You have the right to refuse, if they are solid and I mean solid you might consider them, I have friends who would not go near HAP for there properties, too many hurdles and issues I'm afraid.
Property inspections ARE becoming more common - I know of a county-council who have done two inspections (two separate properties/landlords - one requested; one at their insistence) in the last fortnight.
Are you sure your property is even HAP compliant?
My understanding is that there are extra standards expected of the property under the HAP scheme.
First thing would be to assess whether your property is even up to standard, or what it would take to get it there.
I recently got inspected for HAP (SDCC), it wasn't onerous. I received a letter a couple of weeks in advance, from the CC stating they were inspecting and also what normally causes issues with previous inspections.
Off the top of my head:
Boiler to have been certified in the last year.
Appropiate Carbon Monoxide Alarms.
Smoke Alarms.
Fire blanket.
There are minimal standards on citizensinformation.ie
http://www.citizensinformation.ie/e...intenance_and_minimum_physical_standards.html
The Inspectors were building engineers.
LOL, what were they going to do, come along, inspect, and evict my sitting tenants who already were getting rent allowance. Even if they do come, I'll get some kind of report to do xyz. Will I then have to do something? Will they come back to see, let's say I decide I'm not going z as it's too expensive, no doubt I could drag this out for a couple of years and they will give up.
In any case I think what they are obsessed with is fire extinguisers and I've got those and I have the gas certified etc.
Anyway I'm pointing out to you the corproation couldn't give one damn if I'm compliant or not. As long as I did all their box ticking exercise forms it was fine.
Not disagreeing with what you said in relation to the councils ... I was also thinking of the angle of (a) A landlord who doesn't want to accept HAP can use not having met HAP standard for reason X as excuse for refusal and (b) you might get a fussy tenant who pulls you up on it.
Can you be forced to accept HAB?
I understand when letting out a property you cannot refuse a viewing based on the fact that the tenant requires housing assistance, however one can simply choose to take on a tenant with better references !!!!
Once the tenant is in place do I LEGALLY have to accept and sign the forms for HAP?..... thanks
Setanta what are you talking about? I have the ones with batteries, didn't even know you could wire them to the mains. Even in my own home I haven't done this.
I understand when letting out a property you cannot refuse a viewing based on the fact that the tenant requires housing assistance, however one can simply choose to take on a tenant with better references !!!!
Once the tenant is in place do I LEGALLY have to accept and sign the forms for HAP?..... thanks
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