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Landlord wants 'Fee' for allowing my own couch in rental apartment

KevinGossRoss

I'm renting a little one bedroom apartment in Ranelagh at €700 with my girlfriend. The place came with terrible old bench type 'sofas'. When the agent showed us the place we mentioned that we'd eventually need to get something more comfy and he didn't object to the idea. We tried to get hold of the landlord for over a week to ask him if he could move the two seater into a storage area he has on the property and get a new, actual sofa. He didn't reply to texts and didn't answer his phone (which rang and then went to voicemail). We found a great deal for a second hand two seater sofa on Gumtree and decided to just take it. We moved it into the already cramped flat and kept trying to get hold of the landlord. Eventually I sent a text asking if I could leave the sofa in the hallway (plenty of space) and immediately got a reply of 'Don't remove any furniture from the apartment'. When I phoned him to discuss the matter he told me that 1. None of the furniture would be allowed to be removed and 2. We aren't allowed any of our own furniture and that we'd have to pay a fee to keep it there. He's coming over tomorrow to negotiate.

Obviously he doesn't have to remove his benches if he doesn't want to but it really isn't a big deal. My girlfriend and I could do it in 10 minutes. But that is fine. If he wants to be difficult there isn't much we can do.

All I want to know is whether charging a fee to bring your own furniture into a (semi) furnished apartment is normal. And if it is, where does it end? Can I bring in a coffee table? A desk? Can I bring clothes? Is he going to ask me money to keep my plates in the cabinets next?

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P_1

Usually a lease would let you do whatever to the place so long as you return it in the same state that you found it in.

E.g.:
You don't like the couch in the sitting room, you move your own one in instead. When the lease is over you make sure your new couch is gone and the original couch is back in its place.

You don't like the paint colour in the sitting room, you paint over it. When the lease is over you make sure the wall has been repainted in its original colour.