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A LETTING AGENCY in Dublin has joined the market with a new and friendly approach – offering tenants a financial reward if they keep a property in good condition.
Tenant Ready has been in operation since the beginning of last month but Conor Battigan, the brains behind the operation, has been working in the area for a number of years.
As well as paying the Private Residential Tenancies Board registration fee for landlords, Battigan’s agency will cover the cost of a financial incentive for tenants who take care of the properties they rent.
“I’ve been in the property business for over 10 years in different guises, I also am a tenant and have a property that I let out,” he explained. “Over the years, I’ve found that if you’re rewarding people instead of threatening to take away part of their deposit, people are more likely to work with you.”
Amid rising rental prices, in a landlord’s market, Battigan decided it was “time for a change”.
Under his reward scheme, tenants who look after their property and abide by their lease will get 5% of a month’s rent back at the end of the year.
Right now I have a family renting a four-bed house and every 12 months they get €100.
“It’s a win-win situation. The tenants are happy because they feel appreciated and the landlord is happy because if a tenant leaves after 12 months there’s very little work to be done in terms of redecorating.”
Tenant Ready has 45 properties on its books at the moment and Battigan said he is confident that other agencies will follow suit with their own reward schemes when they realise how beneficial it can be.
This Trump lad is as mad as a bag of spanners.
Lee , we have yet to see if Republicans at large are as daft.
Not as bad as ted Cruz looks like another George Bush war monger
Problem is is that he keeps rising in the polls with every absurd thing he says! Paul Kruger sums it up well, “At this point panic is what the right is all about, and the republican nomination will go to whoever can most effectively channel that panic”.
Trump is an ideas man and this is another terrific idea. Muslim values are not American values.
Hmm WrathCheney Trump hates Dick Cheney etc .. LOL
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True Rory they are a strange bunch alright like that brain surgeon claiming that the pyramids were grain silos.
Can american people really that stupid to support this fool ? I am wondering are they only keeping him up in the rations so he won’t drop out of the race in order to see what will be the next stupid thing he says. Best comedy show ever.
I think WOC believes he still lives in the crusaders era
Yeah wrath, such a terrific idea that Trump himself has backtracked on it, probably after his advisors had a hairy conniption.
Congress makes all the decisions before Republic and Democrats. Anything to get the voter’s attention. Lies and more lies from the Walter Mitty sham of a Government.
When you have a policy proposal only previously used by Hitler, you tend to scare off even the most conservative of conservatives.
Bad comparison, the Jews were no threat, Muslims are.
Adolf convinced the German people, falsely, that Jew were a threat, financially and racially.
Pat no convincing needed when it comes to the barbarian moslems.
Pat Morrissey Martin Luther leader of the Reformation influenced the Nazis///
W.O.C. no pub tonight ?
@ W. O. C ” Muslims are a treat” That is exactly what ISIS want you to think you fool. Their logic been if the west declare a war on all muslims like the fool Trump wants they ISIS think that all muslims would have no choice but to fight along with ISIS.
Muslim certainly are not a treat James.
@ W.O.C. No they are NOT. ISIS are false muslims and yes they are a serious threat. More so of a threat to to the syrian muslims then the are to the west. Which is evident in the fact that thousands of muslims are risking their lives and the lives of their children and thousands have died crossing the mediterranean sea as they run for their very lives.
The people with the money are always a threat Money can buy anything Ask Benji in tel avi
The vast majority of victims of Daesh are Muslims. Muslims are not the enemy, just Daesh.
A journalist asked him how his proposal would be different from The Nazis registry of Jews during the holocaust… He couldn’t come up with an answer or didn’t want to risk being caught out saying something that shows him as completely ignorant of history.
So he shouted ‘you tell me’ over and over… And then refused to answer any more questions.
He’s not just ignorant of history, he’s ignorant of his own country’s constitution. Not good qualifications for a wannabe president.
He also believes that POTUS has unlimited power and can make unilateral decisions without having to get them past either Congress or SCOTUS .He doesn’t even seem to know how US government works.I thinks he actually believes it’s equivalent to that of absolute monarch.
If this guy gets voted in I will lose all faith in humanity
If this guy gets voted we will all want to love to Australia, or as far bloody away from the US as we can cos anything caught in the crossfire will just be fair game!
He can’t. There’s no way he’ll win the republican nomination
@The Normal One: Don’t forget that the Republicans are also as mad as a bag of spanners!
Trump was leading in the the polls in Iowa (before this came out) – and I don’t think that this idea will put off any potential Trump voters. Remember – he has already called Mexicans rapists, and has a plan to make Mexico build a wall on the border.
The first 3 states with primaries are Iowa (lots of old white people), New Hampshire (lots of old white people) and South Carolina (lots of white racists). He wins these – and he has momentum for the rest of the primaries.
This is what happens when the likely voters are a load of old white people – who get all their “news” from Fox – which has spent the past 2 decades trying to scare the shite out of them by telling them the darkies are coming to take their jobs, live on welfare, sell drugs and rape them, while pouring sugar into their gas tanks.
I do think however that as we approach closer to the election the serious republicans begin to look a who is winnable rather than we personally appealed to them previous. However Clinton accepted money from trump so trump would do well in a televised debate.
Newsflash for paid shill FOX NEWS dont like TRUMP . I think you will find alot of blacks like what trump has to say . Obama has forgotten about the black people of america .And what with the” old white people ” why are you hating on them ?
This man is as mad as a box of frogs, can you even begin to imagine this imbecile having access to nuclear weapon codes..
Mad, but popular.
He’s even popular on this site, given the amount of green thumbs his supporters are getting.
There’s a handful of right wing nuts on here . Each with about 5 different accounts.
This suggestion of his just defies belief, I am absolutely astonished he’s said this. Never mind how it contravenes the First Amendment (and we all know how the Tea-bagger Conservative Right adore the Constitution, especially for the protection of their guns) but any Jewish bodies should be screaming for his head on a block when this suggestion is compared to Nazi Germany’s registration of Jewish people. This is beyond believable.
The right only love the constitution when it suits them. These are the people who managed to have slavery and segregation despite what is in the constitution.
Paid shill that exactly what you are . The repubs did away with slavery but dont let history get in the way of your left migrant loving agenda . Read and learn http://thelastcivilright.org/2012/08/19/the-democrat-party-vs-the-republican-party-who-is-the-true-champion-of-the-ending-slavery-the-civil-rights-movement-and-the-black-community/
Trump has actually made a net loss over his lifetime from where he started off. He was born into a business empire his father created. He knows nothing about building or creating wealth and that needs to be called out more often.
Really “he knows nothing” . Considering he funding this election himself .
Trump is an exponent of the politics of fear. He appeals to the basest of instincts.
Trump would be electable in Ireland. He would find FG values compatible with his own. We love our billionaires in Ireland and we give them tax free holidays.
The politics of fear Fiona, have been the American way for years, since they discovered during the ‘reds in the bed’ McCarthy era, that it’s useful. Since then the Americans have always had a big,bad public enemy number one, from ghadaffi to bin laden to Saddam, and now public enemy number one is not an individual but followers of a particular religion. Land of the free my arse
Here was the best response to this ghoul
Trump’s proposals would appeal to our anti-refugee panic merchants.
They are on here cheerleading already Fiona
William Boyd / Sertorius / Joachin Peiper/ Vladimir Vasyectomy / Avina Laaf / gkrell / Patrick J O’CONNOR etc must be all in the same pub planning how to get Trump elected and get a Muslim database set up in the Republic of Ireland .. hope they do not drink too much whiskey and do something stupid
They are working out how to design a hybrid of Trump and DOB.
He somehow makes sense in a general view, not just Muslims, but every single one who is granted asylum should be vetted. Normally this is the case, but there are corners being cut for Syrian refugees due to the immense number of refugees, ISIS knows it and is using that flaw to infiltrate Jihadists posing as refugees. ISIS have said it in many occacions, and so far ISIS have managed to keep their word.
Saul Goodman, you love to serve the Daesh panic agenda, don’t you.
Ass clown
When trump has stirred up all the liberal bend over and do me from behind lefties, both in this country and in the US, he is definitely on the right course. The polls agree with him no matter what certain spinless media comminators would have the US public think
Uh oh Trump supporters are very secretive .. I wonder why ?
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Every single GOP candidate is either incompetent on a basic human level, insane, or both! I hope one of them gets elected.
Many FG supporters would find Trump’s prejudices quite mild.
Sure all the Muslims need to do is stop believing in the barbaric religion. They then won’t be on the registry. Problem solved
If Trump wins, rest assured I will be moving to your country. Enda Kenny can’t be THAT bad, can he?
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