Short let accommodation
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Short let accommodation
Hi there
As a lot of you will know, we have now sold our house and, God willing, will exchange in four weeks and complete in six. We are hoping to have our visa by the end of the year and need to rent accommodation for three months (oct - Dec). We are finding it really difficult. We have contacted all the agents in the portsmouth/waterlooville area in Hampshire and all of them say 6 months minimum. Can anyone tell me if they have been successful in securing a short let anywhere in this area. We would be happy to look at serviced apartments (which appear to be non-existent), holiday accommodation, anything. Any information greatly received.
Sarah
As a lot of you will know, we have now sold our house and, God willing, will exchange in four weeks and complete in six. We are hoping to have our visa by the end of the year and need to rent accommodation for three months (oct - Dec). We are finding it really difficult. We have contacted all the agents in the portsmouth/waterlooville area in Hampshire and all of them say 6 months minimum. Can anyone tell me if they have been successful in securing a short let anywhere in this area. We would be happy to look at serviced apartments (which appear to be non-existent), holiday accommodation, anything. Any information greatly received.
Sarah
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Re: Short let accommodation
Originally Posted by coxfamuk
Hi there
As a lot of you will know, we have now sold our house and, God willing, will exchange in four weeks and complete in six. We are hoping to have our visa by the end of the year and need to rent accommodation for three months (oct - Dec). We are finding it really difficult. We have contacted all the agents in the portsmouth/waterlooville area in Hampshire and all of them say 6 months minimum. Can anyone tell me if they have been successful in securing a short let anywhere in this area. We would be happy to look at serviced apartments (which appear to be non-existent), holiday accommodation, anything. Any information greatly received.
Sarah
As a lot of you will know, we have now sold our house and, God willing, will exchange in four weeks and complete in six. We are hoping to have our visa by the end of the year and need to rent accommodation for three months (oct - Dec). We are finding it really difficult. We have contacted all the agents in the portsmouth/waterlooville area in Hampshire and all of them say 6 months minimum. Can anyone tell me if they have been successful in securing a short let anywhere in this area. We would be happy to look at serviced apartments (which appear to be non-existent), holiday accommodation, anything. Any information greatly received.
Sarah
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Re: Short let accommodation
Originally Posted by starlark
If you take a lease out for 6 months and then terminate your lease early, you will probably just lose your depost and at the best part of the deposit, which wont be as much as paying a corporate letting fee as these usually work out 3-4 times as much.
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Re: Short let accommodation
Originally Posted by coxfamuk
I was under the impression that if you terminated your lease early, you were liable for the entire contracts worth of rentals. Are you saying that if we took out a six month lease and then terminated 3 months early, we would only lose our deposit?
We eventually found a small rental company that had propety in the area we were looking..we phoned and explained our that we were emigrating in three months time and they said they had come across this before...to cut to the chase they had their lawyer draw up a codicil to the tenancy agreement, which stated we would be released fromt the contract at the end of three months.
Sorry to disagree with former poster, but contracts are set up to secure rights for both tenant and company/owner...therefore if you sign for a six month contract you will be held responsible for payment of such.
Good luck in your search.
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Re: Short let accommodation
Originally Posted by coxfamuk
Hi there
As a lot of you will know, we have now sold our house and, God willing, will exchange in four weeks and complete in six. We are hoping to have our visa by the end of the year and need to rent accommodation for three months (oct - Dec). We are finding it really difficult. We have contacted all the agents in the portsmouth/waterlooville area in Hampshire and all of them say 6 months minimum. Can anyone tell me if they have been successful in securing a short let anywhere in this area. We would be happy to look at serviced apartments (which appear to be non-existent), holiday accommodation, anything. Any information greatly received.
Sarah
As a lot of you will know, we have now sold our house and, God willing, will exchange in four weeks and complete in six. We are hoping to have our visa by the end of the year and need to rent accommodation for three months (oct - Dec). We are finding it really difficult. We have contacted all the agents in the portsmouth/waterlooville area in Hampshire and all of them say 6 months minimum. Can anyone tell me if they have been successful in securing a short let anywhere in this area. We would be happy to look at serviced apartments (which appear to be non-existent), holiday accommodation, anything. Any information greatly received.
Sarah
http://www.gumtree.com/cgi-bin/frame...s_to_rent.html
Otherwise you could try holiday lets:
http://www.ownersdirect.co.uk/England.htm
http://www.holiday-rentals.com/
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Re: Short let accommodation
Originally Posted by BettyBoop
Hi, We're in Scotland in a short term let....we had the same problem as you are experiencing..no one would give us less than a six month rental...something to do with short assured tenancies.
We eventually found a small rental company that had propety in the area we were looking..we phoned and explained our that we were emigrating in three months time and they said they had come across this before...to cut to the chase they had their lawyer draw up a codicil to the tenancy agreement, which stated we would be released fromt the contract at the end of three months.
Sorry to disagree with former poster, but contracts are set up to secure rights for both tenant and company/owner...therefore if you sign for a six month contract you will be held responsible for payment of such.
Good luck in your search.
We eventually found a small rental company that had propety in the area we were looking..we phoned and explained our that we were emigrating in three months time and they said they had come across this before...to cut to the chase they had their lawyer draw up a codicil to the tenancy agreement, which stated we would be released fromt the contract at the end of three months.
Sorry to disagree with former poster, but contracts are set up to secure rights for both tenant and company/owner...therefore if you sign for a six month contract you will be held responsible for payment of such.
Good luck in your search.
I'm not quite sure what we are going to do. When you do searches in Melbourne, serviced apartments seem plentiful - wonder why not here in the UK (well, outside of london!)
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Re: Short let accommodation
Originally Posted by annajw
Its always worth having a look here
http://www.gumtree.com/cgi-bin/frame...s_to_rent.html
Otherwise you could try holiday lets:
http://www.ownersdirect.co.uk/England.htm
http://www.holiday-rentals.com/
http://www.gumtree.com/cgi-bin/frame...s_to_rent.html
Otherwise you could try holiday lets:
http://www.ownersdirect.co.uk/England.htm
http://www.holiday-rentals.com/
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Re: Short let accommodation
Originally Posted by coxfamuk
Would holiday lets allow us to rent for three months? Also, we are not too keen on the mobile home thing as my FIL snores something terrible
Should be plenty of proper homes on offer (opposed to mobile ones).
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Re: Short let accommodation
Originally Posted by coxfamuk
Would holiday lets allow us to rent for three months? Also, we are not too keen on the mobile home thing as my FIL snores something terrible
http://www.town-or-country.co.uk/
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Re: Short let accommodation
Originally Posted by Nicstids
Would Southampton be too far for you?
http://www.town-or-country.co.uk/
http://www.town-or-country.co.uk/