Got assaulted by the lodger in the house

I am kind of depressed after what happened to me. I called the Dundrum Garda station on Saturday morning,15th February 2020, told them the whole thing, waited for a whole day yesterday, called them 5 times, still no one came to help. Around 9 pm the call center told me to walk to the Garda station to report instead, as they are too busy.

I am a sole lease holder for the current house I have been renting for almost two years, and recently renew the lease for the third year. In January 2020, I sublet the single room in my house to an unknown woman who reached me from Daft.ie. I was very busy around the time so got careless when asking references to assure the person who is coming to live in the house is clean and mentally stable. At least I should get a proof of identification. But I didn’t. I don’t even know her real full name. All I know that she is a middle aged woman who smokes all the time with a dirty mouth.

Long story short, since her move-in, things starts to get awkward. She complained about almost everything, the heat, water, bed, toilet, kitchen... She saw a small patch of stain on the ceiling of bathroom, then she took a photo of it and then threatened me she already report that to the RTB for the house safety. She was not happy with the bed and mattress, then she sent me those links of luxurious mattress which cost round €500, and asked me to buy it for her... I know it sounds insane, but that is what I am suffering exactly. I told her I cannot afford to get those for her and I do not have obligations either.

I only charge her single room rent for €490 per month by the way. Decent room with big walk-in wardrobe, table, chair, book shelf, big window with view to a quiet street. And she request the room to be a hotel standard.

After that, her anti-social aggressiveness started! She would slam the door very loudly all the time including midnight so as to Annoy me. She smashes everything she can in the kitchen, yeah she broke my favourite bowl my bf bought for me. She also let the shower in the bath tap fully on just to let the hot water run out so I cannot shower. Last Friday morning, she locked herself in the bathroom from 7:30am to 8:30am. I know the exact time because I got up at 7:30am and ran to the bathroom and she was in there, singing. I waited for her until 8am, couldn’t wait any longer so I didn’t shower and brushed teeth in the kitchen. When I was leaving for work at 8:30am, she was still in the bathroom, I really need to pet so knocked on door and asked if she finished: “ no, I am not letting you using the toilet.” I was so frustrated with anger and regret and left for work, got late.

You must wonder why I didn’t ask her to move out. Yes I did, I drafted termination notice in the middle of Jan 2020, informed her of evicting herself from my house before 1st of February, deposit will be refunded on the said date when I got back all keys to the house. She refuse to leave and yelling at me for having no rights to remove her.

So she is still living like a queen in the house.On Friday night I left the second termination notice in front of her door. I can’t live this anymore. She had to move out or I will be traumatised. On next day morning, which is this Saturday morning. While I was making my breakfast in the kitchen, she came in very angrily and started her monster performance: she yelled at me with her mouth, which is full of **** no doubt: F**k you “ I can do whatever the f**k I want to do here, f**k you x3...”.

I kept silent and tried to run away to get my phone upstairs to record it. She pushed me to the floor, it really hurts. I got up and ran upstairs to get my phone, only recorded a short one while I was confronting her Again. I got small bruise on both of my knees. In the video I recorded, she gave me very nasty and ugly victory smile as she knows that Dublin Garda won’t do much to her even she hurt me. She is a masculine Caucasian, and I am a petite Asian.

She threatened that she will never move out, she won’t pay utility bills, she will burn down the whole house if I insist in her moving out.

She smoke marijuana in her room sometimes. Which is extremely stinky.

What should I do? I will walk to the Garda station again today to report it. My eyes are full of tears while I am writing down what happened to me here.

I have the lease, and she was invited in by me by mistake in January. There is no any types of contract between me and her, verbally I told her before moving in, just give 1-2 weeks of notice before moving out, to see how we get along with each other. As she is a licensee, I can ask her to move out with reasonable notice right?

What happened to me is that she refuses to move out, and she will continue staying in the house no matter what happens. I mentioned to her before that the landlord might sell the house in winter, she just expressed that she will claim from the landlord then if she is asked to move out.

She also threatened me several times of bringing me to Small claim court, for asking her to move out. On the notice she had at least 2 weeks to move out. In the second termination notice she still has two weeks before 1st of March 2020. I followed the legal procedures here but what I am facing is a shameless scambag who wants to take advantage of innocent people.

She also said in her message that she will only start to look for place until she got her full deposit back, I asked for her bank account details and she refused to disclose, instead asked me to put cash in an envelope... Am I really that stupid to her?

Should I contact a solicitor to let her go or just change the front door lock on1st of March?

But she assaulted me both verbally and physically, she should be evicted in 24hours right? Why there is no protection for the main tenant at all? Why those evil people can get away with what they have done?