Notice of Sale from LL after only having moved in (and spending money and time on improvements!)

Child care, Covid and all the paper work the department of education and HSE put on managers of child care places, she's probably selling. Is she coming up on retirement?

She hasn't given you proper notice as per the RTB rules so you can say nothing and push back when the time comes but it's **** thing to do

No not money just that she hasn't give you any notice that anything is happening until it's done by the book. It's as if she never sent a text message.

Reminds me of my cousin. I was in her house one day and she was moaning about the council not fixing the mould in her bathroom.

She brought me into the bathroom to show me how bad it was. I got a cloth with bleach and I wiped it off in about 30 seconds. I told her that our house gets mouly in the corners of the bedrooms and the bathrooms too and as soon as we see it we wipe it off with bleach or mould remover and dont leave it there. I said its normal in houses in Ireland. Just wipe it every few weeks, job done. Then she said well its the councils house, they cant be expecting me to clean off their mould.

yep its timed that way. What is needed is renters on the street demanding that LL have more protections. It has come to the stage we need the turkeys voting for christmas... which wont happen

You have to be served with a notice of termination accompanied by a statutory declaration. You can raise a dispute about technical defects in the notice or declaration and the tenancy continues during the dispute. You say the lease started but were any of the occupants there before that?

I was just looking this morning at a list of all the legislation changes in the last few years. Honestly I dont see how a landlord could keep up with them. Each one making their job harder and harder. And with promises of more to come soon too. Im surprised there are any landlords left at all at this point.

Debates this week about the new rental legislation:

* disability renovations and increased BER during any retrofitting works. These works could not be classified as substantial change.

* rent for new tenancies should set rent with the formula RB_room x (1 + 0.02) and the RB_room would be the median rent for the County Council area where the dwelling is located, for a dwelling with the number of bedrooms, according to the most recent RTB quarterly rent price data.

* that the minister will get an annual report about landlords where rent increases were deemed to be an offence, all fines issued to landlords for those, and any other measures to pursue landlords guilty of incorrect rent increases.

* termination notices under S34 should be subject to a variable notice period determined by the duration of the tenancy. For a tenancy over 2 years, any additional years would increase the relevant notice period by 30 days to be known as a Long Tenure notice period.

It looks like landlords could face even longer notice periods and extra costs with little ability to recoup those costs - that seems to be what's scaring them all into selling up.

Under this plan there would be no incentive for landlords to improve the quality of their properties, either by increasing the BER or decorating or doing anything else. In fact there’d be no reason to let high quality properties at all if the rent can’t reflect the quality.

I let out a 2 bed apartment and while it is charming (used to be my home so I’m biased!), it’s also old and very small for a 2 bed. Why should it make the same rental income as a big new 2-bed in the area that has a high BER, walk-in wardrobe, en suites etc.? It doesn’t make any sense. Do the politicians really not know that supply is the main issue? Or do they not believe this will impact supply?

I have a friend who a couple of years ago moved from a 1 bed apartment to another across the road because his landlord was selling.

The one he was moving from was fantastic. It even had air con. It was 65sq m and had a great from the large balcony.

The living room was 14ft x 16ft, so not a bad size at all. The kitchen was a nice size and was modern with full size fridge freezer, induction hob and an oven.

The apartment he moved into was tiny. I doubt it was even 40sqm. The living room fitted a couch length ways and you were sitting on top of the tv. It was no more than 10ft x 10ft. No balcony and a view of the main road outside from the bedroom and living room. The kitchen wouldnt have fitted 1 person standing sideways and the fridge was an undercounter one with a tiny icebox.

And here is the kicker.

The rent for the old nice apartment that he moved out of was €970pm.

The rent for the new dingy place was €1350pm.

And thats why his landlord was selling up and my friend had to move out. He did offer him an extra €400pm month to stay, but his landlord said no, that if he did that he would probably end up with a fine for far more than that down the line. Said he was just tired of the whole thing and wanted out so was selling.

Looks to me that that is where its headed.

Investment funds are just going to buy up all the rentals that come on the market. All the good ones anyway.

They will then find a way to increase the rent.

There will come a point soon enough where the REITs start to get taxed properly. They will need to increase their rents again to recoup this tax. Vicious circle all began with rent control. And there are so many examples of it from around the world, that the government have always known where it would lead. Never in history has rent control not succeeded in fcuking up the rental market for everyone. And yet they went ahead and did it. And keep doing it. I dont know which is worse.