When you live renting, Landlords cannot prohibit tenants from receiving visitors, but sometimes guests can cause friction between them. This is what has happened in Ireland, where a landlord will have to pay 6,000 euros to a tenant after trying to terminate her contract several times due to her partner’s behavior and the inconvenience that, according to him, she was causing.
According to the Irish media The Irish Times, The conflict between this landlord and his tenant ended up in court because the owner claimed that he was worried about the visits of his tenant’s boyfriend to the home. And, as he argued, the couple had participated in several episodes of alleged antisocial behavior in the home.
As he explained, there had been serious incidents, including an alleged threat to set fire to the house and another episode in which blood and a knife were found inside. As a result of this situation, the landlord gave the tenant three notices to end the contract between March and May 2025.
The landlord wanted him to leave because of his partner’s behavior
The tenant acknowledged that her partner frequently came to the house and could stay there one or two nights a week, but denied that he lived permanently in the house. In addition, she explained that she herself had taken measures to avoid new problems and that she had obtained a court order limiting her partner’s access to the property.
This detail was important to the court, which considered that it showed that the woman did not approve or consent to the behavior that the owner reported.
The resolution indicates that the landlord may not like his tenant’s partner being in the home, but that this does not allow him to automatically hold her responsible for what happened. “It was the tenant who decided who could visit her in the home,” the decision states.
For this reason, the court concluded that the three termination notices sent by the owner did not have sufficient cause and that trying to prevent her partner from visiting her in her own home was an interference with the tenant’s right to enjoy the home.
He spent several days without water and ended up leaving voluntarily.
The conflict was also aggravated by a problem with the water supply. The tenant claimed that after the Easter weekend she ran out of water in the house and that the owner had previously threatened to cut it off.
The landlord explained that he had received a bill for 5,000 euros for a leak that affected both the agricultural land and the house and work had to be carried out to repair it.
During that period, the woman said that she had to go to relatives’ houses to bathe her children and bring water from there to even be able to flush the toilet.
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Finally, the tenant voluntarily left the home in August, but the court considered that her last months in the house had been affected by both the attempted termination of the contract and the lack of water and ordered the owner to pay her 6,000 euros in compensation for having failed to comply with his obligation to allow her to enjoy the home in a “peaceful and exclusive” manner.