I have a tenant renting for 2 and 1/2 years. She has not paid for July or August.

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Aoife34 said:
... i have had to pay the August rent and will have to pay the September one too!...
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I cant understand this. If you are the landlord why on earth are you paying the rent? And who are you paying?...yourself?
 
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ajapale said:
I cant understand this. If you are the landlord why on earth are you paying the rent? And who are you paying?...yourself?
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Exactly, this is what I have been asking but still have not got an answer. One poster even thought it was pendatic to ask this!
 
minion said:
i would send the her a letter telling her that unless your rent is paid you will go to the local authority who will most likely then remove her from the housing list as an unacceptable risk see what she thinks of that.
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She might well think 'Great - now I can add slander and breach of privacy to my claim against the landlord'.
 
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Steve D said:
Exactly, this is what I have been asking but still have not got an answer. One poster even thought it was pendatic to ask this!
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is it not obvious she's talking about her mortgage on her investment property?
 


the landloard CANNOT demand this by the local authority.Im on ra and the person is given the choice.persoally i would write a letter giving her 4 weeks to move out,keep a copy for yourself and get a p.p from the post office or send it registred.if she hasnt moved out in your time frame then to cover your butt i'd inform the gards of your intensions.
Best of luck.
 
Complainer said:
She might well think 'Great - now I can add slander and breach of privacy to my claim against the landlord'.
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Please ponit out the slander. you wont be telling the local authority anything that does not concern them or that is not the truth.
 
doll2824 said:
the landloard CANNOT demand this by the local authority.Im on ra and the person is given the choice.
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Not true. the landlord can phone the lc and make the ra cheque being paid into their account a condition of the tenancy. If you were given a choice it was because the landlord had no preference.
 
minion said:
Please ponit out the slander. you wont be telling the local authority anything that does not concern them or that is not the truth.
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The local authority has no involvement in rent allowance or rent supplement. Rent allowance is
administered by DSFA. Rent supplement [/quote] is administered by the HSE on behalf of DSFA. In both cases, payments are made directly to the tenant.

So any letter written to the local authority would be a breach of privacy.

You might be getting mixed up with the [URL="http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/housing/local-authority-and-social-housing/rental-accommodation-scheme"]Rental Accomodation Scheme which is managed by the local authority. However, as payments under this scheme are made automatically by EFT and the landlord is not involved in selecting the tenants, it does not apply to this case.
minion said:
Not true. the landlord can phone the lc and make the ra cheque being paid into their account a condition of the tenancy. If you were given a choice it was because the landlord had no preference.
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Not according to http://www.citizensinformation.ie/c...supplementary-welfare-schemes/rent_supplement
 
Complainer said:
The local authority has no involvement in rent allowance or rent supplement. Rent allowance is
administered by DSFA. Rent supplement
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is administered by the HSE on behalf of DSFA. In both cases, payments are made directly to the tenant.[/quote]

So any letter written to the local authority would be a breach of privacy.


Complainer said:
You might be getting mixed up with the [URL="http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/housing/local-authority-and-social-housing/rental-accommodation-scheme"]Rental Accomodation Scheme
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Why not phone the local authority and ask them. when something has happens that a tenant has had to go on rent allowance, I've done this on several occasions and stated that i am fine with the rent allowance, provided the payment is made directly to my bank account from the dept. A few times the tenant has kicked up but it is still payed directly to me as i make it a condition.

Is informing the tax or social welfare office of someone receiving a personal injuries claim, or not paying tax in their job, or drawing the dole while working a breach of privacy also. I think a phonecall to the local authority stating that the person receiving rent allowance is not actually using it to oay the rent would be received in much the same manner.
 
I know somebody who was in the exact same position with RA. He reported it to the relevant authorities but they didnt seem to do anything. He went the legal route & issued a letter of eviction etc but that process was lengthy and he wanted him out asap. Then he confronted the tenant and said that he was going to take a personal action against them for fraud (he had signed the landlords signature for his RA) and was reporting it to the Gardai. The tenant was gone within the week.
 
Are you registered with the PTRB? I suspect not juding by the course of events.....You have no right to enter the house and remove her things but it can be done obviously if you're sure she wont take action against you...I doubt it

 
Murt10 said:
Here are the details of the case in qyestion from the PRTB website



Murt
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The conculsion of that from my reading of it, seems to be the tenant ends up not having to pay about 8k in rent because of illegal eviction, and also gets the bulk of their deposit back another 1k. The landlord doesn't have to pay damages because of the rent due. Seems to be a lot of messing from both sides. But at the end of the day the landlord is down 8k. If the landlord hadn't done an illegal eviction I don't think he would have got the back rent anyway, and could be owed even more rent.

I can't see how this system helps tenants. Its seems to encourage illegal evictions, and faster ones too.
 
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