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The McNamaras, €2.9M debt write-off, some deal!

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  • #122
    Portsalon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Portsalon


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »

    Except that's not true. Here's the report on the seven evictions in Cork last year;

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/analysis/when-tenants-choose-to-abuse-the-roof-over-their-heads-823960.html

    Nice bit of cherry picking, Andy! A total of 7 evictions in a Council area where over 450 tenants have rent arrears for more than one year. Wow!


  • #123
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,725 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Portsalon wrote: »
    Nice bit of cherry picking, Andy! A total of 7 evictions in a Council area where over 450 tenants have rent arrears for more than one year. Wow!
    You do know how the eviction process works, and how long it takes? And you realise that the Council is effectively the 'landlord of last resort', so if it evicts people, it then ends up dealing with additional homeless people?


    What exactly do you want to happen?


  • #124
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,676 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    You do know how the eviction process works, and how long it takes? And you realise that the Council is effectively the 'landlord of last resort', so if it evicts people, it then ends up dealing with additional homeless people?


    What exactly do you want to happen?

    Did you even read the article before quoting it. 10% of tenants create 90% of the difficulties. Half are iffy as a housing officer put it but 5% are the pay nothing brigade. To make 1000 houses reinhabitable cost 25 million or an average of 25k/house with some houses costing 100k to fix to up again. 7 evictions out of 4000 rented houses is not exactly making people homeless at a whim when it costs over 6 million per year to repair 250 houses. People abandoning houses and leaving dirty clothes and dishes after eating the breakfast on the kitchen table. Taking the plasma TV but leaving the stand. 270 rats found on one premises.

    Slava Ukrainii



  • #125
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,725 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    Did you even read the article before quoting it. 10% of tenants create 90% of the difficulties. Half are iffy as a housing officer put it but 5% are the pay nothing brigade. To make 1000 houses reinhabitable cost 25 million or an average of 25k/house with some houses costing 100k to fix to up again. 7 evictions out of 4000 rented houses is not exactly making people homeless at a whim when it costs over 6 million per year to repair 250 houses. People abandoning houses and leaving dirty clothes and dishes after eating the breakfast on the kitchen table. Taking the plasma TV but leaving the stand. 270 rats found on one premises.

    You seem to have me confused with someone else. I posted to show that the claim that council tenants never get evicted was untrue.


  • #126
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Portsalon wrote: »
    Nice bit of cherry picking, Andy! A total of 7 evictions in a Council area where over 450 tenants have rent arrears for more than one year. Wow!

    Now add 90+ million owed in unpaid rents and arrears across social housing across the country
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  • #127
    James 007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 962 ✭✭✭James 007


    Good timing for this debt write off, fair play to them, not one mention of an update to this thread, I guess coronavirus has caught everyone off guard. Who's going to pick up the tab, probably tax payers again.:eek:


  • #128
    golfball37
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,115 ✭✭✭golfball37


    Fair play to them and the judge. I’m sure this whole process hasn’t been easy on them. It gives hope to the many who are in negative equity and struggling. 3m to some could be 50k to others in future hopefully


  • #129
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,867 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    golfball37 wrote: »
    Fair play to them and the judge. I’m sure this whole process hasn’t been easy on them. It gives hope to the many who are in negative equity and struggling. 3m to some could be 50k to others in future hopefully

    You know the way Frank McNamara and his missus now don't have to pay their mortgage. Well guess what.........those of us who were prudent and do pay our mortgages now have to pay Frank and Theresa's mortgage. That ain't right.


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