Should I blackmail my landlord?

You're all heartless.

I haven't read all the posts, but......

I can only presume at this stage the landlord is tied up and locked in the box room🗝️ and OP ransom demands have been issued to their remaining family members.....💲

Maybe the OP can set up a GOFUND me page and us Boardies can try to contribute to the landlord's safe passage back home.....😂

I thought cats like boxes??

I have a rental property, and it’s registered with the PRTB, and yet if I use the search function on their website, and no matter how I spell it, I can’t find it. Only way it comes up is if I log in to my “own” page.

So very possible it is registered, it’s just that you can’t find it.

A far better indicator in this instance is if the landlord insists on payment in cash.

But either way, you idea is ridiculous. You could be opening the biggest can of worms for yourself.

If I were him I'd say 'ok you got me'.

And then one day you'd come back to your stuff on the footpath. Changed locks. And a complete denial.

See you in court in 2 and a half years.

What understanding of tenant legislation?

That’s you by the way. You can’t **** a tenant out on the street without risking a massive payout following an RTB judgement. A tenant can bring a dispute to the RTB even if the tenancy isn’t registered, did you not know that?

Thread isn’t about you stupid.

But you said the LL should put the tenants stuff out on the path and change locks. That would be an illegal eviction, and a likely substantial payout by the LL.

It would be nothing like it.

What you don’t seem to understand is that a tenants rights are unaffected by whether a tenancy is registered or not. You simply cannot put a tenants stuff out on the street and change the locks.

RTB: Here is your fine, in equal part due to the fact that the tenant was illegally evicted, and because you are an idiot to think we don’t believe a tenancy existed.

i miss the ireland where cos our grandparents grew up under british rule we were all reared not to be grasses, somehow thats gone now and we are discussing blackmailing a landlord.

did the landlord do something mean to you ?

is it simpe blackmail as in hes no worse than any other landlord but you want free rent.

just do it i wanna see what happens you, by rights you should be prosecuted and then name in paper and shunned as a blackmailer.

to the moral brigade if this is about the landlord being wrong then the op knew since 2019 and has been complicit since then.

probably paying his tax and just forgot to reg with them prtb crowd.

Before you post anymore rubbish, head over to the RTB website and have a look at some of their decisions, or, just google some of the fines it has imposed on LLs.

Jesus wept, informing the RTB that a LL isn’t registered isn’t a crime. If the LL went to the Gardai about it, they would say “register your property, end of problem”. You are the clown if you think the RTB would side with a LL if he/she dumped the tenants belongings on the street and changed the locks.

The RTB is not a court where you must prove an allegation beyond a reasonable doubt, they take it on which is the more believable, and they only deal with disputes related to the RTA, not criminality. If the op claimed they were evicted illegally, the burden would be on the LL to show he/she acted legally as the RTA is clear about how an notice of termination must be served, the reasons for termination, and the notice period. The RTA states it is an offence to act on foot of an illegal eviction notice.

Do they list the times they found in the LLs favour? Yes, they list their decisions irrespective of whether they found for tenant or LL.

my landlord is having his mortgage paid by the local council via r.a.s. scheme, thank god i havn't seen him for three years and i'm so happy that my bathroom isn't in pieces/the radiators are in tip top condition, not cold and broken.....pass the rope !!!

I concur