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How realistic is it to find a studio apartment for around 1000 Euros per month?

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    #32
    mrslancaster
    Registered Users Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mrslancaster


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121832718#Comment_121832718

    If it had its own separate entrance then it's classified as a dwelling and a full tenancy. The rent-a-room is for shared accommodation where the owner/landlord also lives and is a licensee situation outside the rtb

    But that could soon change if SF have their way.

    I've mentioned it on another thread but RaR, licensees or lodgers/digs (room & board) will also become difficult to find if the SF bill before the dail is passed. The bill wants to include licensees under the remit of the RTB so anyone taking in a licensee would have to comply with rules and regulations set out in the Residential tenancies act.

    SF have added special notice periods, lease terms, rules about dietary requirements, locks on doors, registration with rtb etc.

    Can't see how any owner would want all that red tape for letting a room in their own home.



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    #33
    Claw Hammer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,160 ✭✭✭Claw Hammer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121852035#Comment_121852035

    It is possible this accommodation is both under the rent a room scheme (which is a matter of taxation) and a tenancy which involves rights under the Tenancies Act administered by the RTB. Too many people fall into the trap of thinking that if a letting is in one it is automatically outside the other. In the situation described it is a dwelling unless the owner retains access by way of a communicating door. The owner can advise the tenant when they go in that they can be given a shorter period of notice of termination on account of the building being owner occupied.



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    #34
    SharkMX
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121852035#Comment_121852035

    That one is gone now anyway (another couple we know are moving into it next month after they heard it had come available), but it is definitely the rent a room scheme. They have all their bills paid for (heat, electricity, hot water, internet). Their "front" door is a side door. There was a door into the main house that was always closed. They were told when they moved in that it was the rent a room scheme and that they had everything they needed in their apartment so wouldnt ever need to come into the main house and was that a problem for them.

    I dont see the rent a room scheme ever being messed with. It would cause so many evictions that it would make the current housing crisis look tame. Nobody doing the rent a room scheme wants anyone they cant remove living with them. Im pretty sure that if there was even a hint of a change to the rent a room scheme you would see mass protective notices given before it was anywhere near a reality and then if it came in they would be all out on the street within days. Nobody is going to let themselves get caught like normal landlords did again (which had no small part to play in creating the situation we have today with homelessness and rocketing rents and house prices).



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