"Lifting the eviction ban was the right thing to do"

When it comes to making or losing money there is no place for unrealistic emotions or unclear semantics like there has been on this thread. The Irish Times article in question shows plenty of muddy water too. “Lifting the eviction ban was the right thing to do” is up there with Let’s-remortgage-to-put-our-kids-through-college as it may be the right thing to do. Add in Afterlife Loans as the way to go because it appears to be the right thing to do. The phrase is just a phrase much used in American sitcoms where it belongs.

What does this say about Private Landlords? It means they’ve got to improve their image for a start, their wording, their complaining techniques, their choice of words etc. Many landlords do themselves no favours. Recently, I watched one of them interviewed on television standing next to a car trailer with a badly faded sofa that looked like it had been rescued from a skip on the wrong side of the tracks and destined for his rented property where some poor tenant would contract gangrene within minutes.

It’s all about image, something many landlords don’t buy into. And of course that is obviously the wrong thing to do.
 
Or perhaps the LL discovered that they had totally destroyed the sofa and was getting rid of it. I don't know how you get a mattress moldy, but I got 2 when the last tenants left. When cleaning the property from top to bottom, I tried to avoid touching them. One had barely been sat on before as the property has 2 bedrooms and has never been rented to more than a couple. So that's more to do with perspective than image to me.
 
With respect, just as I said it’s all about image. We have a landlord (justifiably) complaining about mouldy mattresses while struggling tenants are taking over television chat shows with impending homelessness problems. Who would you listen to first?
 
Yes, LL will never win on the image side, they are just not in the same deplorable situation.
But that is the image of the LL you presented with his awful sofa. The day I bring these mattresses to the dump, should I hide just in case people think I am putting them in my rental? I was not complaining, I was stating a fact, part of the business I suppose.
 
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I'd listen to the person who was looking for the root cause of the problem. If they were given a platform.

I've absolutely no interest of hand wringing human interest blubbering, tear filled phone-in's and the absolute garbage RTE churn out. How does hearing the sob story about someone on a housing list or living in a hostel help them or anyone else? It's like a doctor having a chat about your symptoms without telling you what the diagnosis is.

The conversation goes no further than "But what are they doing about it?" instead of "What caused it?".
 
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RTE show last night had a PBP member that was on before recently (obviously invited) and the the teacher (Socialist) who has recently separated from her partner (probably invited as well). RTE cannot do a program on social issues without having a total imbalance in favour of a left agenda.
 
Completely agree. I was listening to Claire Byrne this morning and the term used was "keeping landlords in the sector" rather " encouraging landlords to remain".
 
The Horseman said:
Completely agree. I was listening to Claire Byrne this morning and the term used was "keeping landlords in the sector" rather " encouraging landlords to remain".
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Are they going to do anything for landladies?

Edit: I'd have thought the term landlord was un-pc at this stage.

- Rental Property Owner (he/him)
 
RonnieShinbal88 said:
I'd have thought the term landlord was un-pc at this stage.
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I never thought much about it until I realised that former property owner seemed to take it a bit literally and wanted to be treated like a lord - as in, law unto oneself.

I tend to just say 'property owner' as well if I remember to.
 
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