Flat For January And February W/ A/c

[Noruega]

Noruega,

How does the 20% COMISSION work for agents?

I am renting directly from the owner so I am not sure, but the agencies I have been in touch with have had different policies: some ask for a 20% of the total contract as a commission, payable up front, others 20 or 15% a month, etc. I am looking at a rental tomorrow that wants one month's rent as commission for a six month contract, so that would be 17%. Payable up front as well.

 

[Noruega]

To be honest, sounds about the same as my experience with crummy Comcast in DC. Thanks for all the details and advice -- what a helpful message board!

I lived in DC for a long time - Comcast was horrendous!! And really bad customer service. I switched to Verizon but it wasn't much better.

As for AirBnB, it is always an option to contact the owner and ask for a discount for a 2 month stay, and ask for a price in pesos. That's how I found my first place, we simply took the conversation off the website and they gave me a great price for a 4 month contract. To them, it was worth a lot to just have one person and not have to check people in and out all the time.

 

[Ceviche]

I am renting directly from the owner so I am not sure, but the agencies I have been in touch with have had different policies: some ask for a 20% of the total contract as a commission, payable up front, others 20 or 15% a month, etc. I am looking at a rental tomorrow that wants one month's rent as commission for a six month contract, so that would be 17%. Payable up front as well.

i hate these 'immobilarios'

 

[Noruega]

i hate these 'immobilarios'

Yeah, it is pretty annoying. And it has been my experience in other countries that the owner takes on the cost of having an agency manage the property - he rents it out at a market price, and gets 80% of the rent instead of 100%. Here, the owner gets 100% and the agency gets 20%, so the renter takes the whole burden. Not cool, but the market (i.e. me!) are accepting it, probably because of the whole long term rental issue (garantia etc.)

 

[jbeas176]

I have a unit in Palermo. very north American with dishwasher, washer and dryer, and comfortable furniture. I will visit this week and could let you know if its available. the internet is a problem. cabletel decided they would not longer accept my debit card with HSBC nor accept an international cc payment automatic. its a one bedroom. does any body know if the mobil companies offer wireless cards for computers on prepago. one month would do?

 

[jbeas176]

sorry...fibertel

 

[nlaruccia]

Lucha, this is not correct: plenty of temporary rentals are in pesos. Many of the real estate agencies have temporary rentals in pesos (Remax, Calot and many others), and some of the ones that specialize in short term rentals do their mostly in pesos. Here is an example from At Buenos Aires, of the first twenty apartments only two are quoted in dollars. http://www.atbuenosa...acation_rentals

Okay, it's publicized in pesos but at 13 to 1 it's $697 US.

 

[wineguy999]

Also, and everyone living here knows this for sure, one can promise reliable, fast internet, but the reality is very different from time to time. We were on what seemed like dial-up for about 6 days this month.

 

[lucha54]

I have a unit in Palermo. very north American with dishwasher, washer and dryer, and comfortable furniture?

I hope it's not our only defining qualities... but I can't say I mind!!!

 

[bobsnowpuppy]

As for AirBnB, it is always an option to contact the owner and ask for a discount for a 2 month stay, and ask for a price in pesos. That's how I found my first place, we simply took the conversation off the website and they gave me a great price for a 4 month contract. To them, it was worth a lot to just have one person and not have to check people in and out all the time.

I am in my first place (6 mo short term small one bedroom in Recoleta) from homeaway website. As with Noruega, I contacted the owner by email and we negotiated a price. She was asking U$S1,000 and accepted $8.500 pesos/mo which at the time was about U$S567/mf course, the peso has gone against me and rent is U$S640 this month! Furnished, balcony, upper floor, no problems yet with fibertel or anything else, one month deposit. This building has 54 units and only 20% of owners live in them - the rest are rented, but no idea what they go for.