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Old Nov 29th 2005, 4:53 pm
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Question how hard is it to rent???????

hi , a friend of a friends who moved to queensland has said they found it vey difficult to rent ...has any one got a different view please .
we are due to move soon and like many others want to rent first but this comment has made us a little worried
thanks
 
Old Nov 29th 2005, 7:38 pm
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Originally Posted by kerrie/wayne
hi , a friend of a friends who moved to queensland has said they found it vey difficult to rent ...has any one got a different view please .
we are due to move soon and like many others want to rent first but this comment has made us a little worried
thanks
Hi Kerrie/Wayne, unfortunately your friends experience isnt unique, but it does depend on where you are moving to. In general the better areas are very hard to find a rental in, for obvious reasons I guess as more people want to live there & in general their seem to be less rentals available in those areas. The other thing to be aware of is that many houses for long-term rent that are advertised on websites may not quite live up to the expectation based on the photos that they display (in other words, there are an awful lot of dumps out there :scared: ).
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Old Nov 29th 2005, 7:54 pm
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The rental market in Aus is huge compared to the UK but like MrsD says it depends where you are headed.

And yes, there are lovely looking internet houses that are nothing like the real thing.
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And yes, there are lovely looking internet houses that are nothing like the real thing.
But the camera never lies.........

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Old Nov 29th 2005, 7:58 pm
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Default Re: how hard is it to rent???????

Originally Posted by kerrie/wayne
hi , a friend of a friends who moved to queensland has said they found it vey difficult to rent ...has any one got a different view please .
we are due to move soon and like many others want to rent first but this comment has made us a little worried
thanks
kerrie/wayne

My friends in Qld found it pretty easy to rent. That said, they weren't too fussy and had a referral from their agent back home. In Melbourne we found agents weren't too keen to rent to us, because we had no reference due to always having owned our own home (bummer), so we ended up starting with something that we thought the agents would deem low risk (rent not too high, few month's rent paid up front) and got in that way. From there we upgraded, having now got the obligatory local references.

We got a decent place, but it was a tad cramped as it only had one living area and one dinning area. At least it had two bathrooms. From there we upgraded to 4 bedrooms plus study, two living areas etc. in a very good neighbourhood.

Money talks though, so if you can pay a few month's rent in advance it helps a lot.
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But the camera never lies.........

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........but "conveniently" doesn't tell you how old the photos are.
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Default Re: how hard is it to rent???????

Originally Posted by kerrie/wayne
hi , a friend of a friends who moved to queensland has said they found it vey difficult to rent ...has any one got a different view please .
we are due to move soon and like many others want to rent first but this comment has made us a little worried
thanks

hi we are in Brisbane and had to search around for a decent rental, as has been said some look great in the photo and then in the flesh!!! different story...and there didnt seem to be that many to choose from
we set a budget and then increased it to get the standard we required.
go to all the real estate agents tell them what you want, go looking and usually something will turn up. and it is a great insight into life looking round different suburbs and houses, plus it gets you good at map reading LOL
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