Tenants refusing to leave even though we are homeless..HELP

I’d be tempted to arrive with a bunch of workmen and the loudest tools you can find and start up work on the house again, with no payment received for the ‘bedroom’ they were ‘using’ you assumed your ‘friends’ had moved on.

Even with high rents droves still choose to leave. Why I wonder.

I even know an auctioneer who owns a property that is empty years. He has been asked many times to rent it and the reply is always the same. Not worth the trouble mate with over half the rent heading for Dublin and it only taking one bad tenant to ruin me financially so it can sit there for the kids.

Look at the UK. A couple of months and a bad tenant is escorted out willingly or not

You sound like a bit of a soft touch and a poor judge of Character. You've too many mistakes made at this stage. Your only option is the to go to the rtb and start the whole process. Bad news is it could take 6 months+ to remove them and worse case even after the rtb rule in your favour you may still have to go to the District court to get an enforcement.

On the positive side, the whole process is quicker now that the last stage is via the District court rather than the Circuit court which was more expensive and a lot slower. Also if you are in financial trouble or struggling make sure to let the rtb know and apply for legal aid from them if needed.

One other thing, do they pay the Utilities, are the Bills in there name or was it an agreement that they would just sort out the bill but your name remained on the it?

Tenants need better protection in Ireland. You are forcing them out of their home in the middle of a housing crisis just to suit your situation, thats not fair, where are they going to go? basically you dont care and are just looking out for yourself, thinking of places like germany where people rent for years, or even a lifetime. Thats the rights tenants need, now you have backed them into a corner so they wont pay rent, wont leave because basically they dont have a choice in the current market. 40k - 50k people just entered Ireland over the last few months, so competition is stiff for new places

Ffs...if the op is accurate they knew it was a temporary arrangement, she gave them notice, they aren't paying what they said they would, they arent taking care of the place etc......its her house........its warped that anyone could side with the "renters" here despite the many errors the OP made.......

It's the landlords need protection from total one sided bullshittery and the people of Ireland need protection from disastrous govt meddling in the property market and installation of quangos interfering with property rights/natural justice etc

I would remind them that they need to pay the rent and leave when the notice period is up. If not, you will bring a case to the RTB and will not give them a reference for a new rental.

I would tell them that they need to think about the position they will be in when this ends, no place to live, no reference and a visible overholding case that any future landlord can see. The market is very difficult for the best of tenants, impossible for a family with that baggage.

The decisions the tenant is making here are potentially going to really hurt them in the long run.

when I’m renting out a unit it’s the first port of call. Just put in the names and see what comes up!!!

it’s not all on the landlord!!!

The decisions bad tenants make have a knock on effect for other tenants.

Your just prolonging the inevitable and making it more difficult for yourself to get another property to live in.

you present yourself homeless to the local council, they put you up in a hotel. You get a glowing reference from your landlord and you can keep looking for another place to rent.

Or go the overholding route and after 12 18 months you have to go to the council but with the worst reputation from a landlords point of view and far less of a chance of renting again.

In my experience most people just leave and get through the process asap.

the op needs to make sure they know what they are actually doing!

Telling the truth is not blackmail.

The OP is not trying extortion, they just want their property back.

They may have nowhere to go but they could at least pay the rent!

Don't make me sick. Turning your nose up at 18k revenue a year? Rent seeking on an asset. Complaining that you're only making nearly 10k profit, in your hand, while you continue to own the asset. My heart bleeds.

"heading for Dublin" - bigotry. Not reasonable to deal with unreasonable people.

Yes, all you landlords are quite willing to sit on an asset worth hundreds of thousands, without rent-seeking, and yet people are supposed to have sympathy for your position. I'm getting queasier by the minute reading these.