Right to a house?

You can't answer the question. What you are talking about is nothing to do with the question. The claim is they are benefiting themselves as small landlords. You want to say how they are benefiting themselves in your view. That is irrelevant. They are not legislating or any other actions for small landlords benefit.

Do you understand the difference?

As for you reading selective materials that you agree with your views is no surprise. You don't seem to understand politics and people so are missing a HUGE part of the puzzle.

If people are being put out of business by legislation I'm going to smell a rat even if I don't know what's going on. That's just me.

Interference in business to the point where the government are effectively picking winners and losers in the "market" is no small matter.

The public demanded/is demanding laws to protect nuisance tenants to the point where small LLs have to exit the market? Not seeing it.

TBF, no one is going to take what you post seriously if you claim you didn’t know there has been a huge exodus of LLs in recent years, at a time when rents are at historic highs, it just isn’t credible considering how widely it has been reported on. Just google and you will find multiple data sources/reports that confirm what you don’t seem to know.

Ah, sorry, I see what you mean.

And you never wondered why you have heard him say it so often?

You are not listening and obsessed with your own views which most certainly are conspiracy theory based. There is a general public perception that TDs by virtue of being landlords have and do bring in legislation that favours themselves. This is simply not true and provable.

You think there are verious different benefits to TDs as an asset owning class of people that the punitive measures for landlords benefits TDs anyway. So a select bunch of landlords ALL have the same ideology and believe the same as you on the benefits as you see them. This would also suggest that the large numbers of landlords are wrong to sell up as they should be smart like the TDs and reap the benefits of asset appreciation as a form of making money.

You certainly have shown utter ignorance of government workings by not understanding how things are implemented and how legislation happens. When the rents/property values were dropping and the government increased taxes and charges while also encouraging tenants to break lease and reduced rent supplements. How is that in anyway a help to increasing asset values? It reduced the value of property further during a a period of great financial insecurity.

It was a political move to make landlords pay so the government didn't have to. Contra to your belief that politicians are onlu looking out for themselves they actually have to do things to make the public happy whether it disadvantages themselves or not. LPT is a complete fudge to avoid tenants from paying what would have been effectively a poll tax.

Politicians act on public pressure regardless of it being a good idea or not hence we got RPZ that punished landlords for not raising rent. THe public have lapped up and approved of punishment to landlords. Here you are trying to say none of that matters as they TDs still make money as landlords and rising property prices is actually their game. Do you actually know any politicians? I do and have been there when legislation was being formed and they are no way bright enough to be as organized as you think. Most went ito it to help people but you will never beleive this because you are obbsesed with the idea they are all following the same ideology and coordinated. They aren't

When the ERSI said investment was needed in construction the government started making plans but the public outcry, just like you view, the TDs were trying to enrich themselves. So they dropped the plan and the housing crisis started moving faster and getting worse. Here you are on the other side saying they did this to enrich themselves and follow and ideology. Both can't be true but people believe both especially if it fits into what they believe already. It doesn't require any facts just belief because many people just don't trust any authority and will be critical regardless.

I am part of the asset class you talk of and increasing house prices and rent along with the legislation is not helping me. It was cheaper for me to leave a place vacant than rent it out due to the rules. The simpler answer to the mess we are in is they are making mistakes by ignoring the advice and going with popular opinion instead. Like the decision to not keep pushing up retirement age because the public don't like it even though all financial advice say it needs to go up.

okay, have the value of assets, such as property, been generally rising or falling?

it is completely understandable that landlords are selling up, as the game is effectively rigged against them, and more so towards larger investors!

yes, property values fell significantly after the 08 crash, but governments and institutions have been pursuing aggressive polices, to rectify this, including, and in particular, qe programs etc , and its working!

again, i truly believe such political gains, are primarily ideologically based, i.e. not intentional for personal financial gains etc....

yes, an element of our society have indeed, and in many cases, wrongly demonised landlords, as they to are being very badly effected from these ideologically based polices, hence them running from said markets....

again, yes it all matters, that such critical social and economic providers, including small time landlords are doing so, for various different reasons, primarily the fact, the alternatives ultimately lead to rent seeking behaviors ad outcomes, i.e. everyone eventually loses

etc etc

yes, i have met some politicians, and i generally feel very sorry for them, its truly an awful job.... and the fact, they have been provided with some of the most dangerous tools, in order to try help provide us with our needs, such as neoclassical economics etc etc

once again, there is no conspiracy! we have fooled ourselves! we have created absolute bullsh1t ideologies, and now they are in a state of collapse, i.e. no conspiracy!

once again, our housing issues starting all the way back in the 90's, and has accelerated ever since, largely due to these flawed ideologies, once again, evidence in overall debt levels, once again, graph included!

one again, enrichment is coming from the overall protections in place for asset markets, but once again, ideologically based, i.e. theyre not intentionally fcuking us over!

your gaining by the default position of the protections in place for the overall value of your assets, which in turn, is doing great harm to non asset owning classes, i.e. your kids, grand kids, nieces and nephews, which in turn is damaging your overall future requirements, health care etc.....

we call all of these, the facts!

now i cant make that any simpler!

...and round and round we go......

Do you know whether people are charged more for water in a desert compared to a supermarket? And if you want to use a comparable analogy, it would be the cost of water going up if it was suddenly in short supply and cost a lot to provide.

Supply is influenced by planning rules, how many storeys high are the buildings allowed to go up, the cost of materials, band lending rules, how easy is it to get a mortgage, to build a house you need planning permission, the plans must be in line with building regulations. I think there are now fast track planning rules to allow certain buildings to be built faster. Also the no of sites avaidable to buy, also the no of workers avaidable,

They are not saying build anything anywhere

Why would a builder not simply follow the plans , drawings as submitted to the council planning debt?

China can build a town in 6 months, they have millions of workers avaidable to build anything , anywhere

Any builder in Ireland is very busy right now, it's getting hard to attract workers to ireland including builders

I made it clear they bought the water for 70 cent, they'll charge the customer dollars for it,

Like California is building its own factory to make insulin, and sell it at low cost,

As private company's keep on raising the price of the drug, its a life saving drug. Its not a luxury if you need it.

Look on dailydot.com there's a story of woman bought shed for 2k lives in it got power and aircon installed she lives in Texas where its about 98 degrees heatwave it sounds weird to me theres a few videos of the shed

The landlord doesn't collect the data, the credit agency does it and give you a rating. Trust me, the germans are more sensitive about data than just about any country in europe. And yes, there's a credit rating agency in Ireland.

BTW, I had a good tech job. I was well above the average wage, especially when you include bonuses. I just couldn't find anywhere that wasn't an absolute rip off. Can you imagine how bad it is for people who are not on a good wage. Ideally, a young couple on minimum wage should have no problem finding a 1-2 bed flat somewhere in Dublin.

I'm not asking for a lot, just that I should be able to rent a place and have some security.

Germany has a similar minimum wage to Ireland. I didn't flee to a low wage economy. It's not like I went to moldova or thailand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_minimum_wage

And housing is a basic necessity. I'm not whinging about not having an expensive car. Can you imagine if people left Ireland because food or education or healthcare was too expensive?

You're excusing the Irish property market by saying the 80 years ago some German cities were flattened?

You know the Irish property market is an anomaly. The government has never had a proper national housing strategy. We restrict people building up so we have a shortage of apartments. We spread out in a massive urban sprawl building estates which house far less people per hectare. We abandoned social housing, which every other European country focuses on. And when the government, i.e NAMA, had a large stock of housing, they sold it off to the highest bidder en masse.

The simple fact is that your average Irish citizen on an average wage should be able to afford to live in Ireland, at roughly the same standard that they can in other european countries. hell, people on minimum wages should be able to afford it. They can't. I hate SF but I can see them getting in on the next election because the parties in government have created this mess and are doing feck all to fix it.