Dermot, I think the current system favours bad tenants and bad landlords. Basically the PTRB is useless and whomever is willing to break the law and brazen it out wins.
I am a owner, landlord (in a very small way) and a tenant. I have no real security and can't think of the house as my home because my landlord can kick me out whenever he wants. He's a great guy and we get on really well but at the end of the day he could just decide to sell and then I'm out on my ear. Why can't it work like a business lease? That would mean people would do work on their homes, decorate them etc as they would know they would be staying for 3 or 5 or 10 years.
Then there would be stability for landlords and tenants and less pressure on the housing market.