Thing that you need to know:
- A good site to find houses to rent or even if you need to share id http://www.realestate.com.au/
- If you live close to the city, most of times you don't need to pay train, you can walk
- The best suburbs are in South East but they are expensive then others, you will pay for a normal house close to AU$1400.00 and a good one close to AU$1700.00 a month
- North areas you can pay close to AU$1000.00 but they say that is not the safest area in here, my opinion, it still good, not that dangerous.
- North West areas, it is so far and takes long by train to go to the city but with AU$1200.00 you can rent a big, really big awesome house
- Keep in mind the distance between the house that you are looking for and the next train station, if you do not have car can be painful to walk.
this is a house located on the Noth West area.
You will pay AU$1200.00 a month to live in this house
this is a house located on the Noth area.
You will pay AU$1000.00 a month to live in this house
this is a house located on the South East area.
You will pay AU$1800.00 a month to live in this house
Remember to find a house with carport or garage if you intend to buy a car soon, some houses doesn't have garage and would be hard to park your car outside, sure have a look on the street first.
Is good idea to go by train and see how long from the city to the destination, and ever more important, mark time wealking from the train station to you new house, some of them looks like close but they are so far. It's good idea to see it on google maps before going, somtimes, you don't need to waste your time going to somewhere so far to walk, remember that you will need to walk every day that distance, raining or shinning lol, I did.
Almost done, now when you find a good house that you like and most important, you can afford, have a look on realestate site, they tell you the inspection date and time and house availability, it means that you need to be there at the inspection time and remember to have a look on availability of the house, some of them take months to be available.
Once you have seen a house and like, ask the realestate agent to give you an application form, you will need to fill in and provide fill documents like, passport, some bills, drivers licence and it's good idea to open an bank account before renting, if you give them a passport copy and a bank statement showing your account balance, you have a good chance to be approved, then landlord or owner need to see if you can aford living there.
You can apply to 100 houses at the same time, the only thing, if you are not rich or doesn't have a good money, it will be harder.
Once you are approced, you will be asked to pay the bond and the first month, e.g. if you just rent a house paying AU$1700 a month, normally they will ask you to pay the bond, value that warantee them, even if you break something they will get from this money, otherwise they will give it back in full, the value is not right but often it is a month rent value, and you will need to pay the first month renting, it means you will need to have at least AU$3400.00
When you leave this house, if you get you bond back in full is better, easier to rent the next one.
On your first day on the house take picture of everithing, inside and out, when you give back to them sometimes they complain and ask you to pay for something that was already broken, take those pictures and send to your realestate agent through email, it's a document.
Thats it, good luck for you.
ask me what you need, I'll be glad to answer.
Cheers
