uncleseano
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Heya lads,
This HAP program looks great. We're on the housing list and we're eligible for the HAP problem is the rent at the property we're looking at is €1800 p/m.
Yeah yeah I know, but Dublin prices for 3 bed family homes are just this price. Anywhos the HAP would pay 1270 (Couple & Two Kids) towards this,it's a total game changer for us BUT the limit that is imposed for rental properties (when stretched) it around the 1500 mark.
I get it that they have to have a mechanism in place so that people can still live on their income but we don't smoke, drink, do drugs, get fat taxis around etc, we're very frugal (READ: Boring) people so for us the idea of us not being able to pay the 500 for rent a month is laughable but the limits won't go any higher for us so we wont receive a penny.
How often to landlords pull a cheeky one and tell the state that the rent IS infact 1500 a month if I give him/her the other 300 as a top us?
Can the state(HAP) find out? Would they even care? How dodgey is it? Dublin prices just means that we cannot find anywhere to live without doing this.
What do ya think, if the HAP crowd discovered this would they turn a blind eye? Or would we stand to lose the payment.
Sorry for the long write up, too much coffee this morning
This HAP program looks great. We're on the housing list and we're eligible for the HAP problem is the rent at the property we're looking at is €1800 p/m.
Yeah yeah I know, but Dublin prices for 3 bed family homes are just this price. Anywhos the HAP would pay 1270 (Couple & Two Kids) towards this,it's a total game changer for us BUT the limit that is imposed for rental properties (when stretched) it around the 1500 mark.
I get it that they have to have a mechanism in place so that people can still live on their income but we don't smoke, drink, do drugs, get fat taxis around etc, we're very frugal (READ: Boring) people so for us the idea of us not being able to pay the 500 for rent a month is laughable but the limits won't go any higher for us so we wont receive a penny.
How often to landlords pull a cheeky one and tell the state that the rent IS infact 1500 a month if I give him/her the other 300 as a top us?
Can the state(HAP) find out? Would they even care? How dodgey is it? Dublin prices just means that we cannot find anywhere to live without doing this.
What do ya think, if the HAP crowd discovered this would they turn a blind eye? Or would we stand to lose the payment.
Sorry for the long write up, too much coffee this morning