Nobody forced the State to rent from the poster. It's (or at least was) a free market but due to the entitlement culture, the lack of council property etc landlords have become the scapegoat and comments like the above show how the public have completely missed this fact.
People want the property sector to be professional etc. Currently everything is pitched against the small landlord but people are so naively following the media its actually sad people don't see it.
Not sure why you quoted my post as your comments seem like a complete non sequitur to what I posted in relation to @DannyBoyD's previous post?
I quoted your post in response to your "thin skin" reference.
Compared with some other jurisdictions, I personally believe that the off-the-book work is much more prevalent here. I had a potential renter who told me they had a payslip covering 3 days but they actually worked 5 or 6. I had a genuine conversation with a worker telling me that since COVID his business was less profitable as people paid cards instead of cash so everything needed to be declared. I had some established businesses refusing card payments. It's nearly impossible to get a receipt from some service providers and quotes often seem to be for cash payment. I lived abroad and the situation was different. It is an issue that is largely ignored in my point of view.
Where young (or even older) adults have quite wealthy families have significant family support, they won't qualify for anything that requires means testing. This creates a perverse incentive to move out and live independently. Do know of at least one case like the one above, family has around 2m worth of independent wealth, a few properties, their own business, which they give him a job in (he is too irresponsible to sign the business over as he'd wreck it), and he also has gambling winnings of over 100k which he doesn't declare. And of course a spouse and child who are more than happy to play along.
It very much sounds like they have family resources which could be tapped. There is no way a HAP tenant could get a mortgage under normal circumstances, unless they have secret lives as criminal masterminds.
My HAP tenant offered to buy off me last year. He was using cash he had from his business, said he had 100K, and needed to sell 2 houses in X (abroad, not Europe) to get the rest. He also showed me three plots of land he has bought in Ireland. On which he constructed a business that cannot be seen (cash natch). And yes I saw it. I also went into the land registry website to check he owed it. From his calling me to his location he gave me the Eircode and based on my memory of walking the land with him I was able to track down the three plots.Wow, some of the posts in this thread surely show that Ireland of the squinting windows/twitching curtains is alive and kicking in the 21st century!
HAP tenant's. I've had plenty. People have no clue what is going on. And if you alert HAP, you can be sure you'll end up with no rent and a sitting tenant. They are at everything you couldn't even imagine.
It was. Landlords have thick skins as we are constantly told how awful we are. Including Danny saying he was funding Luternau.
I don’t think @Luternau was making any such insinuation.
Anyone exiting HAP and able to purchase a house for €450K is well dodgy. And it's skin off everybody's nose if people are able to get free housing while hiding assets everywhere. If it walks like a duck ..........
Pretty much for all my tenants, they paid a minor amount. Hap pays me the full amount, and the tenant pays the council/Corporation their share. In the case of the guy I spoke about, he was not declaring his assets or income to HAP. Clearly. He was at it for years to try and get the Hap and gave up a job to get it.
In a market of rising interest rates.