Hi
We employed a worker in 2019 for 5 months. We got accomodation the landlord said he had a room to rent for 600/ month. There was no lease signed the landlord paid electricity etc. The agreement was when our employee left the house was to be clean and we would get our deposit back. When the house was vacant we looked at it and it was as good as the day our employee moved in. The landlord disputed this and said the bathroom needs cleaning we said we would clean this but could not get the keys from him. a few months later after trying to ring him he said the tenant broke the letter box and the dishwasher this was €400 (all was left perfect) and he needed €200 to clean the house.
The landlord never lived in the house. Can he still claim rent a room relief ??
If no lease was signed could we take it to the RTB our employee had the house to himself ??
Any suggestion would be appreciate.
We employed a worker in 2019 for 5 months. We got accomodation the landlord said he had a room to rent for 600/ month. There was no lease signed the landlord paid electricity etc. The agreement was when our employee left the house was to be clean and we would get our deposit back. When the house was vacant we looked at it and it was as good as the day our employee moved in. The landlord disputed this and said the bathroom needs cleaning we said we would clean this but could not get the keys from him. a few months later after trying to ring him he said the tenant broke the letter box and the dishwasher this was €400 (all was left perfect) and he needed €200 to clean the house.
The landlord never lived in the house. Can he still claim rent a room relief ??
If no lease was signed could we take it to the RTB our employee had the house to himself ??
Any suggestion would be appreciate.