Accomodation - Riverbank Apartments

seanos

I enquired about the new apartments being built near the college, got following reply ... quite hilerous, any rich takers ?

Please find below information requested on Riverbank Apartments in Carlow.
They will be ready to move into on September 1st 2004.
We are having an open day this Saturday, August 7th 2004 from 10.00am to
3pm.
Entrance will be via the new link bridge over the river Burrin.
We have 36 individual apartments within the building, each apartment being
made up of 2/3/4 bedrooms with single rooms/single en-suite rooms/twin
rooms/twin en-suite rooms. Each apartment has its own hall way and its own
kitchen/living room. The rates are as follows:
Twin Room 65.00 per person sharing
TwinEn-Suite Room 70.00 per person sharing
Single 80.00 per person
Single En-Suite 85.00 per person.
The apartments offer swipe card access, 24 hours CCTV Monitoring, on site
management, all mod
cons including washer/dryer, pipe TV in each living room. They come fully
furnished with all kitchen utensils.
Each bedroom has an
Internet Broadband connection.
The deposit required is 425.00 and is refundable at the end of the tennancy
provided all is intact.
We will charge €12.00 per week per person to cover ESB, Refuse collection,
Pipe TV and broadband connection.
The ESB will be rectified every 2 months, and if we have overcharged you we
will refund you the difference, if it's more we will collect the difference.
The rent is payable Montly via Direct Debit.

elvis2002

yah i emailed weeks ago and got the same reply. People who go in there would have to be rolling in money alright or not aware of much cheaper alternatives. 65 euro for sharing is extorsion and you don't even get ur own toilet and shower, so you share with everybody on ur floor i suppose. Suerly everybody would go for the 70 with ensuite. So lets see, if you want a single room ensuite which my girlfriend got for 55 euro last year in a nice house in southern gardens with no bills like esb or bins., u pay 85 euro plus 12 euro. Ah not many will have that money. How many rich people are going to itcarlow anyways. I would have thought their daddys would be making sure they were in trinity.

Stephen

man, our 62-quid-a-week place in millbrook looks better and better. 4 big single rooms. Bins included... and best of all - a FREEZER!
We've never had anything so fancy before... it used to be 4 of us sharing the tiny ice box in the kitchen fridge.

Kazu

man, our 62-quid-a-week place in millbrook looks better and better. 4 big single rooms. Bins included... and best of all - a FREEZER!

sounds good


68 yoyos a week heating esb bins included small room seven in house only will be interesting

seanos

I'd love to test some of the 'ESB Included' statements

Stephen

"ESB included" normally comes with a clause limiting it to a certain amount per month after which the tenant is liable. Just in case you have 8 nerds with 16 computers moving in, you know

seanos

Pfft, 16 is nothing

Baldy

Stephen wrote:

man, our 62-quid-a-week place in millbrook looks better and better. 4 big single rooms. Bins included... and best of all - a FREEZER!
We've never had anything so fancy before... it used to be 4 of us sharing the tiny ice box in the kitchen fridge.

When you said Ice Box did you mean the appartment or the the freezer steo! :eek:

TomTom

broadband in every bedroom, I wonder what sort of package you get?

elvis2002

ha i dont think it'll be a chance to leech 100 gigs a month.

seanos

Well I enjoyed pissin yer one off with techical questions - she says "Unlimited Usage".
Each room has 2x RJ-45 sockets.
This mean whole building networked ? ... Must admit, I wouldn't be keen on that ...

Looking for place in carlow isn't easist thing to be doin heh.

elvis2002

unlimited usuage.... well if she said it.... I bet she'd change her mind a bit when the bill comes in. ;-)

seanos

They obviously have a leased line, or some kind of corporate dsl.

Unmetered dsl is highly available, once you pay.

sausages

i tell ya this student accommadation is the bigest joke since whatever the last big joke somebody told was. the whole idea of student accommadation is its suppose to be cheaper. what the student union should be doing is getting every body to bycott these places, i started college 4 years ago and the prices varied from 25 to 35 quid, i stayed right in the middle of the town for 35 quid a week, the student accommadation isn't helping rent costs, i mean not only are they charging prices that they should be locked up for, the fact that dumb asses are moving into them means there gettin away with it and if they can get away with it why shouldn't every one else be able to, this is what is happening, in the last 4 years i'd say that the rent in this town has roughly doubled, and i'd safely say any one who is working has not got their wages double, i know i haven't any way,so any students supporting themselves which i would say is more or less all of them, have to work more hours just to pay these money grabbing landlords. and prices are going to get worse, as consumers people have the power to stop this, for starters the students union shouldn't encourage people to move into these places... any way thats my rant for the night.

Moonbeam

Should find out how much the accomodation is in St Pats this year and compare it.

I remember it was slightly higher then the 35 pounds I paid for my lovely house in crosbie place but it included heating and electricity too.

Nearly all rent down there was 35 pounds except if it was far out u could manage to get it for as little as 25.

Then when it changed to Euros the 35 pounds changed to 45 which was still fine.

As for wages going up we have seen the minimum wage and alot more jobs in Carlow in the last few years which probably has somethig to do with it.

Wages for a half decent job there 3 years ago were 5pounds an hour now you would get 7.50 - 8 for the same barwork but that doesn't account for such an increase either.

The other thing is as Carlow grows there is more need for accomodation thus pushing prices up.

the_syco

sausages wrote:

for starters the students union shouldn't encourage people to move into these places... any way thats my rant for the night.

You can't blame the students for the increase. Blame the insurance companies.
Students were living there before you got there, and since then. The year before last, the insurance companies started to increase charges, and a few other charges went up.

elvis2002

hey now, what about people renting out 2nd house's and like, there's no way their paying insurance, or declaring the income for tax purposes.

seanos

WHats insurance got to do with anything ?
...Bull**** if landlords putting up house prices to cope with insurance.
Goes with anything, if no objections when raise price, continue raising till complaints --- students == lazy, so their safe

the_syco

SeanOS wrote:

WHats insurance got to do with anything ?
...Bull**** if landlords putting up house prices to cope with insurance.
Goes with anything, if no objections when raise price, continue raising till complaints --- students == lazy, so their safe

Was talking to Maura. Nice landlady. She doesn't bullsh*t you. It was mainly something todo with upping the insurance on student properties in general, which means all properties...

seanos

Don't mind paying 50 - 60ish for house, orignal point [perish thought of sticking to the point/topic], was however, apartment for 100 yoyo pw

Stephen

a brand new place is always going to cost more - look at those carraig aibhinn (however you spell it) apartments across the road from the college, they're in the region of 85 a week I think.
The landlords are going to be charging the max to get the place to pay for its self as quickly as possible. location location location and all. You're paying for the convenience of living near the college. You can get nice places further away for less money... makes sense really.
I know its wrong that they get tax breaks and all, but obviously some people are willing to pay the premium for these places.