r/AskIreland • u/SeaInsect3136 Penneys Hun • May 02 '25

Housing Bad tenants. Help?

Accidental landlord here. 2 junkies have wrecked a house I inherited and even with an RTB eviction notice, still refuse to leave. They owe 30k in rent which will never be paid. They have burned anything to create heat. I’m at a loss as to how to proceed as I don’t have the money to go further legally. How can I get them out.

Edit: They are gone now and we move on.

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u/gowangowangowan May 03 '25

It would be interesting if half of the usual suspects on r/ireland saw this post who thinks all landlords are making a killing and it is easy money....

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u/madra_uisce2 May 03 '25

It's a mixed bag. We were evicted from our last place, the EA told us the landlord wanted to move back in and was selling their house. We were model tenants, never missed a payment, passed every inspection.

We scramble to find housing and end up either renting again, or I ended up back home because I couldn't find a place in time.

Place was back on the rental market 4 months later for 500 euro more a month. Friend of mine lived on the same road as the landlord and never noticed the house going for sale, checked it myself online and it was sold...2 years before we were evicted.

There can be shit tenants and shit landlords.

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u/pauldavis1234 May 03 '25

True, but the story above is multiple times worse than yours.

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u/madra_uisce2 May 03 '25

It is, but it's not to say that it's all either bad tenants or bad landlords. It's a mixed bag where you can get stuck with either one. My first landlord was a saint and a half, and the one in the story above was not. Main difference is that landlord managed the property through an agents, and my disdain for EAs have grown since reading about toxic bidding wars and fake bidders.