention of getting back to all those who contacted me that day. There is no legal obligation to get back to anyone - letting agent or friend or family member or random person - within a few hours. Let's be reasonable here, not religiously anti-tenant.

Third, what happened at the time happened during the last week of the lease. She unlawfully entered the apartment on March 5, when we already had agreed to meet on March 8 for the final inspection. Given the timeframe, I was obviously trying to clean the apartment as best possible during the final week. It wasn't the last day, nor was it the last hour. Again, you misrepresent my characterisation.

Fourth, I never broke the lease agreement. Bin charges, according to the contract I signed, are only paid at the very end of the lease, deducted from my deposit at a rate of €175 per annum. You just made that up, again.

All rent was paid to date, on time.

I left the apartment, as agreed, on March 8 - with full rent paid throughout my tenancy.

So for all the people liking that comment, assuming I'm some awful tenant deserving of financial exploitation by the letting agents, perhaps you should think again before blindly agreeing to a randomer who knows nothing about my situation -- yet who claims to know everything.

Is there any possible way to identify the landlord of an apartment, or must it always go through the letting agent?

I want to retrospectively receive the rent credit so I'm actually very unsure what the process is here. The letting agent refused to give me any details that my accountant asked for (it's how I found out about it), ignored my first email, then when I followed up a week later, they said they would give me the requested details in lieu of me leaving the apartment (as the property had "suddenly" been sold).

Here is how they framed it:

I ignored the above, and ignored pursuing the rent credit details any further given this latent threat of termination. Of course, they must have known I would ignore.

It turns out the termination notice was never delivered to me anyway.

I suspect the property is not registered with the RTB and this was their way out of it.

Ah, I didn't realise the landlord had to be identified on the lease.

I tried to use the land registry just now, but nothing comes up except for the address.

When I used the RTB search, nothing comes up for the property either.

I'm going to contact RTB and ask them for the RTB number.

It's circumstantial evidence.

I have evidence of 2 missed calls; I have evidence of my arrival at the property (due to a Bolt arriving there); I have evidence I was cleaning up at the time; I have evidence that minutes before she entered, there was a missed call; there is evidence she entered the property block (due to CCTV); there is evidence on my phone that I contacted my other half to say just what happened; I have evidence I contacted her later that day, with no denial (and no denial from a second email days later). I have evidence of their long-standing commitment towards lying and acting counter toward the law, whereas I have always behaved upstanding and in accordance with law.

It is beyond reasonable doubt that she entered, even if there is no video footage.

It seems the letting agents have already prepared their defense, so to speak.

Here is what they sent me:

On the first condition, they refer to bin charges.

On the second condition, they have "taken photos of all areas", without stating any specific issues -- yet.

Third, they say the "washer / drier" was not on the premises and was disposed of. The washing machine broke and I replaced it, yes -- now they are saying they are removing the perfectly new washing machine (and new fridge) I bought to replace the broken ones (at my own expense).

Yes, I told them I would not agree to their final inspection due to how they conducted themselves in the past.

In other words, they are preparing to scam me for even more money, knowing full well I plan to escalate to the RTB.

These people are shameless, immoral scammers. How they live with their conscience is beyond me.

Note also how they don't even acknowledge any scam against me, or their inappropriate conduct against me, over the course of the tenancy. It's funny how they only seem interested in law and conduct when it matters, to them and their interests only. How convenient.

And as I said earlier, the letting agent admitted to me that she heard me inside and just decided to enter on that basis (where she just ignored my frustration at her entering to challenge me on whether she needed to hire a painter "...as it takes 2-days to arrange"; as if the painting in the apartment was my priority; it's the landlords; and an inspection was due to take place on Friday anyway).

It was never on any other basis, just the brass neck of the agent to think they can do whatever they want and get away with it.

I will absolutely pursue this as far as I can, no matter the cost. Because I've been scammed in the past (from a person in the US), and I swore to myself I would never allow that to happen again.

People such as the letting agents who make a living off the back of lying to people to generate extra cash are fundamentally sick in the head. And someone needs to call them out, and I certainly intend to.

Wrong.

The letting agent made no communication with me at all that they would be arriving at the apartment, let alone that I had agreed to such an arrangement. In fact, the day that she entered the apartment was my first time even seeing her (every other communication was through email or call). We agreed to meet at 12pm on the Friday, that was the time for the final inspection, period. Nothing was agreed before that; she just turned up unannounced.

Don't make things up as if you know more about this situation than me, please.

"They also announced their presence by knocking" -- I didn't know who it was, and I wasn't expecting anyone to call at my door; not my cousin, my friend, my other half, the letting agent -- nobody was expected. I was shocked to hear someone entering; I could have been naked or anything.

On the RTB point, I did discuss the matter with them and they told me the apartment was not registered. To my alarm when I checked the registry the other day, I still cannot find the address listed when I search for it. I will follow-up about this in due course.