Um.
Simon writes:
It’s a literal shed in Finglas for €1160 a month. Worse, if I put a couple of minutes into looking harder, I could probably find 2 more even more expensive ones.
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that’s a contravention of planning right there. only thing is, if you report it to DCC planning you might expect them to respond in about 18 months time.
not really an apartment. As its not apart of anything. garden shed for rent.
i know people are desperate, but if its this bad, need to ask question if they should be working and living in dublin.
At least they were thoughtful enough to put a sofa facing the bed. it’s important that guests can sit comfortably while they observe you sleeping.
That’s the cousin of the crying chair, the laughing couch, where members of Fine Gael come into your “home” and laugh uncontrollably at your misfortune and remind you its all your fault for not being born rich like them.
What next, a time share in a mattress.
I presume the tiny timber shed is then sublet by whoever rents the ‘appartment’?
That’s the bathroom silly!
A gas job alright.
That’s Mickey Mouse stuff. This is the way you do it:
Buy a 4 bed house in Dublin. (location unimportant)
Turn all the rooms except the kitchen into bedrooms.
You have a 8 room house.
Rent each of the rooms for €550 for a bed or €1100 for a room.
Rental income of €8800 a month – €105,600 a year.
You then ‘lease’ it to your pal (business partner) who then in turn sublets it as ‘licenses’ to foreign language students.
BINGO.
Dublin City Council can’t do anything because it’s a long term let (to your pal).
Then in turn the Residential Tenancies Board can’t do anything because it’s under a license agreement.
The 2 bodies don’t communicate with each other so you’re in clover!
I lived beside an apartment like this in island bridge, two sets of bunk beds in every room except the kitchen , so four to a room, twelve in the house, all Brazilian. Fupping depressing.
Unless your business partner is living in the flat it isn’t a licencee arrangement it is a sublet so the RTB can be involved.
Even if it were a licencee agreement minimum standards must be adhered to.
Yup. I know a lad doing this. A smiling, cocky, self assured unpleasant chap altogether.
False advertising and fake news -in my opinion it’s the smaller garden apartment not the big one for that.
Just trying entice people,next thing you know you’ve signed a lease and your in the dog house.
What a dreadful reflection on our political class and NAMA,it’s an indictment of Irish incompetence.
Aye, ‘shed life’ eh? This is all sorts of depressing and so far down on the scale of priorities for the governing peeps that it’s unlikely to change anytime soon.. the six months max thing ensures rent capping also. Greed followed by greed..
People are willing to pay 1K for this (assuming it will rent)… but at the same time people are objecting to the building of 1-bed apartments in town becasue there is no need?
…there is no irish capital,none to build housing which is capital intense,the ones that have assets in real estate these days are yanks,why would they finance new builds ?
In the old days pre NAMA,you drew down loans based on asset appreciation to build,if FFG via NAMA strips away all your assets,then simply flogs them to yanks for peanuts,you get no new irish homes as you can’t get any loans…..hell of a way ‘fix’ the irish banks – huh !
How did the Irish governments of the 50’s and 60’s manage to build so many houses, without much technology, a large workforce, or heavy machinery? Way beyond anything achieved in the modern Ireland.
So technically, Ireland’s ability to provide housing for the population right now is at pre 1950’s level of ability, when we used donkeys, ropes and shovels.
Irish progress!
This FG/FF clusterf*** government clearly want a massive win for SinnFein in the next election. They have overseen the destruction of the Irish middle class over 30 years. Job done!
“What need you being come to sense
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer until.
You’ve dried the marrow from the bone…”
Yeats was right. We’re a nation of grubby shysters.