Studio flat, Ranelagh Road, Dublin 6
What is it? I want to say “a corridor”, but corridors necessarily have more space than this, to walk down, so actually I’m going to revise that definition to “a cluttered corridor”;
Where is it? In Dublin, again, a place that has very quietly become a sort of Bermuda Triangle of bad rental opportunities at even worse prices than in London, so much so that we may as well declare it “second London” and raze it to the ground appropriately;
Dublin Rental Opportunity of the Week: A Corridor for £660 (Vice)
Dinger writes:
The Dublin rental market mess is now international entertainment…
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Oh yeah, Vice have been including our city in their awful abodes column for a while now.
It’s like a nice gaff was divided length-ways and a wall put in.
Dive! Dive! Dive!
I… kinda like it. Not at that price and not for more than a few weeks/months, but as a curiosity.
I have valid questions about how they got the cooker in through that front door.
They built the corridor around it.
That makes perfect sense. I can’t see why more people wouldn’t do it.
That CAN’T be legal.
Maybe that’s why it now magically links to something marginally less grotty, but with a huge increase on the asking price!
When has that ever bothered daft.ie? It’s like tinder for slumlords.
What a waste of space!
Could easily fit bunk beds there instead and get double the price…
Jeekers. You wouldn’t want to have “thyroid problems” if you wanted to squash through the front door.
Didn’t they make an episode of Black Books about this apartment?!
Do ye see the crying chair?
Yes, it’s there.
Lurking with malign intent.
“Sob sob sob…what am I doing with my life….oooh kettle is boiled…sniff”
What this calls for is yet another Claire Byrne special on Homelessness where:
The minister for begging developers to build something will be pitted against dublin inner cities finest. They will rant and moan about living in hotels and demand that boarded up metropolitan properties be given to them for lifetime rental of €50 a week.
Once again the middle of the road tax payer will not be invited on to give the minister for begging develpers to build something a good grilling as to why there is no SERIOUS government intervention on this.
In the backround the vested interests in this fiasco will rub their hands with glee as their assets rise in value.
Always have a tin of glee to hand. Just in case.
jaysus, thats grim
No way in hell I’d have got through that door at 20, let alone now.
Good training for A&E, lying in hospital corridor for hours won’t be as traumatizing.
Oh, how I lol’d at that….. every cloud etc….Je….sus
Mate of mine was just told by his landlord that the house he pays €700 month for room in is being sold. Despite the rules on how much notice you get, he’s basically been told to get out asap and was told by the landlord,in a subtlety threat, that if there was an issue every trick he can legally use to max his rent would be used.
Tell your friend to grow up, learn his rights & get legal on his landlord right back..
Notice needs to be in writing, and the appropriate amount of time needs to be given..if he intends to sell a signed statutory declaration needs to be provided. i.e. he can’t just say he’s selling without a notarised document on it.
Here –
https://www.threshold.ie/advice/ending-a-tenancy/how-your-landlord-may-end-your-tenancy/
Where a lease agreement exists, notice normally cannot be given to you unless you are in breach of your obligations as a tenant, there is a break clause or both you and the landlord agree at the time to end the tenancy.
At the end of a lease, your landlord cannot simply end your tenancy. If you have been in the tenancy for more than 6 months and have not been served with a notice of termination you automatically acquire a’ Part 4′ Tenancy’ and may remain in the tenancy for a further 5 ½ years.
A notice of termination of tenancy must be in writing. (Email, text or verbal notice is not valid under the law).
Notice may be issued in a number of ways:
– Delivered personally
– Leaving it at the address where the person ordinarily resides
– By post (there is no special requirement for registered post)
– By affixing to the dwelling
It is an offence for a landlord/agent to knowingly take any action in reliance on an invalid notice of termination of tenancy that he/she knew or ought to have known was invalid.
The amount of notice that your landlord must give you depends on how long you have been in the tenancy. Below are the normal notice periods that apply from 4th December 2015:
Length of Tenancy Period of NoticeLess than 6 months: 28 days
6 months or more, but less than 1 year: 35 days
1 year or more but less than 2 years :42 days
2 years or more but less than 3 years: 56 days
3 years or more but less than 4 years: 84 days
4 years or more but less than 5 years: 112 days
5 years or more but less than 6 years: 140 days
6 years or more but less than 7 years: 168 days
-Selling
The landlord can end your tenancy if they intend to sell within 3 months. They must provide a signed statutory declaration that this is the case.
He also cannot raise the rent willy nilly.. 2 years, & 4% max per year after the 2 years. Also 3 months notice required to raise the rent, in writing.
He also might find it difficult to sell a gaff that’s wrecked, if its not already a poo poo hole. I presume your friend wont get vindictive…but you never know how tenants will behave if mistreated.
I would demand an apology and proper procedures being followed should be forthcoming once the landlord is reminded of his responsibilities.
don’t forget that if it goes back on the rental market, the former tenant gets first refusal.
lol
what anne said. Contact either threshold or RTB
Unless the landlord is also living in the house, and then your mate has no rights as he is a ‘guest’ and can be thrown out at any time with zero notice.
To that I’d say “bring it on” – the onus is on the landlord to prove that a rent increase is legal/justified, the tenant can still keep paying the same rent, and it’ll take quite some time to get through the RTB. Call their bluff.
Exactly.
I honestly the RTB is next to useless. He contacted them and was told, if major improvements have been made while he’s living there then a rent increase is allowed. Obviously the owner knows this and has started putting in a new bathroom and kitchen. Which is really just to up the sale price.
um. The RTB are there to interpret and enforce the law. If the law is useless then the government needs to change it.
If the landlord makes major improvements why do you think they should not be entitled to charge more money?
Jesus! A corridor is for rent now in Dublin!! This is beyond farce, there is no one inspecting properties in Dublin. Somebody has to police the situation. Left to their own devices, Irish landlords would be renting out wheelie bins and bath tubs. The situation requires actual Law and Order
It it’s Dublin City and any issue you raised with a landlord haven’t been resolved you can send it to the council:
Contacting the Environmental Health Section
Phone Customer Services on 01 222 2222 . Please provide the following details:
•Your name
•Address
•Contact details
•Details of complaint
•Name and address of your landlord
http://www.dublincity.ie/housing-and-community-policy-and-initiatives-section/environmental-health
there is no way this should/ can be legal
Wouldn’t it be great if the owners partner booted him or her out of home and their only option was to spend 2018 in their furnished corridor
All I can add to this is
“Sliver” – the word is “sliver” not “Slither”.