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Before Renting is it law that you have a BER cert

  • 23-06-2009 03:25PM
    #1
    Jellab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭


    HI
    I am searching for a new rental and I would say 95% of the properties I have looked at on Daft have not listed that they have a BER Rating, when I mail them and ask them what is the BER Rating they don't bother mailing me back.
    My question is:
    Is it now against the law for a landlord to rent a property out with out this?

    Thanks
    :rolleyes:


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  • #2
    Jimbo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭Jimbo


    A BER is required when a property is being offered for rent.
    Obviously this is so prospective tenants can compare properties.

    It seems this isn't being complied with though


  • #3
    Jellab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭Jellab


    Is nobody looking into this like a regulator or someone. whats the point it having been rolled out then nobody has to comply. I know it is great for buyers and you could demand to have it if you were buying a house.

    thanks


  • #4
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 44,927 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Jellab wrote: »
    HI
    I am searching for a new rental and I would say 95% of the properties I have looked at on Daft have not listed that they have a BER Rating, when I mail them and ask them what is the BER Rating they don't bother mailing me back.
    My question is:
    Is it now against the law for a landlord to rent a property out with out this?

    Thanks
    :rolleyes:

    technically yes.....

    the law states that a the person " [FONT=&quot]shall produce a printed copy of the BER certificate and advisory report in relation to the building to any person expressing an interest in purchasing or taking a letting of the building".......[/FONT]


  • #5
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 44,927 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Jellab wrote: »
    Is nobody looking into this like a regulator or someone. whats the point it having been rolled out then nobody has to comply. I know it is great for buyers and you could demand to have it if you were buying a house.

    thanks

    prospectus purchasers should be demanding it.... the purchaser holds the power....

    The government, in their eternal wisdom, decided to put the remit for enforcing the BER requirement in the hands of a practically non-existent building control section of local authorities..... :rolleyes:


  • #6
    bertie1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 509 ✭✭✭bertie1


    Would you not find a house in area you really wanted to rent in first? . If you are seriously going to rent it then the landlord will propably get a BER cert. But right now there are so many idle properties out there with mortgages to be paid on them that the cost a BER cert is the last thing on a prospective landlords mind, he is finding it difficult enough to make his payments. A landlord can get a BER cert in a couple of days. If I were the landlord your references , where you are working and the state of your employment would be top priority as I would need a tenant who could actually pay the rent on time as agreed in the lease & the condition of the house you are about to rent would be my top priority ( not a BER cert ) that is only going to tell me what I already know.


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  • #7
    dunie001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭dunie001


    where you are working and the state of your employment would be top priority as I would need a tenant who could actually pay the rent on time as agreed in the lease & the condition of the house you are about to rent would be my top priority ( not a BER cert ) that is only going to tell me what I already know.

    The BER Cert is for the benefit of the prospective tenant looking for somewhere to rent NOT the landord...unless the house has an exceptional BER Rating which is rarely ever the case!!!

    However if a landord put insulation in the attic, installed a new boiler, got double glazed windows....then you can be sure that the landlord would want to show off that his house is better than Joe Soap's next door...by having a BER Cert.


  • #8
    Jellab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭Jellab


    Thank you all for your comments. I did get a lovely house to rent with a great BER rating and for a few hundred less that what the landlord was getting last year.
    In my search for a new house, I found that it is a renters market not the landlords market anymore. A few landlords have over charged people for their rentals for a few years now and have highly benefited from it.
    The majority of landlords have been renting out squalors and getting away with it for too long.
    So it is now only fair that the BER rating has come into effect weather they can afford to pay for it or not and with a bit of luck there will be some regulation as to what can and can not be rented in the future.

    :rolleyes:


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