Damage to property by tenant - apply for dispute resolution with RTB

Just thank your lucky stars they moved out. You will get very little satisfaction from the RTB, but do try anyway and let people know what you think of the RTB.

Dont give him back his deposit anyway. If he asks for it again give him the number of the RTB.

The very least you'll need that for is a skip to dump his rubbish that he left and his dishwasher and to pay someone to remove it. Imagine not washing curtains for 11 years :) And not giving the tiles he was p!ssing on a clean every now and again.

Some people are just dirty and iots sad that that caould ever been seen as normal wear and tear, but filthy people dont see filthy things.

All these things 99% of normal people would clean in their own homes.

Doesn’t sound to out if the ordinary for 11 years.

unless you have a receipt you can’t hold back the deposit

The white goods / mattress etc are depreciated over 8 years so have no residue value. So just replace them and reduce you’re tax bill.

buy a cheap mattress , encourage the next tenant to buy their own.

get the carpet cleaned/ shampooed or replaced. It’s old enough.

Increase the rent for tue next tenant. You had no reason to be charging less than HAP. You were only saving the council money.

you are a business owner. Not a charity. Increase the rent 2% each year.

if it’s a HAP tenant 200 euro over hap limit is a fair prices

a good steam and regrout would have been the best way to deal with the kitchen

Never lost a dispute when retaining a deposit.

But in your case the time, effort and stress for 400 isn't worth it. I think it's trivial amount to waste your time with. You got 11 easy years. This must be 0.01% of the rent paid on that time.

Know a good thing when you see it.

You can't use the deposit to pay for paint when repainting is a standard part of dealing with wear and tear.

What receipts have you to keep the €400 against? You are going to get yourself in trouble

you should have spent less time on spreadsheets and more time on rent increase.

€68 a month, are you excluding the 11 years of mortgage that has been paid leaving you with an asset?

have you got a quote from a handyman to reskim the small section of fireplace.

Sounds like you are coming up with any excuse to hold onto the 400 euro.

Some people are not as clean as others, as gross as it sounds nothing you have said would indicate to me that your tenant, who paid you for many years, acted maliciously against your property.

The chipped plaster and tile is absolutely wear and tear especially considering the age and condition of the property you own.

Id argue you could be the one at fault for not having the house deep cleaned yearly or something considering the state of it. The reality is those houses used to have holes in them or thatched roofs or a door that was left open always - they are not fit for modern living. Given the extent of what you are reporting in regards to mildew and mold it sounds like a place that would need a dehumidifier running 24/7. The velux wood rotting is a pretty good indicator of that to me - what did you expect the tenant to do, mop it up every morning?

At any stage did you clean and paint that entire property during the 11 year tenancy?

I wont go on -

Is 400 quid even worth your time to argue over?

Hi Molly

I'm a former Tennant who had a great Landlord whom I still talk to and do DIY jobs for at my old address. I hate the PRTB for this reason.

I recommend a girl ( call her Ruby ) to move in to upstairs flat. She was their a year or so and went missing for weeks as she was sleeping with a man in Rathmines who hid his ex in the wardrobe and jumped out window.

If you Google this you will understand why Ruby went missing for weeks. In the mean time my Landlord left messages and hand written notes in the door etc etc and stop receiving rent during this app 2 month period.

Eventually he gave up waiting went in to the flat.... it was Filthy how Ruby could live there was a ruddle in itself because Kim and aggie would of struggled to clean it ( I spent a week cleaning it )

The landlord takes all Ruby's belongings and puts them in storage facility paying for this also.

So Ruby shows up after 3 months gone and collects a desk and chest of drawers from flat. She hands the landlord rent for 2 months that DSW paid to her bank but its not 2 full months rent he receives as her contribution is missing.

He drives her to storage facilty and pays for the 3 weeks of storage out of his money for her and drops her to place she chooses 30 mind away.

A few weeks later the PRTB send the Landlord a letter and she takes a case against him for eviction of her.

Now because he took the 8 weeks payment that DSP paid to her bank for him she won a wrongful eviction and was awarded 5000 for emotional damages and cost etc

So loss of rent

Loss of storage fees

Having to pay for cleaning and painting of room

And 5000 down

Now if the PRTB were fair in their JUDGEMENT then I'd say keep.the money...

So don't cause 400 will end up costing you 4000 cause they are all for tenants because they get their money from the rich..... I mean if the Landlord wins what's a Tennant gonna pay and you have to find their new address otherwise these bills can't be sent to them

But they can find your house so your a better and richer cash cow for them

Just give them it back its 11 years you got rent

They could say 400 11 years ago is worth 500 today lol

Oh and the girls name what are Ruby types of what

She had affair with a 👾 and was present whilst a woman in a wardrobe

Rested in Pain

Ruby was lucky to have a sister in store St Garda and never faced criminal charges

Very lucky woman

Lucky in lots of ways.

11 years? Give the tenant the deposit FFS.

To be honest, you should have been doing inspections. All of the above could have been raised in that time.

That's the business. The Govt want the LL to carry the risk and cost of such tenants. Rather than the Govt having to pay it.