Letting to students

NoRegretsCoyote said:
There is no legislative proposal to remove your right to terminate a tenancy to allow one your children to use the property.
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That is correct, not right now there’s not.
But given the rate at which they’ve been changing legislation in the three short years I’ve been renting out my property.
What’s to stop them getting small LLs locked in to indefinite tenancies and then flicking the switch and systematically removing each of the grounds a small LL has to get their property back?
I don’t trust them, my home is for my child and I will not jeopardise his right to have it.
 
Leo said:
No, it will be very easy. There has been some debate around including holiday homes, no firm proposals yet, but obvious things like a not allowing someone claim a property in close proximity to their PPR as a holiday home would be easy to implement.
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My first starter home I’m renting is nowhere near my PPR, it is in Dublin just ten minutes from my business offices of 30 years.
I live two hours away in the country, and for the 17 years prior to my renting it out we used my home to break up a few days of the long commute each day to work to Dublin. I shall be returning to a similar arrangement.
 
Contact a like minded person on the other side of the country.
You stay in his property whenever you feel like a break on the other side of the country. He stays in yours when he fancies one.

But back to the indefinite tenancy. One of next years legislation changes might be to remove the right to ask the tenant to leave if you want to sell.
You might as well just roll a dice these days when it comes to legislation on rentals.
 
fistophobia said:
Simple way around this, rip out the central heating, makes the property uninhabitable.
Same way to avoid LPT.
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That in itself might not be sufficient to get it declared uninhabitable. But if it is, do you really want to have to go through the planning process if you want to reclassify it as habitable in future? That would be a huge risk as you would need to be able to fully satisfy the building regulations of the day.
 
As above, that then brings it outside the scope of this thread, i.e. off-topic.
 
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