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Squatting a house in a ghost estate?

  • 31-10-2012 08:44PM
    #1
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭


    Squatting a house in a ghost estate.
    Anyone up for it?
    Reading about that man who was awarded the NAMA house has given me some ideas..


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  • #2
    TheBody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,674 ✭✭✭TheBody


    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    Squatting a house in a ghost estate.
    Anyone up for it?
    Reading about that man who was awarded the NAMA house has given me some ideas..

    Do I get the master bedroom?


  • #3
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    If you're going squatting in your dress without knickers you'll get a helluva draft....probably catch a uti....


  • #4
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    wexie wrote: »
    If you're going squatting in your dress without knickers you'll get a helluva draft....probably catch a uti....

    Never had one, but take your word for it though (I am sure you have had many).


  • #5
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    TheBody wrote: »
    Do I get the master bedroom?

    Why not? May as well squat a large house and live in some style.
    I was thinking one of the Celtic Tiger mansions would do, say 7 bedrooms.


  • #6
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    Never had one, but take your word for it though (I am sure you have had many).

    Actually never had any, mostly because I'm not a crossdressing troll...


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  • #7
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    wexie wrote: »
    Actually never had any, mostly because I'm not a crossdressing troll...

    OK I might be a troll sometimes, but a cross dresser? No.


  • #8
    UCDVet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    I know most people will be joking - but I've given it some serious consideration.

    I don't see much of a downside, provided your willing to live that sort of lifestyle. I feel like the worst that will happen is I'm told to leave. Big deal. And there is a good chance I'd save lots on rent.


  • #9
    Max Power
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    How do you plan to cook food and heat the house?


  • #10
    TheBody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,674 ✭✭✭TheBody


    FionnMcCool87 wrote: »
    How do you plan to cook food and heat the house?

    You could always just burn down the neighbouring ghost houses for fuel.


  • #11
    Tom_Cruise
    Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Tom_Cruise


    Ask one of the developers if you can live in the house and in return you will protect the estate from thieves and bandits.


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  • #12
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    I would be scary tonight


  • #13
    crackcrack30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭crackcrack30


    Probably easier ways of getting a free gaff in ireland.....;)

    Or buy it on the cheap and pretend to the neighbours that you are squatting there, just to annoy them (further):cool:


  • #14
    Logical_Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Logical_Bear


    wexie wrote: »
    If you're going squatting in your dress without knickers you'll get a helluva draft....probably catch a uti....
    or at best chapped lips


  • #15
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Damn these contacts,I thought I read Scatting in a Ghost Estate,poo,poo,poo,poo.


  • #16
    Remmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    Feck op, If you're fit to squat a house this belongs in the powerlifting forum. squatting in a house on the other hand....


  • #17
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    The idea is to find some deserted Georgian pile that the owner has forgotten about. Not some half finished fire trap in the middle of Leitrim.


  • #18
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    anncoates wrote: »
    The idea is to find some deserted Georgian pile that the owner has forgotten about. Not some half finished fire trap in the middle of Leitrim.

    Most of those are stripped of the lead of the roof and have no fireplaces, so bring an umbrella and a portable heater.


  • #19
    franktheplank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭franktheplank


    They should open the NAMA houses to anyone that want's one and scrap rent allowance, sounds fine to any reasonable person but what about all those poor property investors getting the taxpayer to pay there 2nd mortgages through RA.


  • #20
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    What if you get devoured by the Ghost??


  • #21
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    FionnMcCool87 wrote: »
    How do you plan to cook food and heat the house?

    An electric oven.
    An electric oil heater.


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  • #22
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    UCDVet wrote: »
    I know most people will be joking - but I've given it some serious consideration.

    I don't see much of a downside, provided your willing to live that sort of lifestyle. I feel like the worst that will happen is I'm told to leave. Big deal. And there is a good chance I'd save lots on rent.

    Agreed.
    Say the Guards come to visit. If there is no damage to the property, one cannot be charged with criminal damage or burglary.
    One can only be charged with trespass. In order to be lawfully evicted, a District Judge would have to hear the case in court then grant an eviction order.
    One can claim adverse possession in the meantime, and await the months before the court case; living rent free.
    Worse case scenario you save the rent for the months you get away with it prior to eviction.
    Best case scenario the Judge rules in your favour; as in the case of the NAMA property squatter.


  • #23
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    Remmy wrote: »
    Feck op, If you're fit to squat a house this belongs in the powerlifting forum. squatting in a house on the other hand....

    I would have termed it adverse possession in my original post, but I thought people like you would have to Google that to know what it means.


  • #24
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    anncoates wrote: »
    The idea is to find some deserted Georgian pile that the owner has forgotten about. Not some half finished fire trap in the middle of Leitrim.

    I fancied Abbeville (Charles Haughey's old mansion), but Camelot Properties are looking after it with Property Guardians though.


  • #25
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    franktheplank wrote: »
    They should open the NAMA houses to anyone that want's one and scrap rent allowance, sounds fine to any reasonable person but what about all those poor property investors getting the taxpayer to pay there 2nd mortgages through RA.

    Closer to reality than you might think.
    Many of the NAMA owned ghost estates are going to be handed over to local County Council's for social housing. The unfinished ones will be bulldozed eventually.


  • #26
    Remmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    I would have termed it adverse possession in my original post, but I thought people like you would have to Google that to know what it means.

    Yep I would have no clue what those big words mean. Thanks for dumbing it down for me.:)


  • #27
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    I have to admit that I am surprised this thread has lasted this long.


  • #28
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    Rented Mule wrote: »
    I have to admit that I am surprised this thread has lasted this long.

    Great contribution.


  • #29
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    How about squatting one of the vacant Castlemoyne houses, but without the 2500 Euro per month rent?
    http://www.daft.ie/searchrental.daft?id=1252072
    There are still around 20 vacant in that ghost estate.


  • #30
    franktheplank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭franktheplank


    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    Closer to reality than you might think.
    Many of the NAMA owned ghost estates are going to be handed over to local County Council's for social housing. The unfinished ones will be bulldozed eventually.

    I suspect there'll be a catch but here's hoping! And if it's gonna be happening there hurry the **** up RA must be costing the country a fortune to the benefit only of property investors and also keeping a false floor in the rental market.

    I like the thread, i've often wondered what would happen if you just start squatting in one of these NAMA places. I'd imagine what's holding a lot of people back is the damage they feel it might do to their reputation. That guy that has done it (fair play to him) has attracted a lot of attention to himself, which a lot of us aren't comfortable with.

    I think the vast majority of people would see that there is nothing morally wrong with squatting in a NAMA house but we're just afriad to raise our heads above the parapet.


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  • #31
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    franktheplank wrote: »
    I suspect there'll be a catch but here's hoping! And if it's gonna be happening there hurry the **** up RA must be costing the country a fortune to the benefit only of property investors and also keeping a false floor in the rental market.

    I like the thread, i've often wondered what would happen if you just start squatting in one of these NAMA places. I'd imagine what's holding a lot of people back is the damage they feel it might do to their reputation. That guy that has done it (fair play to him) has attracted a lot of attention to himself, which a lot of us aren't comfortable with.

    I think the vast majority of people would see that there is nothing morally wrong with squatting in a NAMA house but we're just afriad to raise our heads above the parapet.

    Agreed.
    There is also a common fear of eviction, but in reality the Gard's don't evict squatters, the Judges do after a Court hearing. It could go either way, but if the squatters intentions are to live peacefully and do the property up rather than trash the house; then the Judges tend to look more favourably on them.
    The way I see it is rent free living, pure and simple. If NAMA have vacant property then why not use it until its sold? Heating the properties and keeping the rats out is actually better for the properties then leaving them to deteriate while empty. I am on the dole, so have nothing to lose really. I would prefer to squat an empty house rather than claim rent allowance. I don't see squatting an empty house owned by NAMA as a drain on the state in the way rent allowance is.


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