help finding rental propperty

Hi Lauren,

Welcome to PP & you have started with a topic most people will love to rant about with regard to Rental Agents.

They are very poor out here as it's a market full of people wanting to rent a place.

We did a 14week short term fully furnished rental via Tracey at ozhouserentals.com which gave us time to get settled & work out where we want to live without taking a longterm lease we would then regret.

We had a 4bed 2 bathroom place in Baldivis for $500/week fully furnished - only thing missing was AirCon but the time you are coming over you wont be needing it for a couple months.

Beyond that we produced a file of references from employers, bank details, credit score, a copy of our visa, and anything else we could think of that would help.

We found a place via gumtree with a private landlady who has been brilliant whereas a lot of the mainstream letting agencies said we hadn't been here long enough or some other excuse.

If you go mainstream agency then look on realestate.com.au or reiwa.com.au but often with the market as competitive as it is here the price listed is almost a starting price & people actually offer more per week for places!!

One we looked at was listed at $520 and someone didnt even walk round, filled in the form & offered $650! (Sorry I was nosy & looked over her shoulder).

All I can say is give yourself time to find a place, we started looking with 8 weeks of our 14 week rental still to go & only secured one with 2 weeks to go.

Workwise - again dont wait for agencies, contact companies direct - they are very approachable & will be grateful not to pay agency fees to recruit someone.

All I can say is we have been here 4 months & it's everything we hoped it would be and soo much more. Last night it was just a normal day and we went to watch the sunset on the beach, only people on a beach about 1km long, it was amazing to finally be able to do these things after talking about it for so long.

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