A quick call seems to suggest the PRTB would take my tenants to court, force an eviction. As they are rental-supplement tenants, and I have been receiving the social-welfare part directly from the dept., my thinking is I can afford to see this play out. I am assuming I can win in Court and get some kind of stoppage on their dole-monies, however pitiful that may be .. but better than writing off that rent otherwise foregone. (That stoppage might be EUR5 per week per tenant, a couple)
How likely is the above?
Surely the fact that the tenants have changed the locks without your permission changes things? If you don't have access to your own house then surely the Garda should be involved - as above contact IPOA rather than PTSB.
A quick call seems to suggest the PRTB would take my tenants to court, force an eviction. As they are rental-supplement tenants, and I have been receiving the social-welfare part directly from the dept., my thinking is I can afford to see this play out. I am assuming I can win in Court and get some kind of stoppage on their dole-monies, however pitiful that may be .. but better than writing off that rent otherwise foregone. (That stoppage might be EUR5 per week per tenant, a couple)
How likely is the above?
It did involve taking the PRTB adjudication to the courts though.
What I don't understand is why if the PRTB has ruled in favour of the LL & the eviction notice was valid why can the LL not reclaim his property, change the locks & store the tenants belongings until they claim them. The tenants have been fairly evicted & yet the LL doesn't have his property back.
But if it's a landlord who has a judgement against him for illegal eviction then the damages awarded to the tenant can be in the 5 figure domain.Well the reason is simple. And I've posted it many times on here. The PRTB is toothless against tenants who are paying zero rent and who have PRTB orders against them. The reality is that the Determination Orders of the PRTB are not enforced by them as they cannot do so without taking the tenant to court. And they don't want to waste money on that. Tenants have no money you see. So a court order against the tenants for costs means zero to the PRTB and they know this.
And let's remind us why the PRTB was set up, to avoid going to court. So now instead of going straight to court, and I mean via a year or so, you have to waste your time going via the PRTB, with appeals taking longer and you end up with a worthless bit of paper, the Determination Order and then you have to reinvent the wheel and go to court. Lovely system that. And who is paying for the PRTB. You are.
And conversly if the landlord, with his valid eviction order from the PRTB actually carried out an eviction, that would be illegal and the tenant would then take a PRTB case and win and the PRTB would rule against the landlord and fine you, I've seen a fine of 10K ! and then if you don't pay that , the PRTB will take you the landlord to court to get it from you. You couldn't make it up.
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