Kate101, I'm just curious - how long term can these contracts be with the company you are talking about? If I had seen this post before I made the deal on my new apartment I would have definitely contacted you! I have a friend who is looking for a place and has almost no possibiity to find a guarantee.
For an unfurnished apartment, I'd think owners would have to be willing to lease it for a minimum of two years (in my experienced opinion) - having moved many times here in BA, the thought of anything less than two years and taking all my furniture and appliances with me every 6-9 months or even a year would be horrible.
if you pay 1100us for an unfurnished apt, do you pay expenses ? For big apt like that on Libertad, the expense can be a few thousand pesos easily.
So you are really paying 2000us for an unfurnished apt ? Which is still not bad. But you can get a similar furnished apt for 2k too.
$1100 USD + (let's say) $3000 pesos is actually only about $1400 USD (really less, and getting "lesser" because of the value of the peso, for the expenses, related to dollar). $2000 USD monthly on a base rent of $1100 USD would be a huge exageration it seems to me...
I have to be out of my apartment at the end of April and am about to sign a deal for an apartment on Quintana near the corner of Perera, for $1100 USD/month ($12000 pesos first year, but we're making the deal in dollars so the price won't rise for me in the second year). 175 square meters, 4 bedrooms, really a beautiful place, building expenses included, just have to pay the local service taxes (around $1000 pesos a month). It's unfurnished, although the owners are leaving us some of their furniture - their mother died a few years ago and they are ready to rent out the apartment, but didn't have a place to put a lot of the furniture. It was a special deal, no doubt, and now I can have a sofa in the living room AND in my office (my office will be that big!).
I lucked out and found owners that were willing to accept a guarantee on a place in Mar Del Plata (we have an Argentine friend whose parents own a beach house down there). I have been in my current apartment for 4 years, it would be nice to make that the minimum always!
After having spent the last month and a half searching for an apartment, seems like now is a good time to find a new place if one was so willing. Lots of deals to be made.
On a side note, I found this really cool place near Plaza Italia on Santa Fe that was a house (an actual house) in the middle of the block, surrounded by apartment buildings and accessible via a long hallway that stretched from Santa Fe to the center of the block. There were some drawbacks, but it was the house of the architect that had designed most of the buildings on that block. $10000 pesos a month, no expenses, 165 sq meteres if I remeber correctly, over three floors (including a basement). Of course, only Cap Fed garantia...
