Rent Issue with Landlady - Is this fair?

GizAGoOfYerGee · 2011-02-06 00:50:41

I have been living in the smallest room in this apartment for 3 years, and have never missed payment. Last month, one of my flatmates left. The room was €350 pm, and mine is €300. I couldn't afford the extra €50 for that room, so I decided to stay in my shoebox, so the room lay vacant for a few weeks. However, last week, a…

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#32 06-02-2011 03:06AM

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I would be fuming, definitely have words with her.

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#33 06-02-2011 03:11AM

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--LOS-- wrote: »

I would be fuming, definitely have words with her.

With sexy results.

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#34 06-02-2011 03:11AM

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GizAGoOfYerGee wrote: »

Reading your recent posts - who has the sob story now! Sleep well, alone.

It's how I sleep best (and I've never sobbed in my life).

There's all day to do everything else.

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#35 06-02-2011 03:15AM

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GizAGoOfYerGee wrote: »

Thanks for the reply, though your life situation sounds to be much different to mine.

I left my parents when I was 18 and have been traveling and living in rented accomodation now for 10 years.

I had to leave Ireland in 2007 because the companies I worked for closed down.

I continue to support myself with freelance work, though some months I have absolutely no income at all, and have to live off savings.

No banks would give me a mortgage here!

Cheap accomodation has worked great for me so far. Though, I would much prefer to pay €290 for a large room than €300 for a fúcking boxroom. :mad:

Fair enough, and certainly not a dig at you. Like I said, some people have no other option. Which makes it an amazing option.

But for a lot of folk: just move back home, and learn to live with the folks. Being able to coexist with your parents doesn't make you a mammy's boy. It really doesn't. Sometimes it's just better.

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#36 06-02-2011 03:18AM

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MistyCheese wrote: »

A summary.

I was hoping for a "Cool story bro" but your world-weary, razor sharp wit just blew me away. AWE SOME!!!

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#37 06-02-2011 03:20AM

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Tom Slick wrote: »

Me?!

, sorry no not you! I was referring to gizagoofyergee. I can't imagine a person with that username having problems with a landlady! (unless it were problems of the pregnant variety)

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#38 06-02-2011 03:22AM

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Yeah - just tell her to drop the price or you move. You're getting screwed royally.

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#39 06-02-2011 03:41AM

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If that happened to me I would just move out. Move out! shes a cnut.

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#40 06-02-2011 03:43AM

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Check your lease contract. Depending on what you've signed, you normally would be entitled to negotiate your terms with your landlady.

If not, gtfo

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#41 06-02-2011 05:54AM

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davyjose wrote: »

Just move back home, and learn to live with the folks. Being able to coexist with your parents doesn't make you a mammy's boy. It really doesn't. Sometimes it's just better.

If only I had the option to be "a mammy's boy". I would love to live back at home, but I cannot.

I was forced out of Ireland 3 years ago and have already started my own family abroad.

I will never return to Ireland again. I don't want my kids to know that their father is Irish. I have a new passport in this country and never renewed my Irish one.

Technically, I am no longer Irish. But I like chatting to old friends and people on here.

My advice: Leave Ireland and never return.

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#42 06-02-2011 06:06AM

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OP, offer her a figure per month (maybe 220? don't know) but as a matter of principle, you can't stay there any more. If she refuses, tell her to fúck herself.

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#43 06-02-2011 06:31AM

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Blast her with piss.

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#44 06-02-2011 06:40AM

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i was gonna point you in the direction of billy who has a nice enough place in rathgar for renting, but it's feck all use to you if you're swanning about on the iberian peninsula.

how are you raising a family in a box room??

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#45 06-02-2011 07:01AM

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It's best that you call her bluff, she has the right to keep the rent at that rate of 300Euro but still its pretty ****ty on you like.

There is plenty on the market at the moment also so maybe a chance of place might be nice .

Best of luck anyway mate.

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#46 06-02-2011 08:09AM

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Grando advice, lads. Thank a mil.

ballsymchugh wrote: »

i was gonna point you in the direction of billy who has a nice enough place in rathgar for renting, but it's feck all use to you if you're swanning about on the iberian peninsula.

how are you raising a family in a box room??

Was that your man who was floggin' an indoor shed on Daft?

I am living in a boxroom with a desk (office), but my lady and baby are in a small apartment across town. I earn enough to support them both, and I go across town to see them every night.

I'm just not happy that I have to pay €60 more for a small room when I could have a much larger room and perhaps have my baby and girl over.

Urgh, I'm so tired of working. Life goes on.

Edit: Actually, I am seriously depressed. I'm off to get some foods from the market. It's sunny, anyway Move on, go on, etc.

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#47 06-02-2011 10:03AM

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GizAGoOfYerGee wrote: »

Grando advice, lads. Thank a mil.

Was that your man who was floggin' an indoor shed on Daft?

I am living in a boxroom with a desk (office), but my lady and baby are in a small apartment across town. I earn enough to support them both, and I go across town to see them every night.

I'm just not happy that I have to pay €60 more for a small room when I could have a much larger room and perhaps have my baby and girl over.

Urgh, I'm so tired of working. Life goes on.

Edit: Actually, I am seriously depressed. I'm off to get some foods from the market. It's sunny, anyway Move on, go on, etc.

Found your solution!
Move out of boxroom, and into apartment with your lady and baby.
Use the extra 300 a month to either rent somewhere even nice for the 3 of you, or on cocaine and hookers.

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#48 06-02-2011 10:51AM

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Do you have a lease? If so, I believe you are obliged to pay the rent stated for the duration of the lease. However, you can re-negotiate the rent price on a new lease.

Things are tight or everyone these days, including landlords.

Hope you're able to get a fairer deal and stay.

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#49 06-02-2011 11:00AM

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So you're renouncing Irish citizenship and still want Irish advice??

How about... suck my balls.

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#50 06-02-2011 12:02PM

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Boo F*******G Hoo , jeez would ya stop you are making me violent listening to yer winging , " i dont like my land lady " " i dont like ireland " instead of getting onto AH with your shemale problems , there are web sites for the like of you no ball winging t******r , think its called gaydar , you come onto a irish web site claming your going to hide the fact that your childrens farther is irish and you never want to come back 2 ireland we why dont ya keep yer bitch winging for a web site in the **** hole of a country you are in , no wonder the mother and child wont live with ya , the hormone replacement must be going well for ya

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#51 06-02-2011 12:28PM

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GizAGoOfYerGee wrote: »

I have been living in the smallest room in this apartment for 3 years, and have never missed payment.

Last month, one of my flatmates left. The room was €350 pm, and mine is €300. I couldn't afford the extra €50 for that room, so I decided to stay in my shoebox, so the room lay vacant for a few weeks.

However, last week, a new tenant arrived, and I found out that he is paying only €290 pm for that larger room. :mad: WTF - that's €60 less!

I would have moved into that room had the landlady told me the rent was €290. Yet, still I have to pay €300 for a room half the size.

I asked her about it and she said she had to reduce prices to attract new tenants, but would not reduce my rent. :mad:

I have been here for 3 years and never missed rent. I've seen many tenants come and go and I look after the place and always keep it clean.

Am I being irrational to ask for my rent to be reduced?? I'd look for another flat right away, but this apartment has been my home for so long now and I don't want to leave. FFS.

What a load of bollox you are!! are you not in spain happy with Wife and 2 kids?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056171042

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#52 06-02-2011 04:12PM

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hsi wrote: »

What a load of bollox you are!! are you not in spain happy with Wife and 2 kids?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056171042

Not reading full thread fail...

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#53 06-02-2011 05:05PM

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GizAGoOfYerGee wrote: »

I asked her about it and she said she had to reduce prices to attract new tenants, but would not reduce my rent. :mad:

This might work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg3qj5I-28A

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#54 06-02-2011 05:17PM

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Definitely start looking elsewhere. Given the other person moved in so recently I'm assuming it's not a situation where ye're so close that ye want to stay in the same place. You're now in a situation where you have to get to know a new person anyway so you might as well do it at a fairer price.

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