Daughter and SIL had to rent when they first arrived in Ireland, with their daughters aged 3 and 8 months. A friend had looked round the house for them, they hadn't seen it before they moved but it was the only house available to them at short notice. We were with them, which was useful as the floor was too dirty for them to put the baby down - I went round the house mopping floors, unblocking shower drains etc, and borrowed a steam cleaner for the disgusting downstairs loo. The house had not been maintained - they complained that the bathroom soil pipe was leaking onto the patio (great with little kids!) but nothing was done about it. We helped them clean the house a year later when they moved out - it was spotless when they left it.
They had to pay their rent in cash. Regulation of Irish landlords was long overdue, I think...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Please don't tar us all with the same brush, we had rental properties until retirement and always treated our tenants fairly and provided a clean safe place for families to live in. Sometimes the tenants did not always reciprocate and didn't leave the place as they found it but we always repaid the deposit although in some cases there would have been justification in withholding cleaning fees.
I used to rent a room out to students in our old house after an appeal from the university. Not the same rules as renting a whole house or flat but rules nonetheless. Only withheld the deposit once when she used blutack to stick postcards all over the wall and it left greasy smudges that had to be painted out and she also managed to break the TV. The one month's rent deposit didn't cover all that.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Ok . Have you blinked yet! Did you buy an extra tin of tomatoes or a jumbo slab of toilet rolls? Have you bought an extra bottle of something -just in case? Have you put off booking your holiday in case the company goes down the toilet?
I did look at some of the Spanish salad stuff. I don't normally buy it, but the thought crossed my mind that I might not have the choice in a couple of weeks.
I didn't
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
We're not allowed to go on holiday as we have a GCSE student in our midst. But had it been an option, I would certainly have hesitated about booking to go in the near future.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I haven't been hoarding and don't intend to, there's nothing I couldn't do without I think. My pharmacy however does seem to be giving me extra supplies of meds.
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They had to pay their rent in cash. Regulation of Irish landlords was long overdue, I think...
Did you buy an extra tin of tomatoes or a jumbo slab of toilet rolls? Have you bought an extra bottle of something -just in case?
Have you put off booking your holiday in case the company goes down the toilet?
I didn't
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”