Originally Posted by liver bird

Does anyone, anywhere please know of any decent rentals that take pets ? I know it's our own fault for having dogs and cats but have spent £££££s since friday when we arrived looking at properties on the net and there is NOTHING out there, have widened our areas and upped our money so all we'll be able to eat for the next six months till we buy is tim tams! (no bad thing!)! Hubbie working at st lucia and we are staying in holiday accom in toowong but it's so expensive. We've looked at everywhere up to the gap, chermside, hamilton, and done indooroopilly, hendra, balmoral, bulimba, morningside, riverhills, bardon, auchenflower, coorparoo, yeronga, toowong, chapel hill, kenmore hill, fig tree pocket, sinammon park and there's nowhere. Walked into loads of estate agents (graceville, sherwood chelmer , toowong, allpeople lovely but all the rentals we like are gone already. Air con seems to be a thing of the past or they only do two rooms, living and main bedroom, so does that mean our two little ones are going to fry? and with temps going to go into the hundreds, with two under three and on tight budget am panicking. I know it's early days but can anyone suggest any areas? would be so grateful. Suddenly the UK seems v far away and am just having a crap day so forgive moan.
We're now looking at bayside (even though we haven't driven out there yet, that's tomorrow) but manly hasn't got any rentals for us and wynnum neither. Do you reckon we have to move to the gold coast to get anywhere? Plus before I came out I kept reading about people finding a suburb and just 'knowing it was right' and I haven't!! I find it all a bit much, seems to be like london where you have to find a decent suburb with restaurants etc out of central brisbane to live in?
I'm so pathetic Im terrified of the roads (never drove on motorways in the UK) , AND a cockroach nearly ran over my foot the other night outside our apartment, thought it was a leaf until I clocked it then went hysterical! , (told u I was pathetic) kids not sleeping cos of jet lag, up at 11.30pm till 5am for the past three nights, am knackered, keep feeling really tearful when someone speaks to me nicrely, even the cashier in woolworths (even though they won't let me pack my own bags!) Anyone out in bayside give us some good commutable suburbs to st lucia???sorry for rambling, am going to have xx

Originally Posted by kellyjs

the best thing ipom is we all know what goes around comes around, so it will be one of us asking for help next week I swear by BE, its helped me out many times

Originally Posted by mandtooz

hi

i am newly arrived in bayside and in redland bay, there are deff rentals here, i will dig the number out for you................... and they take doggies, our friends have a dog and there are dog next door! the guy is a nice guy and will sort you for a min 6 month rental im sure, that will give you time to chill and find an area for YOU!

will be back in a tic!

mand

p.s sent you a pm

Originally Posted by Sue from Manchester

Have you tried Yeronga, Yerongpilly, Fairfield, Dutton Park etc. with the new Green Bridge due to open on 15 Dec it would be a short journey to St Lucia. Is it UQ hubbie will be working? I work there and so does my hubbie! We'll have to meet up for lunch!
Lack of sleep will account for how you are feeling, it WILL get better. Like others have said on here, you will need to look for an older house to be able to keep pets. A lot of the Uni students will be going home in the next couple of weeks after exams so hopefully more will come on the market then.

Originally Posted by Centurion

Just did a search around my local area (Wello Point). Real Estate showing 30 properties. Try postcode 4160 and surrounds.

Dont know if you like the idea of Bayside. Personally we love it.

I can recommend a real estate letting agent who isnt a shark who we dealt with if you want to PM me.

Originally Posted by Karen72

Hi, you may know these details already, but just in case you don't, try www.realestate.com they cover the majority of stuff, I have just been shopping in Bracken Ridge and was looking at estate agents for buying stuff but there seemed to be a fair few rentals available, they may be worth contacting, they cover the bracken ridge, carseldine, bald hills areas which are nice, we've moved to bracken ridge with a 2 year old and there's parks etc. it's close to the coast and there's kindy, schools. etc.etc. The estate agents are ray hwite and raine and horne they are in the multiplex shopping centre in bracken ridge on telegraph road, if you are looking up the number. Good luck.

Originally Posted by tking

Don't worry too much about the air-con, the kids won't fry, most people here use fans and not air-con in their bedrooms (well I do anyway!). It does get hot but you acclimitize quickly - especially the kids, just keep them hydrated!

Originally Posted by loopyloo2

hiya liverbird

have you tried ipswich, we came to oz in july 24th and found our ideal rental in a lovely estate and ray white had us in within a week, the first few weeks are incredibly hard and i can sympathise with you with the homesickness i get it every pmt, its not even homesickness its people sickness, it is very hard, pm me if you want a shoulder to cry on. we live in the grammar park estate in brassall and the warrego highway all but takes you into brisbane on one road, we have done it in 30 minutes (althought not sure where st lucia is). we have a rental just up the road if you are interested.

hope this helps

louise

Originally Posted by caleb2003

4 cats and 2 dogs plus young kids my god you're mad.

We have 2 dogs but got rid of our cat when my first was born and I've got to be honest I can't find time to spend with the dogs now the 2nds here (anyone know of a good home in the UK for 2 cocker Spaniels?).

Good luck to you, personally speaking I agree with saying you only got 1 cat but wouldn't try to mask the dogs.

We've been also worrying about this regarding bringing our dogs when we eventually get there (can't find a good home for them with all the people we know so theres no way i'm just putting them in the paper!) so i'll be interested to see how it pans out for you.

All the best

Originally Posted by brissydeb

my husbands uncle rents out apartments in east Brisbane near kangaroo point...........let us know if you want us to get into contact with him to see what he has to offer........