Residential property management is all about ensuring the upkeep and maintenance of your property to a decent standard. It is also about ensuring all the mundane, but vital tasks are administered in a correct and timely manner. We can act on behalf of you the owner to lift away the worries and hassle of complex and time consuming tasks. Management of income producing properties brings different challenges everyday. As an owner, this can be overwhelming and tiresome. Having a professional property management team handle your rental asset, will enable you to invest money, but not lose time and sleep keeping up with the day to day tasks property maintenance involves. We gladly accommodate clients who are hands-on, hands-off, or somewhere in between. Our goal is to provide you, the property owner, the security and the comfort of worry-free rental property ownership at an affordable price. According to the needs of our clients, dublinlettings.com can provide a number of different types of management services to landlords. The level of service you require will determine our fee rate. Charges are based upon a set percentage of the rent collected. Please see our service check list. 24/7/365 Contact In the event of emergency our offices can be contacted twenty - four hours per day. Our emergency contractors are available to attend to specified emergency call outs at all times of the day or night. Non - emergency calls will be attended to promptly by our office on the next working day. Our branches are open from 8.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday. Rental payments and Arrears We will collect your rent and handle appropriate notices. Evictions can be handled through the auspices of the PRTB and we can help along the way from beginning to end, including appearing at the Tribunal on the owner's behalf. You need never make contact with the tenant. We can always act as your liason. Repairs & Maintenance Landscaping, along with other maintenance needs, can be managed for you. Normal non-emergency maintenance repairs are scheduled with the tenant during regular business hours and are affected as soon as possible, at the convenience of the tenant. For emergency situations, where there may be eminent danger to life and / or property, tenants are given our 24 hour, 7 day a week emergency contact number. We recognize the importance of cost containment and diligently strive to keep repair costs controlled. Along with our highly skilled maintenance department staff, we have developed strong relationships with many vendors, contractors, and suppliers. Through this we believe we can offer the most competitive repair costs possible. We do not use our contractors as a profit point unlike a lot of our competitors we only pass onto our clients the cost of the service. Accounting & Reporting We maintain complete computerized records on each property. You can be provided with a monthly Cash Flow Statement and additional customized reports are available for your specific needs. Monthly services include rent collection, payment of all or a portion of property operating expenses, monthly disbursement and financial reports. Consolidated reporting for all your properties can be provided. Utility account management / ESB We are able to organise landlord agreements with the ESB (Electricity Supply Board) to ensure orderly transfer of your electricity account. This will ensure that your electricity will never be cut off. Lease Management Services We protect you and your property through the constant review of our lease and addenda. We are continually in contact with your tenants close to the termination of their lease agreement in order to ensure minimal vacancy periods. Our staff will be there for the signing of the lease and to walk thru the unit with your new tenant if required. After the tenant moves out we will walk through the unit assessing what needs to be done to re-rent, we will fill out a detailed summary of what needs to be covered by the security deposit and release it at that time. We will then get your unit ready to re-rent in a timely fashion. Annual Inspections It is our experience that once a tenant has occupied a property for approximately eight weeks an inspection will inform our company and you on the likely condition of the property at the termination of the tenancy. It is for this reason that we strongly advise on an eight week inspection. In addition we inspect the property prior to any tenancy and at the termination of the tenancy. We can if you wish provide you with additional routine inspections during the course of the tenancy. Management Fees To hire our company to manage your property, start by clicking here to let us know your management needs or contact us at 01 402 0066 or email us at info@dublinlettings.com

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You shall be missed!

 (pic courtesy: bikanerwala.com)

Like every other day, friends and I crossed the busy Pune University Road, walked a little ahead and took a turn to eat at our very own Bengali restaurant-cum-mess. The home-style fresh food and inexpensive rates had made the place our regular adda for the past one year. It was the place we went to from office for wholesome lunch.

We loved ordering Chicken and Onion Mughlai Parathas, egg curry, misti doi (sweet yogurt), veg thali (rice plate with vegetables, dal, papad and baigun bhaja). The food was fresh and filling. On days we felt rich, we would greedily order Chicken Kausha, chappatis, and end it all with Gur Rosgullahs. I also discovered a new Bengali sweet that I absolutely loved: Chaina Jilpi (a jalebi made out of gulab jamun batter). And of course, fish chops (minced river fish fried till the cover turns real crisp)  served with mustard chutney. The preparations were out of this world. After eating there for a year and a half I truly began to understand why Bengalis are known to love their food.

However, on that day we saw the restaurant reduced to pile a debris. Was the meal we had the other day, our last?  

Change Ahead

(pic credit: http://www.motivationalmemo.com/how-to-change-your-life/)


It happened once in the past.
Now it might happen again.
Till then I tell myself:

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”
- Harold Wilson

About Deepti

 1.   I love water. Period. Drinking water (preference room temperature), swimming, water parks, and water games. Someday plan to learn more styles of swimming.
2.    I loathe cracked heels. Someone told me glycerin is an effective solution. I testify this. 
3.    I love my daughter too much than I thought I ever will.
4.    I wish there was a mechanism to automatically fold clothes.
5.    I like cooking occasionally
6.    I enjoy my morning walks
7.    I believe in the power of gratitude. Thank you Anil Pillai, for introducing me to Rhonda Byrne.
8.    I loved attending JLF 2012! Got introduced to Manto, Lionel Shriver, Ben Okri and so many other authors.
9.    I love making friends and these chance outings.
10.    Books provide great company and ideas.
11.    Want to stop thinking for a while.
12.    I have a journal where I do say thank you for all that I have received. (Making a note of doing today’s entry in the journal after this post)
13.    I love upgrading my knowledge
14.    I am scared to be a housewife. Was a HW for a year and a half. Hated it. For I felt it rusts my brain.
15.    I love friendly people. But not the types who aren’t honest.
16.     I like reading two blogs: bytheganges.blogspot.com and justamotheroftwo.blogspot.com
The writers are entertaining and headstrong.

Nurturing friendship

 (pic courtesy http://blog.addictinggames.com)

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Once out of college, you really have to ‘make the first move’ to have valuable friendships outside office and extended family. Just limiting yourself to your own world and then saying “but no one talks to me” does not help.

During my freelancing days, when I worked from home, there were very few people I met. Some people are okay being on their own, and there is nothing wrong with it – unless they feel it’s not happening. And I felt it did not work out for me. I wanted friends beyond the usual – hi, hello conversations but was plain lazy to be proactive. 

Here are a few tips on nurturing friendships:

• Strike a conversation
• Never say a no: for coffee, a walk, a party etc
• Exchange views on marriage, current affairs, love, hobbies, places to visit, restaurants etc 
• Reciprocate

About me:

1. If you had Rs.50,000 to just blow up (you have to spend it on YOURSELF. Giving to Charity or buying gifts for others not allowed), what would you spend it on and why?

Buy clothes, shoes, bags and fengshui items for my home

2. Name three of your closest friends (not family or spouse) and say why you love them.

Debarati: She knows me too well and every small incident that happens in my life. If I say I am happily married it is because of her to talk so much sense in to me.

Anil: For being so helpful, always

Snehit: He introduced me to so many authors and narrates so many stories to me.

3. Name three books which have profoundly affected you and which you would recommend to everyone to read.

The Secret

Stories by Roald Dahl

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

4. If you know for certain that you can never ever fail, what would you attempt to do?

I would probably write a book!

5. What is THE ONE THING that you want very very badly?

A slim body

Art & Theatre
Dance, Dance, Evolution

With time everything changes and dance is no exception. The legend Padma Vibhushan Dr Sonal Mansingh shares how important is it for dance to evolve

By Deepti KhannaPosted On Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 06:28:55 PM

Renowned danseuse Dr Sonal MansinghAt a recent Odissi dance performance, it was a delight to see Dr Sonal Mansingh use numbers like Tere mere hootho pe or a Mar diya jaaye to explain the different shades of Sringar rasa. This is just one example of how classical dance is slowly changing from the way purists treated itand is now adapting to fit into the current times. “Just as we do not speak Shakespearean English anymore but the rules of English grammar are more or less the same, the mudras, postures, facial expressions and sentiments behind a dance are more or less the same. The language in which it is communicated to the audience should change so that it makes perfect sense. In my opinion it is the duty of an artiste to change with the times or else the knowledge will rot,” says this 66-year-old danseuse, who has been trained in Bharat Natyam, Odissi and Chhau forms of classical dance.

Repackaging classical dance It is a known fact that our classical dances are dying a slow death. With TV and Bollywood concentrating on western and Bollywood styles of dancing, revival of classical dance seems quite a challenge. She explains: “The disadvantage about dance is that it is a visual art. Classical music is at an advantage because there are good CDs available in the market today so music connoisseurs can buy them for listening to rich classical music at home. But with dance, we do not have any DVDs being made. Also, all the marketing that happens for dancers to negotiate for a good price is done by either fathers or husbands. There is no one offering scholarships or no corporate giant pumping in money for this cause.” She also feels that the media has a very important role to play when it comes to creating awareness about our rich culture. “We have been aping the West. But we are forgetting how the West values their rich cultural heritage. Almost every news channel in the West has a regular TV show dedicated to bringing out to the richness of the country’s dance, music etc. But here this is missing. Earlier we did have columns in papers talking about Tukaram, Meera, Muktabai, Kabir and their wisdom. But all this is fading away,” mentions Dr Mansingh.

Dance: A many splendid thing She also believes that youngsters should be taught classical dance not only for better fitness or grace but for the fact that a classical dancer learns to think differently. According to her a classical dancer reads a text in three dimensions unlike a scholar who does not go beyond the known narrative. “We all know about Lord Rama as a great king and son. But how many of us know that he was a great lover as well. It was only because he did everything that Seeta said was she able to throw a tantrum and demand for a golden deer. Not many wives can take such liberties with their better halves,” she smiles.

In her opinion everyone should learn dance at least once in their lives to understand these beautiful hidden symbols. Dr Mansingh also states that a good dancer should address the shortcomings of the society. “Being a visual artist, dancers should reflect the unfair practices rampant in the society, but it should be done subtly and packaged in a way that it is accepted. Women and child related issues are close to my heart. In my dances I do showcase how women are not encouraged to study but pushed into getting married early,” states Dr Mansingh. Dr Mansingh sincerely advises everyone to fall in love. “Love is a beautiful emotion and we all should experience it to live our lives completely,” concludes Dr Mansingh.