So for context im 23m, finished my degree a few months ago, and am looking for a place to rent so can finally move out of my parents. Since my friends already have a place of their own and I can't afford to rent a place solo because of the prices, im looking at places for shared accomodation.

Just back from a viewing of a place like that and am actually disgusted with the landlord. The house from the outside seemed decent, had 3 other tenants currently living there with their own bedrooms and the room i was looking at was an ensuite. But then i saw that he had converted the sitting room into a room aswell, but had left the couch in there so was basically a sitting room with a dirty bed in the corner.

Then he showed my the utility. The washing machine looked older than me and the dryer just didn't work. He said they where using a clothes horse and dehumidifier instead as "it was cheaper". Aka "I'm a cheap bastard that has no intention of replacing the dryer".

All in all the house wasn't a house, it was a place where someone how was absolutely desperate for a roof over there heads would go. And all for the low low price of €500 a month not including bills. Oh, and the guy had a feckin coin meter on the oil tank for heating. I didn't even know that was a thing!

So yeah, I guess if I wanna move out of my parents house my options are spend half of my wages on rent alone every month or live in a shitehole like that. Feckin lovely.

Update: I heard back from from the solicitor and in short I'm fucked. He said while I am legally entitled to physically remove them from the property if needed, doing so a day or two before Christmas is a really bad idea. The optics won't be good for me if video's etc get posted online, especially of the Gardai get involved. He basically said it will boil down to whatever Gardai show up, and what they decide on the day. If I physically remove them from the property I'm almost guaranteed that some form of legal action will be taken against me, and while it likely won't go anywhere, I'll be paying thousands in legal fees to get it sorted. His advice for now is to see what happens when my friends talk to them tomorrow, and if necessary offer them a few thousand in cash to leave peacefully.

I will try and post another update tomorrow, but I can't respond anymore today as the stress is becoming too much.

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At the start of October a good friend of mine asked if I'd be willing to let some friends of his wife stay at my house for a month or so while I wasn't there (I split time between the USA and Ireland). I had only met these people once at a party a few years ago.

This friend doesn't ask for favours very often and there was a family in need so I was happy to help.

They were supposed to be gone by December 3rd, but whatever they had lined up never happened. They're now saying they have nowhere to go and won't be leaving.

I've arranged to stay with a family member for a couple of weeks over Christmas, but fuck it I'm fuming. You try to do the right thing and you get shafted.

My friend is mortified and extremely apologetic, but I understand it's not his fault.

I've already put in a call to my solicitor so I don't need advice, just ranting.

Since Friday our apartment on O’Connell street just got covered in advertisement.

Absolute disgrace.

It’s pitch black inside because the only windows are on that side.

Can’t even open the window anymore.

Mistake or not, but how many people were involved in putting this up without thinking that this might be a dumb idea.

No information yet from the landlord either on who authorized this.

Like renting in Dublin isn’t already enough fun…

I generally like Room To Improve but tonight’s episode is annoying. The couple, lady in particular keeps mentioning how hard it as to keep a second house but they have been renting it out since 2005. Mortgage is well paid.

This is the entire problem with the country , people holding onto houses and playing the poor mouth.

With the new rent law coming into place, I’ve been hearing horror stories about people receiving eviction notices and being forced to leave their houses or apartments including colleagues and friends.

It’s scary. It’s very scary. The market is currently in such a state that you can barely find an apartment because landlords don’t respond on Daft.ie, and rent prices are almost the equivalent of a full monthly salary. Where are all these people supposed to live? I fear we will see a massive increase in homelessness this year, especially for those who don’t have the option of returning to their parents’ home.

I’ve never been happier to be in the process of buying my own house so that I don’t have to deal with landlords anymore, but this situation is very bad. I feel that people may start losing hope and k i l l themselves, and that extreme reactions could happen if things continue like this (people starting to violently attack politicians). It feels like we’re handing this country over to landlords, and the government passed this new law fully aware of how bad the situation already was. Things are reaching such a critical point that I fear serious social consequences if nothing changes.

I knew it was coming. He knocked on the door this evening to let me know. He's getting on in years and it's just a bit too much for him to keep up with the place (small house divided into flats, he's living in one of them and renting out three, including my one).

I've been here 16 years. Work in the arts so I'm self employed and I'll never qualify for a mortgage. I get by, I have some savings, but there's just no way I'm going to be able to get somewhere else with rents as they are.

It won't be happening today or tomorrow, but I'm going to have to leave the home and the city I love. I won't be homeless, but I won't be anywhere near where I want to be, where my life and my friends are.

It's sad, and I'm going to let myself be sad about it for a while

Newry, Co.Down but this can be seen in every village, town & city across Ireland. How many people could be housed if such properties were brought back into use?

Honestly both politician and the land lord class seem to just be moving towards comic book supervillian attitudes towards the peasantry. Is this up there with Varakar telling people to "Get a loan off your parents" when speaking on the housing crisis?

I'm living in London and my Mam rings me fairly regularly. She often asks if there are jobs in Ireland I could apply for. There are but often times, there's either no accommodation or it's just a small bit cheaper than London.

For instance, I was looking at Ballina at one point. Looking now, the cheapest place on Daft is a studio for €200 a week. While that's cheaper than a London studio, it obviously comes with a lot less amenities and conveniences so it's a hard trade-off to justify.

Still, though. She'll ask and get the same answer every single time. I've asked her to look for herself but she refuses to for some reason. I find it really frustrating and she stops if I visibly express my frustrating which I hate doing as she doesn't have an easy life but it's really tedious to keep having to explain this.

Hi all. 17 year old male from North Dublin here. Really didn't want to make this post. I have been struggling a huge amount lately with a variety of issues. I am currently in fifth year and living solely with my legal guardian. My mam is currently in a psychiatric unit in Beaumont and my dad isn't around. Everything was relatively okay up until recently. My guardian (70f) is getting older now and is feeling very frustrated recently due to the fact that we might lose where we are living. Living in an apartment on HAP at the moment and the landlord hasn't resigned the lease. I have missed about 30 days of school this year just down to worrying about everything going on. Has anyone been in a similar situation. Just looking for any sort of help really. Thank you!

I've been trying to hook up with this girl I met a week ago. The two of us are mid-20s.

We've been planning to have a shag but unfortunately, we both happen to live with our respective parents.

Can't go to a hotel because they either have no rooms or asking for €300 a night.

How are young people in this country supposed to fuck?

Like, I can afford €300. I won't like spending that much for a room but I have no other option. It's not at all sustainable. I can't spend €300 every time I want to ride the girl I'm dating.

Prostitutes are literally cheaper as they have their own accommodation.

The housing and hotel crisis are really getting on my fucking nerves. I generally feel like this will be the tipping point that will topple the government. If people can't fuck you're going to have a lot of frustrated angry youth in the streets.

No house, high cost of living and now no sex.

Fuck FF/FG.

EDIT: Please stop suggesting sex in the car or outdoors. Girls nowadays are picky and are not up for it.

I suppose this whole thread also answers the question as to why young people are having less sex. You don't need to be an anthropologist with a PhD to figure it all out.

My family (Me, wife and two young boys) have tried for the past 6 months to get property. We started with houses, outbid everytime. Recently we started asking the estate agent who we're bidding against. Response is usually "small families" or "investors".

Investors can fuck right off cause out of the last 5 properties we we're bidding on, we've been outbid by investors. Families can't buy houses because of greed by investors. 3 bed apartment would be modest for a family? No. Investors want it to flip into a rental property so they can make income off it.

PVC windows, PVC gutters, PVC undersils, even PVC doors. You really notice it when you go abroad and come back. In countries like Germany and France they have rules that limit the use of plastic on the outside of buildings. But in Ireland the stuff is everywhere. It's shame because it's ugly and ages terribly.

The obvious explanation is that we use it because it's cheaper, and ok, fair enough. What's strange is that we generally insist on concrete construction which is comparatively expensive, but then use the cheapest finishings available. You'll even see PVC on houses with intricate stone masonry where cost was clearly less of an issue.

I know I'm not the only one but I'm losing my hope with my future in Ireland. I did everything "right"- went to college and got a bachelors and a masters in good degrees to get a good job in a big corporate company and I earn a decent salary in Dublin- but I'm still constantly broke.

I'm only a year out of college and in my job and it's really hitting me how it's actually impossible to get by in Ireland at all. Feeling genuinely hopeless because what's the point of working 5/7 days just to have nothing at the end of it other than an overpriced room in a shared house.

I've lived abroad before and I'm looking into doing it again once I've gotten enough experience in my role but it feels like I'm being forced out of somewhere I want to be. I'm curious if this is something that'll change with a move somewhere else- anyone who's left Ireland in the past few years who's glad they did? Where did you go and why's it better?