Man was in tent for four years before he got apartment but Residential Tenancies Board says €1,400 monthly rent should have been €840
Man was living in tent for four years before he got apartment but Residential Tenancies Board says €1,400 monthly rent should have been €840The man was living in a tent for four years before he rented the apartment, but Residential Tenancies Board said €1,400 monthly rent should have been €840. Photograph: iStock
In his evidence, the tenant said, before he found the property on daft.ie, he lived in a tent for four years. He was offered the apartment but, after he inquired about applying for Housing Assistance Payment , was told it was now being offered to a relative of the landlord, he said. The RTB decided the last legally set rent in respect of the dwelling was €700 in early July 2015 and the man’s rent should have been set in accordance with that.
Noting the €11,654 represented a proportion of money paid by HAP, it said, once that sum is paid to the tenant, the appropriate proportion should be furnished to HAP. The landlord must also pay €250 for damages for breach of the landlords’ obligations under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 in respect of the tenancy.
In a separate case, the RTB upheld the validity of a notice of termination of tenancy served in March 2023 on a woman living with her son in a bedsit in Rathmines, Dublin, at a monthly rent of €1,295, since early 2020.
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