neojynx

Might seem like a silly question, but how do I go about finding an apartment rental? we intend to rent a short while before we buy.

I am looking to move somewhere between Austin and San Antonio, Texas.

There will be my wife, 2 girls (7 & 5) and myself. Where do you advise me to start (at long distance) to find a place for when we arrive at the end of September?

I don't (yet) have a U.S. credit rating, but will be earning a good salary. (Should I get a letter from my company - would that help even?)

I really need to get onto this is my visa will be fast tracked and we intend to move by mid September.

regards

- G

Irn-bru

http://www.move.com/apartments/?poe=move

http://www.rent.com/

http://www.apartments.com/

http://www.apartmentguide.com/

when you find one you like you can check it out here but there are loads of negative comments and obvious manager glowing ones so read between the lines -
http://www.apartmentratings.com/

http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Catego...nancial_Topics Will help you get info on the credit info stuff

penguinsix

Craiglist Texas:

http://geo.craigslist.org/iso/us/tx

traveling

Sorry, I don't know about this. So I can not help you. :curse:

traveling

anybody else could help?

cassandra_trotter

Try louisiana, its cheap and jobs everywhere. Got my house for $11,000 and a local job, who cares if its hurricane alley

lapin_windstar

Depending on whether you find a good, private landlord, you can get around the no credit rating problem by putting down a big cash deposit or by getting your company to guarantee the payments.
Not too convenient for commuting to Austin, though!

Ray

Whats all this ..the idiot posting thread ..sheesh .,.

dbj1000

Iz ths duh tread for spccial ppl?

dbj1000

EDIT: F**KIN' MORONS! I didn't even see the date on the post that genius Traveling responded to! Jeez.

Neojynx, I'm sorry that you managed to get three of the most moronic replies EVUH in this thread.

Irn-Bru's links are good.

We used a free relocation person here in Dallas, and she turned out to be amazingly good. Sadly, she's not in the business anymore. However, there must be others.

Her deal was that she was free to us, and worked on commission from the apartments. She asked us various questions by email when we were still in the UK, then emailed us a shortlist of potential apartments based on our needs. Once we had selected the short-shortlist, we arranged to meet on the day we arrived in the US, and she drove us around each place to take a look.

We found a great first apartment that way, and she probably got a healthy commission from them.

Google for "free relocation" and the area you're interested in. Certainly you can do it yourself using the links, and it'll work just fine. But personally, I think if you can find a good relocation person at this end, they can save you a bunch of hassle (like finding the places you've seen online, when you're jet lagged and in a hire car!).

dbj1000

I do hope you stick around. You sound like you're going to be great fun!

MsElui

one other option is seeing if any of the real estate properties near you will consider a lease. With the housing market doing so cruddy - more are prepared to go this route as it at least means their mortgage is paid and the empty property isnt costing them anything ifd they cant sell it.

dbj1000

Oh gawd, don't make the same mistake as me...

This question was posted MONTHS ago. Some idiot trawled it up from history.

britvic

But we have to overlook the fact that they are a Newbie and maybe have no idea how fast this site run's

dbj1000

Have you read their replies? They trawled up this thread to say "I don't know".