stewburt

Assuming you emigrate and ship out your container of goods at the same time, how soon can you find and move into a rented house, so that you have a place for your goods to be delivered to?

I'm hoping to avoid the 'going into storage' cost which is around $700.

Thanks for any advice

GarryP

The advice I was given was that you should be able to find a 'permanent' rental within about 6 weeks. However be aware they will need a 'destination' address for the shipping anyway, which then gets changed.

Given 9-12 weeks for your stuff to get there, you could send up to 3-6 weeks before you fly out and still have it work out.

ABCDiamond

Excluding the time spent looking, once you find the place, you can be in within a few days.

Quite a few people have slept on air beds in their new places waiting for the furniture to arrive. And used the garden table and chairs in the dining room

comet555

It really depends. I imagine with the amount of time you have you could find something to move into in that time frame.

When we arrived in Brisbane I looked at a place one afternoon and picked up the keys the next morning. It just happened to be empty and it was only available for 4 months, which is exactly what we wanted as we planned to buy a house asap.

So for us is was less than 24 hours, although I suspect most people will take longer to find a place!

Dreamy

We arrived on 10th Jan and were in our rental by the Australia Day weekend and we were offered both of the rentals we applied for.

You have to be prepared to do serious legwork, take your paperwork with you to the viewings (preferably get the agents application forms before you go so you can hand it in there and then if you like the place) .. oh, and we found writing 'We are happy to pay 3 months rent up front' across the top of each page of the application forms really helped the process

steve`o

its amazing how well this works
when we looked at a rental in varsity the agents wanted references from our previous landlords. tried explaining that we hadnt rented in the last 20 yrs and was told that references were essential if we wanted to rent,
so i offerd to pay for 6 months up front,
next day the agent phoned us saying it was all sorted when did we want to move in

4500 Times

Took us 6 days.....we bought a sofa and bits of cutlery, small tv, fridge/freezer and air beds to tide us over until our container arrived, all of which are still in use now, except the air beds.

stewburt

Thank you all for your excellent answers, good point about references, and I'll dust down the airbed.
Sounds like if a house is empty there shouldn't be any barriers to moving in quickly.