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Tenant keeping rent allowance.

  • 29-05-2013 8:23pm
    #1
    Big Davey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 778 ✭✭✭


    My friend is living abroad and rented her house to a couple on social welfare they receive rent allowance. They are constantly leaving the rent short and very late there are arrears of about one months rent and then the next month is very late etc what is her best option ? My sister said if she reports them to social welfare they will immediately cut their money and then it gets really messy. How should she deal with it the money could be going on gambling, drink, drugs or just over spending who knows but the fact is the social welfare give them the money to pass on to her and they are not doing it.
    Advice please and I will pass it on.


Comments

  • #2
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    It's got nothing to do with her what they're spending it on, the only thing that concerns her is that she isn't getting paid. The last thing she wants to do is ask them what they're spending it on since it's "her" money.

    Since she's abroad there's really not a lot of she can do other than ring them and see if there's a problem arising. For all your cousin knows it could be the Dept that is the delay, not them.

    Ringing the Dept on them is the last resort, because your sister is right, it could get messy. The law is heavily weighted in favour of the tenant in Ireland and she could go from a situation of getting paid late to not getting paid at all and undergoing a long eviction process. Softly softly is the best approach really.


  • #3
    The Gride
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭The Gride


    Sulla Felix wrote: »
    It's got nothing to do with her what they're spending it on, the only thing that concerns her is that she isn't getting paid. The last thing she wants to do is ask them what they're spending it on since it's "her" money.

    Since she's abroad there's really not a lot of she can do other than ring them and see if there's a problem arising. For all your cousin knows it could be the Dept that is the delay, not them.to them.

    Ringing the Dept on them is the last resort, because your sister is right, it could get messy. The law is heavily weighted in favour of the tenant in Ireland and she could go from a situation of getting paid late to not getting paid at all and undergoing a long eviction process. Softly softly is the best approach really.

    Good advice. My brother had a house rented to a girl on rent allowance. The rent was slow so he got on to them. To make a long story short, he ended up getting nothing from them and it took him over 3 months to get them out using a solicitor. The house was also wrecked in to the bargain.


  • #4
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #5
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    A thread here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=38 might get better results.

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