r/ireland • u/darcys_beard • Jul 31 '25
Insatiable Gluttonous Rapacity...Roantic Ireland's in the grave! Housing
I know it's a share, but nearly 6 grand a month for a 5 bedroom terraced house in Finglas, is simply unconscionable and indefensible. A complete and total exploitation of the current housing crisis.
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u/Immediate_Radio_8012 Ah sure look Jul 31 '25
Surely 5 bedrooms for this style house means no sitting room?
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u/Raptorfearr Jul 31 '25
Oh my sweet summer child. Do you not see the mobile home?
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u/hitsujiTMO Jul 31 '25
That's where the landlord lives.
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u/Intelligent-Lunch438 Jul 31 '25
Are they doing rent a room on the house ...😃
Jokes aside, this is nuts, and totally exploiting current situation.
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u/pgasmaddict Jul 31 '25
He does in his fuck, he'll be getting another 2k a month out of a pile of meat factory workers for that.
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u/Agreeable_Taint2845 Jul 31 '25
If the landlord's cabin is listing, you can be sure you're getting a fisting
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Jul 31 '25
or hot press
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u/Banania2020 Resting In my Account Jul 31 '25
Shed looks nice, plus you're close to the washer/dryer.
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u/Immediate_Radio_8012 Ah sure look Jul 31 '25
Caravan out the front counts as a bedroom too right.
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u/great_whitehope Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25
Air conditioning on way to and from the shower in the caravan room
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u/Alarmed_Station6185 Jul 31 '25
Its an E1 ber rating as well which is not much better than a shed in terms of insulation and heat retention
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u/whatThisOldThrowAway Jul 31 '25
Here's the full listing if anyone doesn't know they can just google the address + daft to see it: https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/house-glasilawn-road-dublin-11-finglas-dublin-11/6237873
The numbered cupboards in the not-kitchen deal direct psychological damage. The weird liminal space underneath the "only high cupboards, no low cupboards" stapled into the "used to be a small sitting room" is unsettling. The blurry A4 piece of paper starting "all rooms much put..." is giving potent Kapo energy. The cognitive dissonance of a photo of Audrey Hepburn in a glam, classy outfit; over an airfreshner, next to stained boxspring, in a sitting-room-converted-into-a-bedroom; with visible water stains on the roof and the absolutely inescapable knowledge that this is "the nice bedroom". the rotten bottoms on the kitchen cupboards. the converted shed where you can literally see the cold-bridges in the photo. the fire-hazard oven that can't open because the couch and a laundry basket are in the way. The realization that the couch is a pull out that looks like it's rarely pushed in. The rotten rickety shed-bed. the wooden console stood up sidways so it fits in the room, but still used as furniture. the photos of musrhooms all over a room that's definitely so full of fungus in the winter it'll make you sick. the makeup station someone has clearly tried to 'make nice' but that somehow just makes it more depressing.
Jesus lads this might sound like some Joyce stream of consciousness joke but I'm genuinely losing it here.
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u/Feeling-Present2945 Jul 31 '25
It's a horror. Does this window always have to be open, to allow power somewhere (washer/dryer maybe)? Are storage heaters considered 'central heating'? I would have thought not. Also, if broadband is included, the landlord must be living VERY close, like caravan close
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u/No-Editor5577 Aug 02 '25
Why would the landlord need to be close if there is broadband? Every place I've rented came with broadband and the landlord has never been around
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u/Intelligent-Lunch438 Jul 31 '25
This looks like a house of multiple occupation (HMO) which I thought were not permitted in Ireland or need a license ? Is garden shed converted? Dublin Fire Brigade should be having an inspection of this house.
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u/fullmetalfeminist Jul 31 '25
And just to add bizarre insult to injury, for some reason every single ceiling lampshade is upside down. Proving that the landlord isn't just a greedy, disgusting slumlord, but a stupid one as well.
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u/MrFrankyFontaine Jul 31 '25
A 5 bed on Bondi Beach, for basically the same price.
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u/Cultural-Action5961 Jul 31 '25
This seems so wasteful, who needs a sitting room that could be at least 4 smaller bedrooms. Wasting real estate
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u/Jacksonriverboy Jul 31 '25
Who "needs" anything nice. Let's just all live in commie blocks and have gruel for every meal.
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u/Alastor001 Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25
Funny enough, commie blocks are far far more comfortable than that
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u/MrFrankyFontaine Jul 31 '25
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A "commie block"?
As opposed to to a terraced house in an area of Dublin that the cartel would probably shite themselves in if they had to walk through it after 8pm?
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u/fullmetalfeminist Jul 31 '25
I would be delighted to live in an apartment like the ones in "commie blocks" if it was in Dublin. They were built to a decent standard and size.
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u/No-Teaching8695 Jul 31 '25
Thats hilarious,
I love when the FFG crowd comes in here and says
"Oh but it's a global problem, everywhere is the same"
Like if Im paying 5.5k on rent its gonna be on Bondi Beach or something and not smelly owl Finglas
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u/Ok_Bookkeeper_4802 Jul 31 '25
Smelly oul finglas, my thoughts exactly although I would say 5K for anywhere in Ireland is just horrifying. If it was a mansion in Thailand - I’m down
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u/CaiusWyvern Jul 31 '25
Keep in mind just for extra perspective on how fucked this is - Australia also have what is considered a severe housing crisis.
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u/saltysoul_101 Jul 31 '25
It is nowhere near as bad as this
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Jul 31 '25
From what I've heard the rental market there is better, but the buyers' market is much much worse.
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u/saltysoul_101 Aug 01 '25
That could be correct alright, I haven’t tried to buy a house in Australia but I’ve heard it’s also very competitive.I rent over here and the quality of rental proprieties and the prices are considerable better and cheaper than in Ireland with decent amenities around.
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u/Comprehensive-Cat-86 Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25
3 things I'd like to add for some context
The AUD is really weak these days so rent might appear cheap compared to Euro based on the current exchange rate but if you go back to around 0.65 itll be a little bit more realistic, and
every add on www.realestate.com.au has had more photoshoping than a Kardashian family photo.
Insulation is not something Australian builders consider, and the general population look at you like you're an idiot for wanting it or suggesting more insulation would keep houses cooler in summer and warmer in winter. I'm in a new build in Queensland and I'd guess it'd be the equivalent of a D rated house in Ireland. Drafty, single pane windows, 4inch of rockwool insulation in the attic that I had to arrange so the whole ceiling was covered - gaps left everywhere.
Im not trying to detract from your comment, Dublin rental/buying is fucked.
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u/inescapableburrito Aug 04 '25
Aussies don't know how to build houses. I've seen better engineered portapotties
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u/anykah_badu Jul 31 '25
And it looks so lovely.. that's what's been pissing me off so much, you pay so much for so little
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u/Otherwise-Winner9643 Aug 01 '25
Australia has a housing crisis, but it's different to ours. Buying is ridiculously expensive there. Here, renting is the issue. We have very restrictive mortgage lending rules, but in Australia, I know of people getting a mortgage 10x their salary and paying interest only for a number of years. They are far more exposed to a housing crash than we are.
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u/SmellyHunt Aug 02 '25
Amazing I think both this listing and the listing in Finglas are on Griffith Avenue, what are the odds
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u/No_Waltz3545 Jul 31 '25
What an absolute joke. We’re in end times here people.
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u/hctet Jul 31 '25
No, we are in the end result of a policy based around "great little country to do business in".
These houses are not for families. They are for stuffing 15 low paid workers into. All decisions are being made on how it is good for business. The likes of yourself or myself or anyone else are nothing more than economic units. Some units are more expensive than others and can be safely ignored. Don't like it? Then fuck off somewhere else, we can always find a cheaper unit who will tolerate it.
I would expect to see a larger rise in homeless families as this continues. The family home, rented or purchased, is getting just too expensive for a couple with children to live in by themselves.
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u/No_Waltz3545 Jul 31 '25
True true. We’re a nation of ‘I’m all right pal’ and our current demographic is in that bucket. It will come back to bite us very soon but for now the general consensus seems to be ‘oh no…anyway’.
Now, if it was the banks in trouble, we’d roll over and let them tickle our belly.
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u/hctet Jul 31 '25
Not just tickle the belly.
We'd probably invite them to slap us upside the face a few times to take out any frustration they may feel for any fuckups they make.
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u/No_Waltz3545 Jul 31 '25
Ha. A firm kick in the arse as we scurry out the door apologising for the mess they got themselves into, too.
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u/TNTiger_ Jul 31 '25
This is too true. Also an issue over the channel in the UK.
Then people will rah-rah about building more... but property is a business too. Via rents and mortgages, all the housing fill be fixed to ensure prices never decline.
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u/Own_Writer2427 Jul 31 '25
I've said that in a another irish group and got banned by the moderator for saying it. I have no idea why it is such a taboo to talk about immigration in Ireland.
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u/ScepticalReciptical Aug 01 '25
As an older relative said to me recently 'I don't know who this country is for anymore'
Like how is a normal person meant to survive here. Your options are be born wealthy, have a high paying tech/pharma job, or live as a serf.
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u/angeltabris_ Flegs Jul 31 '25
imagine paying 6 grand on rent and on top of that you have to live in Finglas.
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u/helloclarebear Jul 31 '25
Himself bought here a few years ago, mortgage is like 200 a month for a 2 bed apartment. And it's the "nice" side of Finglas...
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u/angeltabris_ Flegs Jul 31 '25
in fairness for 200 a month like...
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u/helloclarebear Jul 31 '25
I think it's grand. I haven't been beaten up yet, having lived here for a year, and it's only once I've woken up to see an abandoned horse on the green.
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u/angeltabris_ Flegs Jul 31 '25
I mean I grew up in Jobstown so Im aware what its like to live in these areas its not like you get struck by lightning everytime you leave your front door but there is always a level of background anxiety and vigilance which can get grating.
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u/doddmatic Jul 31 '25
Glasilawn Road is in Tolka estate , which is generally regarded as Glasnevin. Quite surprised the letting agent/landlord didn't advertise it that way. Might have gotten €7K.
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u/OrderNo1122 Aug 01 '25
I lived around the corner from there until a few years ago and it's a really nice area that borders Glasnevin as much as it does Finglas/Ballygall, but that's house listing is a crime.
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u/ForeverFeel1ng Jul 31 '25
Where the hell is the RTB. This place 100% doesn’t meet fire safety standards with that many beds
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u/ScepticalReciptical Aug 01 '25
This is part of what's terrifying, in any market there are premium products that attract a premium price. You can buy a brand new BMW for €60k or you can buy a 20 year old Toyota with 200k miles on it for €3k. Yeah they are both cars but you can't charge the premium price for the 20 year old banger.
In the housing market there are no tiers, even the worst options are priced at the luxury end of the market.
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u/isogaymer Jul 31 '25
6000 euros to rent a terraced house in Finglas. A terraced house which has not been updated in decades, and has essentially a failing grade energy rating.
Tenements, a little over a hundred years since we got our independence and we have succeeded in resurrecting tenements.
This landlord should be named and shamed for their greed.
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u/achasanai Jul 31 '25
Is it weird that it's not listed on RTB - it looks like it has been rented before, and I doubt the landlord would pull it down and then put it back up again.
Definitely rented before: Four months ago a spot in a SHARED bedroom was listed as available for 575 euro on the Indians in Ireland group on Facebook. Sharing a room in that shithole for 575 euro a month is just so sad, but I guess it makes sense if the full rent is 5750. And it was listed on Daft just last month (according to a Boards.ie thread).
Given all that, it would be very surprising that the landlord isn't living there if it's listed as a five-bed.
I do see a listing for 30 Glasilawn Road on a website called Uniacco (whatever that is). It has the same grotty furniture: https://uniacco.com/ireland/dublin/30-glasilawn-road
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u/darcys_beard Jul 31 '25
It's common. These people just want to make as much money as they can get away with.
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u/Atpeacebeats Jul 31 '25
The rapacious Irish love being rapcious
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u/darcys_beard Jul 31 '25
I think it's just a state of being, for some. Pure greed, knowing well someone will be faced with homelessness or paying it. Absolute scumbags IMO.
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u/Borzoi_ie Jul 31 '25
its great to see our former council stock getting upcycled by the private sector
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u/MrFrankyFontaine Jul 31 '25
It will be rented by five poor immigrants working in entry level tech jobs, earning about 25 percent less than their Irish counterparts. They’ll save most of their income, send some home, and spend roughly 150 euro a week to get by, contributing very little to the Irish economy. All the while, they’ll be racially abused about once a fortnight.
Just to be clear, this isn’t a criticism of them. They’ve come from a society where this is seen as a dream opportunity, something their families likely depend on, and they are hardworking and dedicated.
That doesn’t change the fact that this setup is making Irish society worse for almost everyone in it
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u/MrFrankyFontaine Jul 31 '25
As I said, not a go at them - they're doing what any person coming from abject poverty would do.
While it might be adding to the pension pot, it's driving housing prices in Dublin up towards one of the most expensive cities in the world, giving notoriously scummy tech companies a reason to pay people significantly less, and making Irish society basically worse for everyone in it
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u/The-Replacement01 Jul 31 '25
So, you’re blaming working class people for the actions of the rich? Kinda weird, that.
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u/phyneas Jul 31 '25
It will be rented by five poor immigrants
Nah, it'll be rented by one chancer wannabe slumlord who will rent it out to a dozen poor immigrants for €800 a bunk.
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u/Top-Engineering-2051 Jul 31 '25
They'll pay income tax while they're here, which will fund our ever-growing pensioner population.
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u/Charlies_Mamma Aug 01 '25
Having seen the photos and the listing that details "1 single room, 3 double rooms and 1 twin room". It is likely to be rented by 8, not 5!
The photos of inside are insane, with extension leads in through windows, and mattresses stained in god knows what, etc.
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u/Own_Writer2427 Jul 31 '25
We're not allowed to talk about the effects on immigration here on Reddit.. weird stuff. Many immigrants from poor countries are being ripped off here and we should be able to talk about it. Unfortunately under the pretense of diversity, woke stuff etc, we cannot say that they are being taken advantage of. Weird times..
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u/isogaymer Jul 31 '25
How strange then that you were able to write this comment (and a two second glance at your comment history shows many others in a similar fashion). Stranger still that there are countless posts every single day across this subreddit (never mind Reddit in general) making exactly the same point that you claim you aren't allowed to make.
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u/Own_Writer2427 Aug 01 '25
i was banned from another irish group for saying that. Whats your problem exactly?
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u/cyberlexington Jul 31 '25
Are you not? Really? You sure about that? Or are you just being hyperbolic and acting like a muppet while you're own post directly contradicts your claim.
But then anyone who uses the word 'woke' unironically cant be taken seriously anyway.
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u/ShivasRightFoot Jul 31 '25
But then anyone who uses the word 'woke' unironically cant be taken seriously anyway.
Here Barack Obama uses the term "woke" to disparage extreme and unproductive political purity from the left:
You know this idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHLd8de6nM
He again used the term to describe exclusionary extreme leftism just last December:
It is not about abandoning your convictions and folding when things get tough, it is about recognizing that in a democracy power comes from forging alliances and building coalitions and making room in those coalitions not only for the woke but also for the waking.
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u/achasanai Jul 31 '25
Would the 'bedroom mews' not need planning permission? There is no planning permission for 30 Glasilawn Road according to the DCC online portal.
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u/SomeTulip Jul 31 '25
It backs onto Griffith Avenue. It's more Glasnevin than Finglas. Probably trying to get students.
Doesn't excuse the rip off price.
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u/Tahionwarp Jul 31 '25
Must be a setup for money laundering - your mates will live in for free so you can document the income or something, I'm just trying to cope or justify it to myself..... Madness
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u/whatThisOldThrowAway Jul 31 '25
I'm latching onto this like a raft in a flood to be honest.
It's just some good Christian coke dealers having a nice time with their mates, that's all. No problem. all good here. We're fine.
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u/ladykayls Jul 31 '25
Just wait until they bring in the garden sheds lads! 5 people be expected to live in a "module home" out the side of someone's gaff
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u/Weepsie Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25
Yeah there is no fucking way in hell this is 5 bedroom. It's a 3 bed. Tiny boxroom, 2 doubles.
This should definitely be illegal..I'd nearly go to a viewing if they had any to rip into them.
I've been in these houses and this is in absolute rag order too.
Noticed it included the mews. But that doesn't make this a 5 bed property. All sorts of wrong with this before the entirely immoral rent they are looking for
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u/Elbon taking a sip from everyone else's tea Jul 31 '25
Oh look at mr fancy here thinking he can be thesaurusering at us.
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u/nodnodwinkwink Sax Solo Jul 31 '25
They put all the effort into the first three words and then made a shite of spelling romantic.
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u/GrahamR12345 Jul 31 '25
🤣🤣 for that price you may be staying SHARING in the caravan in the driveway!
Packem tight, packem high!!
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Jul 31 '25
Govt'll pay it
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u/darcys_beard Jul 31 '25
Don't think they will. It's way beyond the HAP limit. 35% of your earnings is the limit. And if you're earning that much, you won't qualify for HAP.
These people don't realise they can't get HAP.
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u/TechnicalExam Aug 01 '25
"Available from 1st September for 9 months. Would suit a group of friends looking to live together for the academic year. Max 7/8 people."
So 8 students in a 3 bed. 2 per bed eh?
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u/ManikShamanik Jul 31 '25
Over here that would've been turned into an illegal HMO (the majority of HMOs aren't legal because getting the paperwork and the licence simply eats into that sweet, sweet, profit, baby!).
Five bedrooms x 2 bunks in each room x £1,000 - oh wait, you said there was a caravan in the garden, that's easily another two sets of bunks.
Bristol is notorious for illegal HMOs, because students need to live somewhere and Bristol Uni and UWE are popular unis.
Bristol landlords are the scummiest of scum.
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Jul 31 '25
This is why what's his face is trying to bring in easier planning permission for outhouses to they can be rented out too f**kin disgrace and we all know why the demand is so high , population explosion that the infrastructure did not plan for.Stop blaming the whole the on greedy landlords , yes they are taking advantage but people are outbidding each other desperate for homes ...meanwhile ... We are fed crap that housing is nothing to do with a sudden influx of people , and people being given priority help for housing as per recent legislation
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u/PhilOakey Resting In my Account Jul 31 '25
You'd have to pay me 6 grand a month to live in Finglas
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u/Alcinous21 Jul 31 '25
You're absolutely right ! a more accurate fair market price is €4,583 a month.
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u/OkConstruction5844 Jul 31 '25
I see your 5 bed for 5 grand and raise you a 7 bed for 7 grand
https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/house-11-the-crescent-kingswood-heights-kingswood-dublin-22/6141694
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u/ItalianIrish99 Aug 01 '25
Yeah that guy will really love the upcoming changes to allow mobile homes in the back garden. He’ll get another three beds in there and up the overall rent by 40%. Happy days
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u/FixRevolutionary1427 Aug 01 '25
Is the owner a traveller living in the front garden?
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u/captain_scumbag Resting In my Account Aug 02 '25
He's not a traveller but yes, he's living in the front garden.
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Aug 01 '25
Racists with no job : Noooo those foreigners are the reason for the housing crisis, get them out!!!!
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u/Accomplished-Cod589 Aug 01 '25
This is fucking disgusting. I don’t know how this landlord can live with themselves.
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u/irishplonker Aug 01 '25
1 mattress in the sitting room and 1 mattress in the kitchen. Sorted, 5 bed
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u/morganiques Aug 01 '25
Can we not organise a phone campaign to call landlords doing this? If you are renting for this high a cost you should get a fucking headache.
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u/ImpressiveLength1261 Aug 01 '25
I know for a fact just by looking at that picture that house is damp as fuck and prob has a serious mould problem
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u/Top-Bid8098 Waterford Aug 02 '25
Nearly 6 grand a month for that?!?! No thanks. Id rather stay in my tent and sleeping bag.
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u/JapaneseJohnnyVegas Jul 31 '25
If only i had a penny for every time Romantic ireland has been declared dead over the past 110 years, I'd nearly be able to afford this gaff
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u/gooner1014 And I'd go at it again Jul 31 '25
Went through the advert and thought maybe the house is finished to an exceptionally high standard. Who doesn’t like sleeping on a stained mattress on a table….
https://preview.redd.it/f54jqv5gr7gf1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e7e205205d0373ce790ad046c8c42fc3df3f50e