canicemcavoy
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(Yin to this thread's yang - http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=118510 )
I'd like to see a corresponding thread on who would be a tenant? I've certainly never met an Irish landlord who wasn't an Arfur Daley-type chancer (except without the cockney charm and catchy theme music).
My first landlord never mentioned there was a hole in the bedroom floor until I fell into it knee deep through the (very thin) carpet. And once attempted to fix a lock with some Rizla paper. (Honest)
(Still, it could have been worse - the same landlord was in the process of demolishing a building in which a friend of mine was renting, but away for the summer. Only for the fact his girlfriend was passing the building on the quays, was she able to rescue his belongings.)
My landlord after that was famous for being only contactable for his very frequent rent-increases. When eventually I decided to move to an apartment belonging to him in the same building, he promised he would fix/replace certain things there (including a cooker that was falling apart from rust) but of course never did. Luckily I got my deposit back and skeddaddled.
Landlord no. 3 was, again, was another man who promised the moon (according to the agent, delighted that he had a "quality" tenant) and yet delivered not even moon rock. During my tenancy, there was pretty much a constant leak in the hallway next to a fuse box. Each time I rang him about it, he expressed astonishment that the problem had not miraculously fixed itself. Also, the badly installed toilet and badly installed shower pump both flooded the apartment, the former of which took several days to fix as for some reason he decided to employ what looked like a baffled 14-year-old Eastern European boy to fix it, who first of all took the loo apart before realizing he didn't have the necessary parts to put it back together. Needless to say, it wasn't the landlord who spent days mopping the place, hiring carpet cleaners to attempt to clean the carpets, and bought a dehumidifier to dry the place out thoroughly.
The one great thing about being an Irish tenant is that it does give you a wealth of dinner party stories. Please share yours!
I'd like to see a corresponding thread on who would be a tenant? I've certainly never met an Irish landlord who wasn't an Arfur Daley-type chancer (except without the cockney charm and catchy theme music).
My first landlord never mentioned there was a hole in the bedroom floor until I fell into it knee deep through the (very thin) carpet. And once attempted to fix a lock with some Rizla paper. (Honest)
(Still, it could have been worse - the same landlord was in the process of demolishing a building in which a friend of mine was renting, but away for the summer. Only for the fact his girlfriend was passing the building on the quays, was she able to rescue his belongings.)
My landlord after that was famous for being only contactable for his very frequent rent-increases. When eventually I decided to move to an apartment belonging to him in the same building, he promised he would fix/replace certain things there (including a cooker that was falling apart from rust) but of course never did. Luckily I got my deposit back and skeddaddled.
Landlord no. 3 was, again, was another man who promised the moon (according to the agent, delighted that he had a "quality" tenant) and yet delivered not even moon rock. During my tenancy, there was pretty much a constant leak in the hallway next to a fuse box. Each time I rang him about it, he expressed astonishment that the problem had not miraculously fixed itself. Also, the badly installed toilet and badly installed shower pump both flooded the apartment, the former of which took several days to fix as for some reason he decided to employ what looked like a baffled 14-year-old Eastern European boy to fix it, who first of all took the loo apart before realizing he didn't have the necessary parts to put it back together. Needless to say, it wasn't the landlord who spent days mopping the place, hiring carpet cleaners to attempt to clean the carpets, and bought a dehumidifier to dry the place out thoroughly.
The one great thing about being an Irish tenant is that it does give you a wealth of dinner party stories. Please share yours!