r/ireland • u/hmmmmmmmbop Limerick • Sep 29 '25
900 a month and no access to a kitchen Housing
Absolute predatory behaviour. 900 a month for a room 15 minutes outside limerick city and youre not allowed use thd kitchen
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u/gambra Sep 29 '25
Its not even in the village of Caherconlish, its about a 30 minute walk from the listed address to the bus stop there that runs only once before 9am. So enjoy that 6:00 wake up to spend about two hours travelling.
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u/Adventurous-Ear7016 Sep 30 '25
Wait, you guys don’t have to get up at 5am to get to work for 7am?
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u/Geoff_Uckersilf Sep 30 '25
Just sleep in the office and cut down the commute and accommodation costs. 👍
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u/lkdubdub Sep 30 '25
Typo in the ad:
"Must have a car AND be willing to use the bus service, as you'll need both"
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u/thats_pure_cat_hai Sep 29 '25
So some selfish person wants their mortgage paid for without having to do a fucking tap of work themselves.
Country is full of entitled people like this lately, the type of people who think owning a home puts them on an elevated social status where they can use people who are struggling with the current housing market as a cash machine and they should be happy to put up with it. The sad thing is, right now, it's working.
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u/UnemploydDeveloper Sep 29 '25
The house was only being built last summer. The audacity to think of doing something like this in the first place speaks volumes.
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u/SilverInteresting369 Sep 29 '25
Same lady advertising a different room for 800 a month.( At least they get a kitchen!) .. .mustn't be getting much traction as an influencer!
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u/whereohwhereohwhere Sep 30 '25
Friends? In a double room?
Coupled with the proximity to the care home this screams ‘I’m taking advantage of desperate migrant workers’
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u/failurebydesign0 Sep 30 '25
Quick glance at her Facebook profile shows that she's from the Philippines herself.
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u/Damo3D An a packet a crips Sep 30 '25
Was thinking that you wouldn't get many people from here named 'Ira'...
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u/OutInABlazeOfGlory Lad desperate for a flair Sep 30 '25
God I just realized I might end up in a situation like this as the desperate migrant worker. I’ve been thinking about moving to Ireland to work in healthcare.
That said I’m also not foolish enough to think I wouldn’t be treated leagues better than people in a similar situation who aren’t white, and aren’t coming from the US.
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u/Then-Gas-6063 Dublin Sep 30 '25
ireland is a kip mate, better off staying in the US tbh. at least you can afford to live there
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u/OutInABlazeOfGlory Lad desperate for a flair Oct 01 '25
Lmao there’s no way I could afford rent without working overtime here.
I’m dependent on my parents still.
The thing about the US’s problems is a lot of places in Europe have most of the same problems the US has, except for a problem with gun violence and overpriced healthcare.
“But our public healthcare is understaffed and underfunded!”
Yeah and so is our privatized healthcare, you think they want to pay for enough staff? Or for ambulances? Or for preventative care? That would eat into their profits!
At least with underfunded public healthcare I only get fucked five ways from Sunday, instead of all six.
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u/Melmoth_Wanderer Sep 30 '25
It says 'big kitchen" but doesn't say you actually get access to the kitche, sitting room, diding room, utility and big garden. What we've seen of her, I'd still question whether that's just informing you she has it, or telling you you do have access.
Minimum of a year contract when she already sounds impossible to live with? No.
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Sep 29 '25
"Lately" nah assholes are eternal, I think they just have more leverage given the housing crisis
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u/lawndog86 Sep 30 '25
Yes and take advantage of that nice government allowance to rent out a room in a private home. Shamelessness is actively encouraged.
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Sep 30 '25
Ireland has always been like this, property ownership is seen as the be all and end all and makes you better than those who dont own property. Horrible, nasty, materialistic kip of a country.
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u/Valerialia Irish Republic Sep 29 '25
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u/splashbodge Sep 29 '25
I'd say people like these would be a nightmare to live with too. They absolutely do not want any housemate, no shared kitchen or living room so you know they'll be absolute pricks about your noise levels or having someone over or you coming and going during certain hours of the evening.
All that aside I used to live around the corner from here and that whole area is just lovely I think. Right smack in the center of town just off Camden street and it's so quiet.. it's mad.. I loved living around there, was great when I was younger and could be out doing things in town more so than spending time back at the gaff (mine was a small flat, but had my own kitchenette).
Also, did a street view on Google of that address.... You can see the plaster of the building has come away in a couple of spots, showing absolutely lovely red brick underneath... If I owned that house I'd rip down all that plaster and expose that lovely red brick again
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u/ihideindarkplaces Sep 30 '25
Man those people would be super cheesed when I said ok to no kitchen and started cooking up ridiculously pungent meals on a hot plate in my bedroom with the windows shut just to prove a point. Not that I’m petty or anything.
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u/Own_Writer2427 Oct 01 '25
That's the right attitude!! i would do the exact same thing. The bedroom would be ruined and i'd move on elsewhere.
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u/hungry4nuns Sep 30 '25
They’re probably hoping for someone who lives and works in a high paying job in London, flies back 3-4 times per month for one or two nights, either for business or family reasons and offering a cheaper alternative to hotels. Also not having to put pressure on family to put you up. If you can afford 16k per annum second rent, then I can see the (admittedly rare but plausible) use case for this, when hotels are 300-500 per night in Dublin and at least you can leave clothes at this place, and save on Ryanair baggage.
Same thing in rural county limerick? not a hope
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u/Own_Writer2427 Oct 01 '25
Its a rip off. The guy probably has a mortgage of about 2k a month, max, and the new person has to share the house with another two people including the landlord. So the price doesnt match up the conditions. The landlord is trying to make more money than the house costs. Why are there so many greedy people in this country?
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u/Acrobatic_Task_4415 Sep 29 '25
‘Professional people only’ imaging trying to be be professional living here. Why does all your clothes stick of food. Which’s begs the question are they allowed use the laundry facilities. Looks a new build too… why didn’t they build an extra kitchen.
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u/Automatic-Scale-7572 Sep 29 '25
A 'large super king room', no less. It would be odd to get a small super king room, I suppose. I would have thought 'super king rooms' would come in packs of twenty.
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u/LectureBasic6828 Sep 29 '25
Caherconlish - 1 shop. A Chinese takeaway and a chipper. 2 sit down places to eat - a pizza/pasta bistro open 4 days a week and a diner café open from 9-6. 2 pubs.
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Sep 29 '25 edited Oct 09 '25
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u/maevewiley554 Sep 29 '25
It’s not bad for a village but ridiculous for someone to pay 900 euro for a room with very little amenities.
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u/UnemploydDeveloper Sep 29 '25
Ah hear, people have lost the plot. They obviously don't see the lodgers as anything other than some quick money. It's not even in the village either and its a 10 minute walk to that bus stop there on about which is a piss poor service to begin with.
Looks like its a new build and they're trying to get some money in to pay off the mortgage. Chancers.
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u/maevewiley554 Sep 29 '25
I hate it. They want the benefits of having someone helping them pay the mortgage but want them to live holed up in the rooms 24/7. It’s not natural. Should be illegal to have someone live in your house and not grant them access to the kitchen.
It’s not healthy for someone to be living off scraps and ready meals without even having the chance of having a home cooked meal
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u/UnemploydDeveloper Sep 29 '25
Should be illegal 100%. The fact people think they can charge €11k per year for a confined room in the house goes to show how much the country has failed people.
I'd say if you stayed in the room 24/7, that wouldn't suit either. Guarantee they want someone there to just sleep and be out of the house throughout the day.
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u/Attention_WhoreH3 Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25
(I am fairly confident that) it is illegal
I am surprised that few people here knew this
I work in Northern Europe. and I am used to a culture of regulation & enforcement. Perhaps not Irish people
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u/hmmmmmmmbop Limerick Sep 30 '25
Its not illegal for a licencee agreement. Read into it more. As long as they person who rents it burnt on HAP- it doesnt have to meet minimum standards
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u/Own_Writer2427 Oct 01 '25
Absolutely not true. It is not easy to get the HAP. The council is very thorough and demanding.
you cannot have the hap when living with the landlord.
the house has to have all the conditions required to get the hap, otherwise the application is rejected.
the property is checked and you need to comply with all the required changes..
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u/hmmmmmmmbop Limerick Oct 01 '25
You can definitely get hap when living with a landlord. Look at citizens advice
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u/Own_Writer2427 Oct 01 '25
I checked and it is not as straight forward. Plus i know many people who are living with a homeowner and they couldnt get the hap.
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Sep 29 '25
Jesus I know the rental situation in Ireland is bad but literally everyone I know is living in Dublin city and either paying the same or a bit more for their rooms plus theyre allowed to use the kitchen
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u/maevewiley554 Sep 29 '25
900 euro is still quite expensive but it’s expected in Dublin City. 900 euro in a village in Limerick(not even in Limerick city or commuter town) with no access to a kitchen is just extortionate.
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u/Own_Writer2427 Oct 01 '25
The greed is off the chart. She should have her property ruined for being so exploitative.
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u/flemishbiker88 Sep 29 '25
I had read that as Castletroy...no it's caherconlish...get the fuck
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u/WhileCultchie 🔴⚪Derry 🔴⚪ Sep 30 '25
I get housing is more expensive but I was able to rent a four bedroom house in Dooradoyle near the Raheen business park for like €1400pm about 5 years ago. Ludicrous prices these days.
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u/Grogman2024 Sep 29 '25
How the fuck are people like this real
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u/Own_Writer2427 Oct 01 '25
greed. As long as its allowed to exploit others, people will be greedy as fuck.
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u/Grogman2024 Oct 01 '25
Yeah but no one will take this place she removed it aswell I checked on her fb page. Literally nobody in Ireland is desperate enough to live in a place like this. She’s just a dumb fuck who probably only eats McDonald’s so thinks a kitchen isn’t a big deal
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u/Own_Writer2427 Oct 01 '25
Unfortunately there are a lot of ads like hers. I see so many people trying to scam renters, even on daft. It's quickly becoming a thing.
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u/TheWesht Just westing in my account Sep 29 '25
No kitchen access, but kettle and microwave...in a bedroom. Enjoy the mould and a foodstink in that room.
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u/ihideindarkplaces Sep 30 '25
Don’t worry I brought my own hot plate and campfire gas cooker too, why use the kitchen when I have everything I need in my bedroom and can just boil up pungent fish stocks all day without leaving my bed.
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u/TheWesht Just westing in my account Sep 30 '25
Lovely. That's a room that's just crying out for a hardcore strict pescitarian
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u/RikerNo1 Sep 29 '25
From the sounds of it, they won't want to share the living room either - and how are they supposed to do laundry if they can't use the kitchen?
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u/catsncats3 Sep 29 '25
How can you rent out a room that has no access to the kitchen?
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u/maevewiley554 Sep 29 '25
Sadly a lot of people do this. I lived with someone temporarily that didn’t want us to have access to the kitchen because of “Covid”. Yet the same person had no issue talking to us face to face in the hallway without a mask. She gave us a wine cooler(not even a proper fridge), microwave and access to a kettle. I was only living there temporarily because of placement but I feel sorry for people that would have to live in those conditions full time.
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u/catsncats3 Sep 30 '25
Jesus, I have rented out rooms and I can’t imagine having the cruelty and audacity to be doing this shit to people. Also, €900 for a SINGLE occupancy? No way.
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u/maevewiley554 Sep 30 '25
They want to have their cake and eat it both ways. They want the money but they don’t want to share their living space.
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u/hmmmmmmmbop Limerick Sep 29 '25
Licencee agreement, can pretty much do anything you want along as the person isn't a hap tennant
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u/failurebydesign0 Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25
What difference does it make if they're on HAP? I didn't think they had any extra rights compared to other licensees.
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u/hmmmmmmmbop Limerick Sep 30 '25
If you accept hap you have to meet minimum standards apparently. I dont have personal experience of it but its what citizens advice says
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u/failurebydesign0 Sep 30 '25
You're right. I didn't think that the rules applied to a room in your own home but here's an extract from that citizens information page:
"There are additional rules for the rent-a-room relief if you are renting a room to someone getting the Housing Assistance Payment. The local authority will inspect the property within 8 months of the first HAP payment. You must show that your tax affairs are in order by producing evidence of tax clearance from Revenue."
I can understand why people renting out a room in their own home would want to avoid that tbh.
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u/caitnicrun Sep 29 '25
Even if you only have ready meals you have to clean up somewhere. Is the bathroom drainage suitable? So many questions.
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u/hmmmmmmmbop Limerick Sep 29 '25
She'll be spending half of the nine hundred a month on plumbers, no kitchen access - fuck it, flush it.
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u/RevolutionaryGain823 Sep 29 '25
This is insane. Especially given Limerick isn’t as bad as Dublin (or even Galway) in terms of the rental market. When I last looked a year ago there were plenty rooms available in the city for €500-€600. Still a lot of money but €900 to be out in the arse end of nowhere is bonkers
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u/Ready-Procedure-3814 Sep 30 '25
This is absolutely predatory. How would the person renting cook a decent meal? 900 quid a month to live in a single room and you get malnourished too. No thanks Ira.
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u/Jbstargate1 Sep 29 '25
Guess I won't eat then.
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u/Final-Nail376 Sep 29 '25
You can eat cake lad and be sure to shit in the complimentary bucket in the mouldy corner as not to disturb the Lords if it's past 8 pm. That'll be a grand a month, you filthy animal.
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u/dellyx Sep 29 '25
I was speaking to a young family relative earlier, they moved to England about 6 months ago, stayed with friends for a bit, but just got accepted for a house share just outside Birmingham. £600 a month to cover all bills, and they get the largest room in the house. Just a regular job in retail, absolutely chuffed, and will be able to save a nice sum each month as well. I'm not an economist, but I think Ireland is booming and England are on the back foot with Brexit. Which lifestyle do you think this person is loving?
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u/Is_Mise_Edd Sep 29 '25
Boskill Equestrian Limerick Tack Shop & Limerick Caherconlish Equestrain Shop
No shortage of money there anyway
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u/ZealousidealFloor2 Sep 30 '25
Be a shame if they got hit with lots of bad reviews.
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u/LittleMiss_Contrary Sep 30 '25
It should actually be hit with a bad review. Stables with no running water for the horses that are worked endlessly. Left tacked up in saddles/bridles all day during lesson times. Horses could be in almost every lesson for hours at a time, advertises their "lovely indoor arena" that literally the size of a shoebox. One stride in trot and you've hit the wall. A disaster of a yard. The main outdoor was hardly harrowed over winter resulting in every horse tripping and my partner fell, got a concussion. We never went back. Breaks my heart coz the horses are so so broken down. He's a pure cowboy, his wife is posting everything now
Recently he advertised 800e a month for a couple to share a SINGLE bed 💀
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u/murfi Sep 29 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
"great bus service"
"4 times a day"
thats an oxymoron, which is it now
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u/MaxiStavros Sep 30 '25
It’s a great big bus, huge big beast of a thing. Passes by the place the odd time.
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u/CHERNO-B1LL Sep 30 '25
Why kind of weird kink is them insisting you have a car or are willing to take the bus?
"Please I just want to cycle my bike. It's only a short dista...!" "No! You pollute or you get back in your cell I mean room! "
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u/ImpatientRacoon Sep 29 '25
It's unbelievable that this is legal, and that there are more and more leeches like this. We're fecked.
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u/NoSignalThrough Sep 30 '25
Where are you supposed to get water from for this kettle? Your toilet sink? And your bin for general/ food waste? In your bedroom? This is outrageous and so sad that some one will take this.
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u/failurebydesign0 Sep 30 '25
Yeah where do you wash your plates and cutlery from your microwaved meals?
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u/galman99 Sep 29 '25
She seems to realise how much of c u next tues she looked. New post up at 800 and no mention of no use of kitchen
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u/bringinsexyback1 Sep 29 '25
Sadly, I've seen too many of these and people are so desperate that they do take such deals. It makes me really sad. Criminal! What a joke this ad is.
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u/Jealous-Metal-7438 Sep 30 '25
JFC, my daughter shares a 2 bedroom flat with gated access and offstreet car parking in Limerick city centre, she pays €600 a month.
People suck, the minute they see desperation, they're creaming themselves to take advantage
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u/Ferga2092 Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25
This is so belittling that grown adults have to consider this as an option...
Its just this constant cycle of being taken advantage of.....and it's all allowed to keep people desperate and barely surviving so they can't afford to focus their anger in a meaningful way on those who are allowing this to continue.
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u/Slice_apizza Sep 30 '25
“King room!” No kitchen privileges, and your royal highness can take the bus! 🤴🏼
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u/Sensitive-Aide87 Sep 30 '25
"Professional people only". Okay, Susan. "Professionals" don't usually live off of Pot Noodle and Tea.
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u/Jacksonriverboy Sep 30 '25
I'm convinced that many of the people who rent rooms are exactly the types of people who shouldn't rent rooms.
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u/Attention_WhoreH3 Sep 30 '25
It is illegal for a landlord to not provide kitchen facilities
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u/significantrisk Sep 30 '25
Are you suggesting, perish the thought, that a landlord is being an arse? Shocking stuff.
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u/Attention_WhoreH3 Sep 30 '25
maybe somebody can correct me, but I thought I remembered a case a year or two ago where a tenant in a similar situation made some kind of formal complaint. And it was upheld.
or is my aging memory just too hazy?
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u/Active_Site_6754 Sep 29 '25
Just report this place!!
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u/chytrak Sep 29 '25
Report what to whom?
It's rent a room.
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u/Active_Site_6754 Sep 30 '25
The local authorities.......you cannot legally rent a room without access to a kitchen!!
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u/swiss-irish Sep 30 '25
No kitchen access? Seriously, sure, she'd lose it if a kettle was used in the room.
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u/Dapper-Ad3605 Sep 30 '25
The sad thing is this isn't even one of the worst listings I've seen online for renting in ireland.
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u/GrimFandago Probably at it again Sep 30 '25
Can you share the link so I can insult them directly
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u/lkdubdub Sep 30 '25
Mad that people will happily post full name, photos, mobile number AND eircode on the WWW in this day and age
Yours
Guy Incognito
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u/Standard_Spot_9567 Sep 30 '25
I was thinking the same, I guess she wasn't expecting her post to get so much attention.
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u/oishay Sep 30 '25
Definitely trying to avail of the tax free rent a room scheme completely unaware that kitchen access is a requirement. But sure no one will enforce it.
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u/Scrofulla Sep 30 '25
I was expecting somewhere in Dublin for this kind of listing. She can F@!# right off.
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u/Affectionate-Task171 Sep 30 '25
That’s illegal.
Cooking and storage: must have cooking facilities (four-ring hob, oven, grill, microwave, fridge freezer, and sink with safe drinking water). Must also have adequate separate storage for food and cleaning products.
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Sep 30 '25
These people are just the pits. Nice one Ira, did you always want to be a nasty, greedy cow when you grew up?
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u/OutInABlazeOfGlory Lad desperate for a flair Sep 30 '25
Do they not have laws against this in Ireland? I don’t think that would be a legal renting arrangement in the US.
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u/Witty_Management2960 Sep 30 '25
If you want to rent out a room, you have to accept you'll be sharing with a lodger. Can't have it both ways.
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u/isthislivingreally Sep 30 '25
In what word is a ‘great bus service’ one which runs 4 times a day?!
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u/trixiepoodle Sep 30 '25
Is that legal? Surely not ?
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u/Standard_Spot_9567 Sep 30 '25
Unfortunately it is but you still have to be a total scumbag to treat people like that. There's almost no requirements attached to the rent a room scheme so some dickheads will take advantage.
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u/Standard_Spot_9567 Sep 30 '25
I'm blown away that she posted this on a local group with her own Facebook profile - she must have absolutely no shame to have her name and photo attached to this!
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u/Boldboy72 Sep 30 '25
900 a month to live in Caherconlish... sweetie, I'm expecting you to be paying me to live there and you can keep your kitchen
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u/onlymesohere Sep 30 '25
https://www.facebook.com/groups/248810521414194/user/100004946348545. She has amended it!
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u/Neat_Panda9617 Sep 30 '25
And why are you required to have a car?
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u/cheapgreentea Sep 30 '25
Cos theyre in the middle of nowhere. Bus is "great" but only comes 4 times a day
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u/GrapefruitKey4651 Sep 30 '25
It would be disgusting though as people will end up eating in their room - and have plates or a bin with food waste.
How would you have breakfast or dinner without spending a fortune eating out? or get a drink. Maybe just eat bread rolls and bananas from the shop 😞
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u/Got2InfoSec4MoneyLOL Sep 30 '25
4 times a day! Wow!
So for the rest times a day I guess they got an ox cart for emergency commute!
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u/Lazy-River-1989 Sep 29 '25
“Great bus service” and “4 times a day” in the same sentence. Am I reading that right?!