Shared houses, landlords and housemates

pancakes rule · 14-08-2012 10:21PM

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

pancakes rule wrote: »

I recently moved into one and I'm wondering how normal is it that my landlord is here so often despite it not being owner occupied. It's not that I mind as much, but I thought it was a bit odd for him to be hanging out here as often as he does. He usually just sits in the living room and watches tv or goes on his laptop. I also know that he'll eat people's food while he's here.

Is he contributing to food, bills, and/or rent? :pac:

If not, evict him.

He could be contributing to bills. We all pay a flat rate of an extra €20 per month unless they get too high.

Fuinseog · 14-08-2012 10:30PM

pancakes rule wrote: »

I'm just wondering about people's experiences in shared houses.
I recently moved into one and I'm wondering how normal is it that my landlord is here so often despite it not being owner occupied. It's not that I mind as much, but I thought it was a bit odd for him to be hanging out here as often as he does. He usually just sits in the living room and watches tv or goes on his laptop. I also know that he'll eat people's food while he's here. Also, the one time I went down for breakfast before I left I found him sleeping on the couch.
Is this normal?
Does anyone have any stories about their landlords or housemates?

maybe he has camera installed in the bedrooms like one Galway landlord. its not normal and a bit strange. some landlords drop by once a week or month to collect the rent (and not declare it or register the property). move out as soon as you can

Royale with Cheese · 14-08-2012 10:34PM

I haven't seen my landlord since I moved in 10 months ago.

Shane-KornSpace · 14-08-2012 11:02PM

actually I have the exact opposite issue. My landlord wont do a fukcing thing. Havent seen him since I signed my lease.

Neyite · 14-08-2012 11:32PM

Shane-KornSpace wrote: »

actually I have the exact opposite issue. My landlord wont do a fukcing thing. Havent seen him since I signed my lease.

"Forget" to pay the rent. You'll fooking see him then all right.

Shane-KornSpace · 15-08-2012 01:03AM

Neyite wrote: »

Shane-KornSpace wrote: »

actually I have the exact opposite issue. My landlord wont do a fukcing thing. Havent seen him since I signed my lease.

"Forget" to pay the rent. You'll fooking see him then all right.

tried that before. remember winter last year? end of 2010 / Early 2011? My boiler broke down when all the pipes froze. I was without heating for like 3 months.
to get a bath, i had to boil pots of water on the cooker. it took 2 hours to prep a bath.
I stopped paying my rent after the first month.
They refused to fix it until I gave my rent money (which would be funded to fix the boiler.)
my attitude: no boiler? no money for you. boiler should have been fixed immediately.

got evicted in that February. appartment was only fixed up a couple of months ago and put on Daft.
rich cnut was living in Spain.

some landlords are fukcing scum.

Millicent · 15-08-2012 01:08AM

Shane-KornSpace wrote: »

tried that before. remember winter last year? end of 2010 / Early 2011? My boiler broke down when all the pipes froze. I was without heating for like 3 months.
to get a bath, i had to boil pots of water on the cooker. it took 2 hours to prep a bath.
I stopped paying my rent after the first month.
They refused to fix it until I gave my rent money (which would be funded to fix the boiler.)
my attitude: no boiler? no money for you. boiler should have been fixed immediately.

got evicted in that February. appartment was only fixed up a couple of months ago and put on Daft.
rich cnut was living in Spain.

some landlords are fukcing scum.

Threshold's advice. You're not bound to the contract if the landlord doesn't make the necessary repairs to a property after you have informed him appropriately.

There are loads of places to rent these days. Don't let your current landlord take the mick.

Shane-KornSpace · 15-08-2012 01:10AM

Millicent wrote: »

Shane-KornSpace wrote: »

tried that before. remember winter last year? end of 2010 / Early 2011? My boiler broke down when all the pipes froze. I was without heating for like 3 months.
to get a bath, i had to boil pots of water on the cooker. it took 2 hours to prep a bath.
I stopped paying my rent after the first month.
They refused to fix it until I gave my rent money (which would be funded to fix the boiler.)
my attitude: no boiler? no money for you. boiler should have been fixed immediately.

got evicted in that February. appartment was only fixed up a couple of months ago and put on Daft.
rich cnut was living in Spain.

some landlords are fukcing scum.

Threshold's advice. You're not bound to the contract if the landlord doesn't make the necessary repairs to a property after you have informed him appropriately.

There are loads of places to rent these days. Don't let your current landlord take the mick.

I was innocent. It was my first place away from home. I know now not to take shiite. so ive been hounding my current landlord lately.

Millicent · 15-08-2012 01:13AM

Shane-KornSpace wrote: »

I was innocent. It was my first place away from home. I know now not to take shiite. so ive been hounding my current landlord lately.

Send him written notice.

If repairs are necessary inform your landlord in writing.
If your property does not meet minimum standards, you can make a complaint to your local authority, which are responsible for ensuring rented property meets minimums standards.
If the landlord does not carry out the necessary repairs in a reasonable timeframe, you can serve your landlord with a Notice of Termination on the ground of failure of the landlord to meet their obligations under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004

Feck that for a game of soldiers -- there's landlords all over the country crying out for tenants.

Lone Stone · 15-08-2012 01:25AM

@OP have you and the other house mate's not asked him why the feck he is hanging out in your house ?

i would ring up the prtb or threshold and inquire about it if its making uncomfortable or the lot of you ask him to a "meeting" and tell him to get the feck out.

Formation · 15-08-2012 01:59AM

Came back after christmas one year and found the landlord coming out of one of the bedrooms with his new son in law.

im hoping he was just showing off his kingdom.

we all moved out 2 weeks later and he didnt get the place rented for about 3 months.

that mistake cost him at least E3,375.

another house the landlady never came to the place and the original tenant collect the rent and passed it on to the landlady who didnt know that the lineup had changed and the tenant had been overcharging each of us (still cheap enough) and had converted the dining room into another bedroom. We got kicked out within a week when one of the lads got the landladys number from a neighbour to get a form filled out and she copped the full story. Original tenant spent 2 days sleeping in their car and had to pay big rent in the next place.

not to mention the place i lived in with 2 teenage girls who screamed non stop, dumb as fcuk and spent 12 hours a day watching tv. Fat fcuks.

another house, lads there thought it was great craic to drink until they couldnt stand and the first to drop got a facefull from the fire extinguisher.

another place fcukers wouldnt chip in for oil, so cold that winter that my toothpaste used to freeze.

another place 3 eastern european girls wouldnt talk to anyone else (7 bed house).

another place one of the lads used to let his alcoholic mate crash on the couch 5 nights a week, fcuker liked to shout non stop.

about 2 from 9 years renting havd been good. Looking forward to being able to afford a decent place with normal people and sky sports.

FanadMan · 15-08-2012 03:49AM

Formation wrote: »

Came back after christmas one year and found the landlord coming out of one of the bedrooms with his new son in law.

im hoping he was just showing off his kingdom.

we all moved out 2 weeks later and he didnt get the place rented for about 3 months.

that mistake cost him at least E3,375.

another house the landlady never came to the place and the original tenant collect the rent and passed it on to the landlady who didnt know that the lineup had changed and the tenant had been overcharging each of us (still cheap enough) and had converted the dining room into another bedroom. We got kicked out within a week when one of the lads got the landladys number from a neighbour to get a form filled out and she copped the full story. Original tenant spent 2 days sleeping in their car and had to pay big rent in the next place.

not to mention the place i lived in with 2 teenage girls who screamed non stop, dumb as fcuk and spent 12 hours a day watching tv. Fat fcuks.

another house, lads there thought it was great craic to drink until they couldnt stand and the first to drop got a facefull from the fire extinguisher.

another place fcukers wouldnt chip in for oil, so cold that winter that my toothpaste used to freeze.

another place 3 eastern european girls wouldnt talk to anyone else (7 bed house).

another place one of the lads used to let his alcoholic mate crash on the couch 5 nights a week, fcuker liked to shout non stop.

about 2 from 9 years renting havd been good. Looking forward to being able to afford a decent place with normal people and sky sports.

Formation - with all that bad luck, did you ever think that it was you that was the center of the problem? Maybe they hated you and tried to force you out

Medusa22 · 15-08-2012 08:48AM

I'd rather live in a tiny studio and have no money than house-share and I'd never ever share in an owner-occupied place, I couldn't relax. I'm an anti-social ****er though. My landlady is great, never met her and I've just signed the lease to stay on for another year. If something is broken then she'll call someone out to fix it right away and other than that we have no contact and she's never wanted to visit. It suits me quite well.

15-08-2012 10:29AM

Rented a place from a little old lady who lived on the same road and I swear spent her entire day staring at our place. We had a big group of people over after church (back in my Christian days) and over she comes, asking us what was going on.... we were having heating oil delivered, so I open the garage door... over she comes... we were moving furniture around in the garage to make room for some more... over she comes. Drove me mental. Also had a habit of letting herself into the house to "check for post". Came over with ridiculous questions sometimes, but I think she was just bored. Liked to "Have a look round", which included looking into the bedrooms (just looking in). We tolerated her cause she was about 87 and had nothing better to do.

After I moved out it was months before I would answer a call from a private number without freaking out, six months after I moved out she was still calling with really dumb questions, like when did we last cut the grass, was it before or after Christmas? Did we cancel the bins? No she wasn't senile, she was aware we weren't living there!

Would NOT put up with what you are describing OP!

Fuinseog · 15-08-2012 10:48AM

renting anywhere is always an experience.

when I first moved to Dublin to work I rang a place in Phibsboro and the guy immediately started making accusations that I would be partying all night.

Beware of the landlord who does not register the property. the notion of getting the security deposit from the guy moving out, which means you will have to find someone for the room when moving out, is for the birds.

some owner occupied homes want someone to help pay the mortgage but do not really want someone living in the house.

I contact the landlord if there is a problem. otherwise you should not really see them.

Fuinseog · 15-08-2012 10:49AM

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

I haven't seen my landlord since I moved in 10 months ago.

thats the way it should be.

Fuinseog · 15-08-2012 10:51AM

Neyite wrote: »

"Forget" to pay the rent. You'll fooking see him then all right.

i lived in a gaff once and the two lads did not pay rent for two months before he noticed. some landlords just want the money and do not invest in the property at all.

tmc86 · 15-08-2012 10:59AM

Always had good renting experiences becasue I'd go through a letting agent. They are the point of contact between you and the landlord so there's no hassle and have never had a landlord want to come round to look at the property.

Much better than dealing direct with a landlord and to be honest not that much more expensive.

Fuinseog · 15-08-2012 11:07AM

tmc86 wrote: »

Always had good renting experiences becasue I'd go through a letting agent. They are the point of contact between you and the landlord so there's no hassle and have never had a landlord want to come round to look at the property.

Much better than dealing direct with a landlord and to be honest not that much more expensive.

not always efficient. i lived in a place once where the alarm would go off in the middle of the night. the letting agent was right beside the flat. they would say everything was normal but it would go off again maybe a month later.

I had a parking space and a parking disc but no car. the disc ran out and they never sent me the new one so when I had the visitor they got clamped.

mikemac1 · 15-08-2012 11:12AM

Rented in Galway, landlord owned several houses

He gave me a bank account to lodge money into so I did and he rang me up and fúcked me out of it for using the wrong account.

:mad:
How was that my fault?

He owned the house next door, a few sound lads signed a years lease and one month later the landlord sold the property. This was boom times so you could sell a house very quickly.
Lads told to leave and make new plans, not nice. Legal yeah but bad planning or just a nasty thing to do

I was renting monthly so I gave a months notice and because it was around mid month he said he'd only let me leave at the end of the month so 6 weeks notice. Took a lot of hassle to get him to back down

Only met him once, drove some outragously top of the range BMW, probably 60k or above, fat bastid

Duggy747 · 15-08-2012 11:18AM

Lived in a flat where the landlord lived in the house above us. You could hear their washing machine constantly going, as well as their phone ringing but that never really bothered us.

But they used to bang on our door if our TV was too loud (I'm talking normal listening volume here, far from loud) or if we were talking too loudly that "it sounded like a party". This would all happen before 9pm, mind.

When we left, they wouldn't give us each of our €200 deposit back (3 of us lived there, so they held onto €600) because 2 piss-poor cheap chairs were broken (chairs you had in an old primary school, tiny yokes) and a towel rack had fallen off the wall (was held on by blu-tack). The guys who lived there before us were electricians and re-wired all the plugs in the house to not work and used the ironing board as a skateboard, yet we were supposedly the worst they ever had.

The other 2 just accepted it but I threatened court and got my deposit back immediately :pac:

Oh, and that housemate who tried to kill me last year, I suppose......

Fuinseog · 15-08-2012 12:28PM

the issue of getting the deposit back is a difficult one. i never hand back the keys until I get the cash. I know some non national friends of mine left and were told the deposit would be paid into their accounts but that never happened. I always think to myself if I do not get the deposit back I will trash the gaff.

allibastor · 15-08-2012 01:16PM

I had a landlord once out in County Limerick. He seemed nice and all at first, he would come around and cut grass and all that.

It got a bit weird then, see it was a big house with a big garden and all, which i actually liked to cut and clean, but at the weekend as i worked till half six most nights during the week, then got home for food and kid time.

he used to come by at like half nine and start up the mower, and once i told him my daughter was asleep he said,"well if you did it when it got high i would not have to". the grass was cut every week. without fail.

He used to also store stuff in a garage at the back, as the house was the old family home. that was grand, but some mornings he would be there getting his golf clubs or something at like six in the morning, and not being quiet about it.

used to give out about the dog going into fields, even though he would not put up a fence like he had said at the start of the tenancy. also gave out about dog hairs, even though carets were old and i also owned an industrial carpet cleaner.

worst was though that one morning he had himself, son and a maintenance man walking around the house at half six morning time. my misses was just out of shower in bedroom, curtains open cause it was the country. there was the 3 of them out in the garden staring in. needless to say i told him we were off.

then tried to get a solicitor on to me, that i left no oil in tank, despite a receipt for 600 euro worth. that i never paid rent, as it went to his company account, not his private one. that i left the carpets and all filthy and covered in dog ****. now with a 3 year old in tow and all, i actually re-carpeted 2 rooms as they were terrible and very old carpets.

he then turned up to my fathers work place to make accusations that i used the very full garage to grow weed, in front of all my fathers staff.

Needless to say i had words, and his lovely son who tried to hit me was on the ass end of an ass kicking.

tmc86 · 15-08-2012 04:39PM

Fuinseog wrote: »

not always efficient. i lived in a place once where the alarm would go off in the middle of the night. the letting agent was right beside the flat. they would say everything was normal but it would go off again maybe a month later.

I had a parking space and a parking disc but no car. the disc ran out and they never sent me the new one so when I had the visitor they got clamped.

My point was within the context of the OP's situation regarding landlord's coming round to the property. I never said that you still wouldn't encounter other problems.

engrish? · 15-08-2012 04:58PM

I stopped house sharing after I found one mental housemate pissing in the milk. She said she was leaving the house a few days earlier, we were delighted. On her last night she got hammered and did a lot of damage. Dont have time for the full story so heres a few clangers:

1) Said she had cancer, she didnt. Even got me to pick her up from hospital one day from "chemo"
2) Pissed in our milk
3) Tried to drug me
4) She is a nurse in a pediatric ward, when the gardai came they found a lot of prescription medicine stolen from the hospital
5) Poisoned my dog (cant prove it but dog became violently ill after her episode)
6) Stole from our rooms
7) Pissed in one roommates bed
8) Pin burst a whole load of condoms
9) Told us she was in Riverdance - like how i put this at the end like its the worst? Its not but I just remembered it at the end.

Horrible whole story, terrible to know that she is still out there working for a hospital somewhere. In the end, when I caught her pissing in the milk I called the gardai. She got into bed, hammered and by the time they arrived she had passed out. The ambulance came and took her away, when they went through the room they found drugs which would not have been given to her - including one prescription drug not allowed in Ireland. I asked the gardai to follow up, they fobbed me off. When she came back the next day I had all of her stuff in bags in the snow in the garden.

Till the day I die, I will make sure that she doesn't work in a hospital I (or anyone close to me) is admitted to. Dangerous.

tmc86 · 16-08-2012 11:50AM

engrish? wrote: »

3) Tried to drug me
8) Pin burst a whole load of condoms

:eek: Jesus! You'd be able to get over the other stuff but this is completely insane!

allibastor · 16-08-2012 05:13PM

bit of fun she must have been when she got going.

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