[The Broughtons]

We have just moved into a rental in Mornington, Vic. We spent time going in all of the local real estate agents on a Friday picking up all their rental lists. We then went through which ones we were interested in and phoned and made queries. For those that say not available until, many mean you can't even view until the tenants have moved out. I wouldn't know about whether you have to view before you sign up but you do have to apply for the lease and provide 100 points evidence check - this can vary from agent to agent. Some give different points values to different forms of id. Not having anything with an aussie address other than our drivers licence wasn't a problem, nor was previous tenancy references. We just explained that we owned our own home in the UK. It did help that our agent was a pom and keen to help out all the expats that she could find homes!

Felicity