Who'd live in a house like this? Part 2

Mollyb60 · 10-10-2018 12:20pm

Has it been taken down?

Edit: nvm I think it's still there. Just couldn't find it for a sec.

Thatnastyboy · 10-10-2018 12:23pm

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Has it been taken down?

Been snapped up by a keen go-getter I'd say...

RacoonQueen · 10-10-2018 12:31pm

One of the walls is literally the exterior wall of the house.

inforfun · 10-10-2018 12:45pm

And the other one the fence, i reckon.

Surreptitious · 10-10-2018 12:54pm

It reminds me of when you're a kid with your pals and you're pretend making your own house down the back of someone's garden.

HeidiHeidi · 10-10-2018 12:56pm

Surreptitious wrote: »

It reminds me of when you're a kid with your pals and you're pretend making your own house down the back of someone's garden.

If only you'd had the wit at the time to charge €700pm for it

Sonics2k · 10-10-2018 12:58pm

That's not even funny. That's rage-inducing.

Oh won't someone think of the poor landlords.

Boom_Bap · 10-10-2018 1:03pm

I seen the the guys that made this after completion saying that it's a way to solve the homeless crisis and it's all made of of recycled goods. The expensive part was the windows which are also recycled.

But the greed has taken over now.

One of the exterior walls of the house has a vent which they have boxed off! So god knows what fumes and scents will be trapped there.

Disgrace that this 'project' is being rented out now.

Kamili · 10-10-2018 1:04pm

Its even been approved by spotahome - whomever approved that should be made live in it during this storm we might have coming over the next few days.

Oh and don't forget, if they cancel, they will not get their deposit of one month back. Paid up front..

Johnnio13 · 10-10-2018 2:29pm

what it looks to be is the corridor that runs down the side of your house and someone put a roof on it.
This breaks so many codes its not funny.

Boom_Bap · 10-10-2018 2:32pm

Johnnio13 wrote: »

what it looks to be is the corridor that runs down the side of your house and someone put a roof on it.
This breaks so many codes its not funny.

It is someones side entrance.
Wait til it's bin day and the house owners are swanning through your gaf with the green bin.

ShaneC93 · 10-10-2018 2:37pm

Checked by Spotahome

What exactly did they even check for?? It's less than a third of the 40sq.m size required for studios for let and misses out on a ton of other rental requirements like oven extractor fan, cupboards, draining area, microwave.. Not even mentioning the fact it's outside between a fence and the wall of their house with presumably no insulation.. It's honestly a joke that they'd even put it on there that they've checked the place over and yet still approved it.

AlmightyCushion · 10-10-2018 2:38pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

It is someones side entrance.
Wait til it's bin day and the house owners are swanning through your gaf with the green bin.

I'd rather sleep in the green bin than that shack.

Graces7 · 10-10-2018 2:39pm

BandMember wrote: »

I've seen some really bad and horrible things on this thread, but that kip of a hovel in Sutton just takes the p*ss!!

The scum who would seek to exploit some sucker and make money from this should be publicly named and shamed.

The website advertising that should be shut down and the person responsible for it and in the video face consequences.

and the real scandal is that folk are so desperate to rent that someone will take it.

Kamili · 10-10-2018 2:42pm

ShaneC93 wrote: »

What exactly did they even check for?? It's less than a third of the 40sq.m size required for studios for let and misses out on a ton of other rental requirements like oven extractor fan, cupboards, draining area, microwave.. Not even mentioning the fact it's outside between a fence and the wall of their house with presumably no insulation.. It's honestly a joke that they'd even put it on there that they've checked the place over and yet still approved it.

but but, it has a smoke alarm!

Purple Mountain · 10-10-2018 2:49pm

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I'd rather sleep in the green bin than that shack.

Joseph Fritzel did a better job.

cherryghost · 10-10-2018 2:59pm

I'm gobsmacked someone has the gall to tack 3 planks of wood and a roof to the side of a house and call it a 1 double bed studio. Sickening

TerrorFirmer · 10-10-2018 3:07pm

That's the worst thing I've seen on this thread by a wide margin. You might as well chuck up a tent in a park somewhere for all that offers.

Deebles McBeebles · 10-10-2018 3:09pm

Not quiet as bad but that last one reminded me of this
https://www.daft.ie/laois/bungalows-for-sale/portlaoise/no178a-crann-nua-portlaoise-laois-1668829/

Someone has built what is essentially a large conservatory on the side of their terraced house in an estate. Notice the name, "178A".

Great spot if you ever wanted to live your life totally exposed to the public footpath 6 feet from your large windows.

nim1bdeh38l2cw · 10-10-2018 3:10pm

inforfun wrote: »

While it looks like they used decent stuff to renovate that place, who in their ****ing mind thinks people love to sit down on a couch watching their kitchen sink?

Anyone in an apartment...

Mitch Connor · 10-10-2018 3:10pm

is spotahome legit? Or will it turn out that the ad was just an awareness raising hoax, to highlight the rental sector problems?

Like really, sure it has to be a hoax. it can't actually be real.

ShaneC93 · 10-10-2018 3:22pm

Kamili wrote: »

but but, it has a smoke alarm!

Thankfully, that place looks like it would burn to the ground in seconds.. Hopefully it's actually wired up.

inforfun · 10-10-2018 3:30pm

Mitch Connor wrote: »

is spotahome legit? Or will it turn out that the ad was just an awareness raising hoax, to highlight the rental sector problems?

Like really, sure it has to be a hoax. it can't actually be real.

Nope, they are legit.
Looked into it a bit.
More focused on students and people coming over for a year to work than on families but that isnt an excuse for this ****.

Mollyb60 · 10-10-2018 3:43pm

inforfun wrote: »

Nope, they are legit.
Looked into it a bit.
More focused on students and people coming over for a year to work than on families but that isnt an excuse for this ****.

Some of the apartments on that site are 2k a month and upwards. No clue what kind of students would be able to afford that sort of rent!

The whole site looks dodgy as ****.

ShaneC93 · 10-10-2018 3:53pm

inforfun wrote: »

Nope, they are legit.
Looked into it a bit.
More focused on students and people coming over for a year to work than on families but that isnt an excuse for this ****.

Funnily enough their whole business model appears to be centered around them going to each property and "verifying it" plus taking the pictures / videos themselves and then saying that tenants can't even view the property because it must be like the pictures and meeting requirements because it was verified by themselves..

Just makes them look like a complete joke now if they just "verify" any property as "checked by Spotahome" regardless of whether it meets rental requirements or not. If this manages to get approval from them, I'd love to see what they actually reject..

inforfun · 10-10-2018 3:59pm

ShaneC93 wrote: »

If this manages to get approval from them, I'd love to see what they actually reject..

Why not go and ask them....

#fundafun added to give it some "wings"

Purple Mountain · 10-10-2018 4:05pm

That Sutton house actually reminds me of a house I had as a child.
Similar size, layout and equipment.
Except this was my cobby house and it was for playing in.

Kamili · 10-10-2018 4:10pm

inforfun wrote: »

Why not go and ask them....

#fundafun added to give it some "wings"

Good luck getting a response from them, Reviews are pretty crap for customer care

https://ie.trustpilot.com/review/www.spotahome.com

inforfun · 10-10-2018 5:58pm

Well, got a reply....

Wish i could do this in Dutch. So much easier for me to rip them a new one in my own language.

10-10-2018 6:04pm

inforfun wrote: »

Well, got a reply....

Wish i could do this in Dutch. So much easier for me to rip them a new one in my own language.

And it's Gone!
Either some poor sod has taken it on or they've realised that they're going to be crucified for trying to let it.

Jenneke87 · 10-10-2018 6:07pm

inforfun wrote: »

Well, got a reply....

Wish i could do this in Dutch. So much easier for me to rip them a new one in my own language.[/quote

Wie denken jullie wel niet wie jullie zijn, stelletje oplichtende graftakken! Wonen? Ik kan m'n schoonmoeder nog niet begraven hier! And then watch their faces trying to make sense of it ::-D

inforfun · 10-10-2018 6:48pm

Yes... that i would consider polite.
Born and raised in Rotterdam and i dont do polite when i am pissed off.

Even Jeremy Clarkson is impressed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2dhjDE2Ro

10-10-2018 7:36pm

Kamili wrote: »

They've made a video to show you round!

The video's been taken down, but this is the internet and there are other copies available

Lackey · 10-10-2018 8:43pm

yellowlabrador wrote: »

https://www.spotahome.com/dublin/for-rent:apartments/261464

I'm speechless..... survive winter in this one?

Yellowlabradour wins the thread :pac:

Rows Grower · 10-10-2018 8:46pm

Lackey wrote: »

Yellowlabradour wins the thread :pac:

Winner winner, outside for the chicken dinner.

Johnnio13 · 10-10-2018 10:55pm

Spotahome kip has been taken down..

Grayson · 11-10-2018 12:30am

inforfun wrote: »

https://gyazo.com/9a1e7c689dd7cf3919bfa24dd7f1d60c

https://gyazo.com/4fa2624c918b5a730d89d6e753faa823

https://gyazo.com/25b2b5e7dd26f42eeeecf164193ead43

https://gyazo.com/06d2618910963cf57428f51f0d76e795

https://gyazo.com/fa02e2f51f044e094e5ebd341c9327d6

https://gyazo.com/2d2f45ccdc957a1abd663180adff0efd

https://gyazo.com/fb13e4347fb96c752411fca70749ab1d

https://gyazo.com/3ce1a29672628f9e79a3e650eb2ec14d

https://gyazo.com/e6f04244891fb78dfcb9d0a9f4ac8189

https://gyazo.com/78aa940fc85bc8754fdc65f1464c6d90

Get the gyazo extension in chrome and you only have to hover over the link to see the picture.

Someone sent me the link earlier on whatsapp but it was gone by the time I got to it. Thanks for the screenshots.

gozunda · 11-10-2018 1:37am

Grayson wrote: »

Someone sent me the link earlier on whatsapp but it was gone by the time I got to it. Thanks for the screenshots.

The construction of that place kinda reminds me of this. Just not as well built ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioT6pdX6o18

Very intersting doc ...

Exclamation Marc · 11-10-2018 8:09am

TheJournal reporting on that side passage shed for anyone who didn't see it first time around...

Advert for 'glorified shed', being rented for €700/month, removed from website

Fixed link

http://www.thejournal.ie/property-ad-removed-from-website-4279472-Oct2018/

inforfun · 11-10-2018 8:12am

Linkie nie workie

Exclamation Marc · 11-10-2018 8:17am

inforfun wrote: »

Linkie nie workie

Fixed hopefully.

inforfun · 11-10-2018 8:22am

From the comments:

He said from his council house\bedroom in parents house

I think i would get along really well with that person.

Kamili · 11-10-2018 8:29am

does anyone have a link to the video that the "developer" of this shack posted on facebook?

The Nal · 11-10-2018 9:41am

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

TheJournal reporting on that side passage shed for anyone who didn't see it first time around...

Advert for 'glorified shed', being rented for €700/month, removed from website

Fixed link

http://www.thejournal.ie/property-ad-removed-from-website-4279472-Oct2018/

Lovin Dublin, Joe.ie, Journal etc all reported it and another posted on here. They're nicking stories from here.

You WHORES.

Thatnastyboy · 11-10-2018 9:47am

Conspiracy me says this was a ruse to get their website out in the open - no such thing as bad publicity or something?

Mitch Connor · 11-10-2018 9:48am

Thatnastyboy wrote: »

Conspiracy me says this was a ruse to get their website out in the open - no such thing as bad publicity or something?

well I am seeing loads of banner ads for them now.

AlmightyCushion · 11-10-2018 11:50am

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

TheJournal reporting on that side passage shed for anyone who didn't see it first time around...

Advert for 'glorified shed', being rented for €700/month, removed from website

Fixed link

http://www.thejournal.ie/property-ad-removed-from-website-4279472-Oct2018/

It's not a glorified shed, a glorified shed would be an improvement on that thing. It's just a few pieces of plywood stuck to the side of their house. You'd feel bad putting a dog in it on a cold, windy night.

ShaneC93 · 11-10-2018 2:38pm

I wonder how long it will be until the landlord decides to stick it up on Daft instead.

I don't believe it was a hoax. I know people say 'any publicity is good publicity' but the way Spotahome handled the backlash / media attention was anything but good. Instead of just apologising and saying they'll put in place procedures so it doesn't happen again etc. they essentially doubled down and said it was not at all their fault / problem and that the 'Checked by Spotahome Guarantee' just means the property exists.. not that it meets regulations / is safe to live in.

inforfun · 11-10-2018 2:42pm

That "verifier" Veronica was in the pictures, just like she is in all the other available Dublin accommodation.
If you just want to hoax, you wouldnt put that picture in there.

It wasnt a hoax and it wasnt an over sight. They are just in there to make money and dont give a **** how.

Graces7 · 11-10-2018 2:52pm

inforfun wrote: »

That "verifier" Veronica was in the pictures, just like she is in all the other available Dublin accommodation.
If you just want to hoax, you wouldnt put that picture in there.

It wasnt a hoax and it wasnt an over sight. They are just in there to make money and dont give a **** how.

Ran this past family in Canada who just laughed and that this happens all the time over there..

I mentioned Tiny Homes?

See

http://www.tinyhomes.ie/

https://selfbuild.ie/advice/tiny-homes/

Who'd live in a house like this? Part 2

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