I speak to a lot of landlords who keep rents below market rates or don't increase it just to keep a good tenant. If large companies become landlords, all renters will find automatic increases each year up to the limit.
the criteria to increase rent more than the old 4% method was crazy. You have to add living space by way of an extension, improve the BER rating by 7, so go from a C3 rating to an A2 rating, or else permantly alter the layout of the house. I think from recall you need to do two of the three.
the new inflation linked increases don't seem to have the same criteria, just every two years in line with inflation.
Is there anything more than anecdote to support this idea that small-scale landlords are more tenant friendly than institutional landlords? In my renting days, I always found it easier to work with a proper letting agent than the actual landlord, in terms of service and rent levels. Those were the days before the institutional landlords, mind you.
What makes you assume that the owner of the rental property was not a small-scale landlord? Just because you were dealing with a letting agent doesn't mean that the were not employed by a small-scale landlord to take care of their property.
I was making the point that, as a tenant, I had better experiences dealing with a professional agent than dealing direct with a landlord. I don't think we had too many institutional landlords in those days, so it's possibly difficult to compare.
I see. I would imagine that it varies. Of all the landlords I had the only one who didn't do anything was the one with multiple properties but I suppose everyone's experience would be different.
I am a landlord with 2 properties I manage them myself, I always try and avoid tenants who have been shortchanged by former landlords,
Its v short sighted. There has to be a rent freeze I think. Even though that'll drive more out.
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Dr Rory Hearne: It's simple - the Government favours landlords and investors over renters
The housing expert says the broken rental market in Ireland is down to years of failed political policy.
This one of the factors driving these policies. Blatantly political comments under the cover of a University affiliation. Apparently the only landlords leaving the sector are accidential ones.
He is also a regular on RTE without his hard-left political history ever being mentioned.
I would just reproduce the template wording - the solicitor can strike out the wording that is not applicable.
Don't worry about the people who never got elected at least we know where he stands when he went for election,
Politicans just want media off their backs
I think I'll say ' I'm a private intellectual'. So I'm really intelligent but only I know it, unless I tell you I'm very intelligent.