Funny Houses/Flats to rent

Cookie_Dough · 13-07-2016 2:46pm

emzolita wrote: »

That's the worst one I've seen.
"A mini-library"???... So a bookshelf then.
She sounds so condescending, the way she romantically describes life in the room.

I've never wanted to prank call someone so much in my life.

She's since edited the ad to include a picture of said mini-library (no doubt to prove how oh so cultured and learned she is :rolleyes:)

Gunslinger92 · 13-07-2016 2:46pm

Jacob Cool Nap wrote: »

There's now a lovely photo of the mini-library. And yes, it's a very small bookshelf and a chair on the landing. How can she think this would help matters?!

She's also added photos of a cheap penneys throw and towels on the bed

it's mad, the room actually looks grand, if it was actually an apartment share and not a mini-prison within the house I'm sure she'd have no trouble letting it!

Winterlong · 13-07-2016 2:48pm

inforfun wrote: »

I could start a crowdfunding thing so i can live there for a month and, due to having to read in stead of using the internet by order of Ms Landlady (must be a Ms.), report back in a month?

If you do - could you find out what a "multi-purpose fire extinguisher " is?

Does it put out fires and sweep the floor afterwards?

Aglomerado · 13-07-2016 2:48pm

Mini is right, I've more books than that in my downstairs toilet alone....

xzanti · 13-07-2016 2:50pm

Lads, there's 'drinking water' too.

Doesn't say if you have direct access to the tap.

She might fill your dish in the morning.

Cookie_Dough · 13-07-2016 2:51pm

Aglomerado wrote: »

Mini is right, I've more books than that in my downstairs toilet alone....

Yeah, a few travel guides and a pocket dictionary! I wouldn't even consider it as a mini-library...plenty of reading if you want to visit California though

LynnGrace · 13-07-2016 2:54pm

xzanti wrote: »

Lads, there's 'drinking water' too.

Doesn't say if you have direct access to the tap.

She might fill your dish in the morning.

If you were lucky, and obeyed all the rules!

Cookie_Dough · 13-07-2016 2:56pm

xzanti wrote: »

Lads, there's 'drinking water' too.

Doesn't say if you have direct access to the tap.

She might fill your dish in the morning.

I genuinely think either she is providing a trough of water every morning or else you will be drinking water from the bathroom tap :eek:

r93kaey5p2izun · 13-07-2016 3:39pm

Cookie_Dough wrote: »

I genuinely think either she is providing a trough of water every morning or else you will be drinking water from the bathroom tap :eek:

Be grand! Sure isn't there a kettle and all to boil it in first. Sheer luxury.

inforfun · 13-07-2016 3:41pm

811 views..... 0 calls/emails?

"Library" chair is the same as the one on the balcony.

I am genuinely curious with these kind of places, what that person looks like and how she really is.
This one is a Hyacinth Bucket (Boookaaay) with room for a little library

PaddyWilliams · 13-07-2016 3:44pm

inforfun wrote: »

811 views..... 0 calls/emails?

"Library" chair is the same as the one on the balcony.

I am genuinely curious with these kind of places, what that person looks like and how she really is.
This one is a Hyacinth Bucket (Boookaaay) with room for a little library

If she was ever to allow anyone to sit in her sitting room 'You'll sit in that fúcking library chair!"

endacl · 13-07-2016 3:48pm

emzolita wrote: »

That's the worst one I've seen.
"A mini-library"???... So a bookshelf then.
She sounds so condescending, the way she romantically describes life in the room.

I've never wanted to prank call someone so much in my life.

Could always drop her a mail with a link to this thread. Lots of landlords should get an email with a link to this thread....

inforfun · 13-07-2016 3:51pm

Or there is a plastic wrapped couch.
Not sure if that is/was thing here but it used to be 30/40 years ago in Holland.

inforfun · 13-07-2016 3:54pm

endacl wrote: »

Could always drop her a mail with a link to this thread. Lots of landlords should get an email with a link to this thread....

So should TD's, the entire ****ing Dáil and so on.
But then again, half of them are "landlords" so they are absolutely loving this rip off.

Winterlong · 13-07-2016 3:54pm

inforfun wrote: »

Or there is a plastic wrapped couch.
Not sure if that is/was thing here but it used to be 30/40 years ago in Holland.

It was indeed a big thing here. But the plastic covered couch was in the front 'parlor' room that no one was allowed in to. Only the priest when he came to visit.

Cookie_Dough · 13-07-2016 4:01pm

Winterlong wrote: »

It was indeed a big thing here. But the plastic covered couch was in the front 'parlor' room that no one was allowed in to. Only the priest when he came to visit.

There was also the plastic floor covering sheet things used to keep the carpet clean. This was ussually coupled with the chair covering to create a perfect storm of OTT cleanliness.

I'm surprised your woman doesn't have it noted in the ad that shoes are to be taken off before entering her palatial residence. I bet she doesn't actually clean the wares either, she burns them and them replaces them so she doesn't have to sully her hands by touching something that has been used by her renting peasant

mikhail · 13-07-2016 4:04pm

Winterlong wrote: »

If you do - could you find out what a "multi-purpose fire extinguisher " is?

Does it put out fires and sweep the floor afterwards?

There's a few common kinds of extinguisher, with different purposes and weakness.
http://firebuddy.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fire-extinguisher-colour-chart.jpg
Still bull****, mind.

13-07-2016 4:11pm

Sometimes the title of this thread would be more aptly "Tragic/Shameful Flats/Houses to rent"

ballsymchugh · 13-07-2016 4:17pm

Cookie_Dough wrote: »

Yeah, a few travel guides and a pocket dictionary! I wouldn't even consider it as a mini-library...plenty of reading if you want to visit California though

a big feckin dictionary, with words like travel books, novels, food, health, alternative, sociology and anthropology titles amongst others

jmayo · 13-07-2016 4:18pm

inforfun wrote: »

I could start a crowdfunding thing so i can live there for a month and, due to having to read in stead of using the internet by order of Ms Landlady (must be a Ms.), report back in a month?

Actually that would be a great social experiment.

You could even add some new books to library.
Say ones on emotional intelligence and not being a sado control freak.

PaddyWilliams wrote: »

I like the way photos 6 to 8 zoom in on the fireplace area. It's like they're saying 'Look at the fireplace, look at it.. LOOK AT IT!!!'

https://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/smithfield/27-blackhall-place-smithfield-dublin-1225693/

Seriously look at the amount of wood. :eek:
Last time I saw that amount of wood was in cabin in Canada.

BTW see pic 32, it looks like the shower has a wooden back :eek:

Either the owner at one time was a chippy or someone who worked for Brooks or Timber Ireland and was taking home off-cuts.

All that wood must be hiding something ?
Possibly a former tenant ?

Dyr · 13-07-2016 4:56pm

jmayo wrote: »

Seriously look at the amount of wood. :eek:
Last time I saw that amount of wood was in cabin in Canada.

BTW see pic 32, it looks like the shower has a wooden back :eek:

?

Either the curtains or the windows are made of wood

https://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/smithfield/27-blackhall-place-smithfield-dublin-1225693/#img=14

Queen-Mise · 13-07-2016 10:50pm

Bambi wrote: »

Either the curtains or the windows are made of wood

https://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/smithfield/27-blackhall-place-smithfield-dublin-1225693/#img=14

Have you noticed in the photographs there is a torch beside all the beds?

And there is two different varnish finishes in the bedrooms, if that helps I wonder.

maudgonner · 13-07-2016 10:58pm

I'm pretty sure the exterior photo is of a different house.

And that the respective owners are two little piggies.

I can barely wait for the straw house to become available.

FalconGirl · 14-07-2016 1:38am

dearg lady wrote: »

€900 for a bedsit!!
Has it come to this? :eek:

http://www.daft.ie/dublin/flats-for-rent/ballybough/ballybough-road-ballybough-dublin-1661479/?ea=1&utm_source=property_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=property_alert_email

Now that is depressing.

SuperS54 · 14-07-2016 3:04am

Queen-Mise wrote: »

Have you noticed in the photographs there is a torch beside all the beds?

And there is two different varnish finishes in the bedrooms, if that helps I wonder.

Presume the torch is there to help try to get out when the inevitable fire is blazing...Practically it's also useful to reassure yourself that you're not having a nightmare, you're actually living one when you start awake during the night.

The sealing around the basins and bath is savage, must have gotten a job lot of mastic along with the timber.

Some of these deserve to be saved before the place is sold burns down.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/supers54/Wooden%20it%20be%20nice/MGQyYjZjMmI2NDFiMTdmNTMxMGZjNThiZjhhN2RkYmJDJ4BBvY-OyA6cfDv96E6vaHR0cDovL3MzLWV1LXdlc3QtMS5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tL21lZGlhbWFzdGVyLXMzZXUvYi9iL2JiODZhN2.jpg

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc175/supers54/Wooden%20it%20be%20nice/MDZjOWExNDA5NmEzYTY1NjQyYmU4Nzc5NmFmZmZkYzMzJRUlJS7UICs2RjvbuHYwaHR0cDovL3MzLWV1LXdlc3QtMS5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tL21lZGlhbWFzdGVyLXMzZXUvMS8zLzEzMTVkYT_1.jpg

Rest are here http://s219.photobucket.com/user/supers54/Wooden%20it%20be%20nice/story

ibarelycare · 14-07-2016 7:50am

I remember that wooden house being posted on this thread ages ago. No surprise it's still on the market!

Elliott S · 14-07-2016 8:06am

dearg lady wrote: »

€900 for a bedsit!!
Has it come to this? :eek:

http://www.daft.ie/dublin/flats-for-rent/ballybough/ballybough-road-ballybough-dublin-1661479/?ea=1&utm_source=property_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=property_alert_email

That's a rough enough part of town too.

Liam McPoyle · 14-07-2016 8:14am

jmayo wrote: »

Actually that would be a great social experiment.

You could even add some new books to library.
Say ones on emotional intelligence and not being a sado control freak.

https://www.daft.ie/dublin/houses-for-sale/smithfield/27-blackhall-place-smithfield-dublin-1225693/

Seriously look at the amount of wood. :eek:
Last time I saw that amount of wood was in cabin in Canada.

BTW see pic 32, it looks like the shower has a wooden back :eek:

Either the owner at one time was a chippy or someone who worked for Brooks or Timber Ireland and was taking home off-cuts.

All that wood must be hiding something ?
Possibly a former tenant ?

That has serial killers retreat written all over it.

Elliott S · 14-07-2016 8:26am

Jacob Cool Nap wrote: »

http://www.daft.ie/dublin/apartment-share/lucan/paddocks-adamstown-lucan-dublin-891078/

€660 (was €750 yesterday) for use of a bedroom and shared bathroom, in an owner occupied duplex. Yes it includes bills, it's a nice room and she will do your washing for you but you have to make do with just a microwave, fridge, toaster and kettle with no access to kitchen or even a sink. She describes it as a bedsit but even bedsits have a kitchenette! Is it even legal?

The price would be expensive for the area for an ensuite room in a houseshare but for a shared bathroom, no use of rest of house and owner occupied so no proper rights it's scandalous, even allowing for bills included. Shameful really.

I emailed her and told her she had a nerve to ask for references for such crappy accommodation. Also told her she was supposed to provide access to a hob, oven and grill. It's all fine and well laughing at the accomm on here but sometimes I actually think something should be done about it. Even if it just gives someone pause for thought or makes them feel guilty about what they are doing.

Elliott S · 14-07-2016 8:29am

eeguy wrote: »

You'd have more fun in a prison.
Seems to be a lot of homeowners reluctantly letting out rooms.
Fair enough, times are tough for some, but it won't kill them to treat their lodgers with some dignity, rather than an inconvenience.

And what kind of person would rent out a room like that? So by putting such restrictions on the accommodation, you could end renting to a looper! Very short-sighted.

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