thewebweazel

Awesome

I reckon that some people "Made up their minds" even before they have unpacked the boxes, you have to give it at least 2 years and you have to make an effort. It's strange how so many people expect the perfect life after emigrating.

Thanks Kate!

More like penguins very poor cousins! P.S. I lurk every now and again.

Honestly how can you take anyone that likes Tim Tams seriously ?

It's great to see it all turned out for the better. Bit of a bummer to arrive with all this rain but soon we should have an awesome summer woohoo!

Try using http://www.fuelwatch.wa.gov.au/ consumer protection website for fuel prices in WA. Supposedly petrol stations have to submit daily fuel prices to consumer protection by 12 the day before.

Way to go!

Congrats!

How did it go?

Just have to wonder when it all is going to all come crashing down, prices seem to be so inflated, it doesn't seem to be sustainable

Bit strange that lot!!

Yeah not to bad Settling in here in Perth!

You should have checked the Salami aisle! I bought both Donkey and Horse Salami in France in the local supermarket. If they were willing to admit Horse or Donkey one can only imagine what "filler! they are using:twitcy::twitcy:

WOW that Chantelle on yesterdays WDU was really HOT:happy_face_mummy_go I'm in Love !!!!!

One thing I do know, its actually illegal to to discriminate prospective tenants with children, unless the house you are applying to rent was the LL principal residence or the LL lives next door - Nuts :wacko:. If you are discriminated against I reckon it would be a up hill battle to prove it!! Yeah I agree the Ozzie dream is definitely a myth but I suspected that before I arrived :biglaugh:

Cool very exciting! Where are you going?

Woohoo great news since the last time this whinging Pommie/Saffa was on PIO. The Weazel Clan has found a House to rent, our application was accepted by the LL and we were offered a lease. Option fee has been Paid and we move in at the end of the month. How we did it? Looked on line in the Quokka found the only house being offered for rent in the Area, went for a viewing, had a long chat with the Rhodies that were moving out. Put the App in, with a long letter introducing ourselves and promising to look after the house. Along with the offer of 6 months rent up front and $20 extra a week seems to have done the trick! I really hate to say it (seeing I don't believe in it) but it seems to be pure luck! According to the LL she had 8 eligible applications that she could go with, but she liked Mrs Weazels introduction letter. Would we be able to do it again .... who knows, we certainly don't have a magic bullet here! But wait for it there is even more good news Mrs Weazel landed herself a fantastic job for 3 months with one of the Utility companies in the CBD! I am so Proud of her!

Hi there thank you for your reply and ideas Cleopatra! For me just being able to share my frustration on PIO has made it more bare able

Hi Candy Girl, checked the Quokka, Gumtree and newspapers. There are loads of houses out there but there is also loads of potential renters. The problem is not finding a suitable house, its finding a landlord that is willing to give us a go. As for my employer I really don't want them to get involved asking for a reference is fine but anything more then that I feel is asking for trouble

Have you managed to secure a rental yet ?

Does anyone know how this Option fee thing works? How long can a agent hold your option fee while making a decision ?

Yup Queensland LOL. I wouldn't miind living in Mandurah but it is a Tad to far to my work in Morley. Mrs Weazel expects to work in the CBD, my Twins are in Glengarry Primary school and my eldest will enroll in Duncraig HS at the end of the holidays. Plus our family live in the Northern suburbs. One of the major reasons why we moved to Perth was the fact what we already have a support network so moving SOR would make impossible to take advantage of Family

For me the Horror stories of Perth's rental market has hit home, I can now understand why some migrants that have spent years planning and working to secure a visa return "Home" only after a couple of months in Perth. I have been in Perth four and a half months and have been looking for a Rental for the last Month and a half (ever since the rest of the Weazel clan have arrived) to no avail. The Whole process is soul destroying, loads of people traipsing through some unfortunate soon to be ex tenants personal space with out a hint of supervision. Stories of 10 or 20 people arriving to inspect a house are true, actually they are pretty much the norm. Mrs Weazel attended a "Viewing" today where there were so many people that they had to wait in line and where taken through the house in batches, after waiting 15 minutes for her turn she gave up when she realised there was not a snowballs hope in hell that she was ever likely to have a chance with any application she might submit! I like to think that we are being realistic in our expectations, we have set ourselves a search area from Carine in the South to Burns Beach road in the North, East of the Marmion and 1 suburb west of Wanneroo Road so as to include Tapping, Wanneroo, Wangara a Darch etc. We are looking for a 3 or 4 bedroom with a lockup Garage and a Garden at least equal to what we had in the UK, very importantly it needs cupboard space. We have set ourselves a budget of up to $600 a week, most of the houses that we have viewed that meet our standard are above $450, note our standards have dropped substantially we even consider avocado bathroom suites and face brick inside walls, electric solid plate stoves and dustbowl gardens :wacko:. Unfortunately (for us) we do have standards in hygiene so some houses are automatically not considered. We have looked at houses that are cockroach infested, one the smelt like baby poo and countless that smelt like dog and that is after the carpets have been so called professionally cleaned, (all rental properties carpets are shampoo cleaned before next occupation) When pointing this out to the rental agent you normally get a half baked answer that pretty much comes down to take it or leave it when reading between the lines. Further more there doesn't seem to be a hint of embarrassment when showing such a hole. Oh how I detest rental agents they look down their noses at you and treat you like trash. When submitting an application don't expect them to get back to you when you have not made the grade, I dunno what happens when you do make the grade........ clearly:biglaugh:. They aren't interested in helping you find a rental the market dictates that they don't have to be, actually the market dictates that they don't have to be polite or civil to you either, some receptionists in estate agents don't even look at you or stop their conversations with Co workers when throwing the rental list at you. I have even had an agent make fun of immigrants Brits in particular at a Inspection. My perception is that there is a lot of lazy agents out there, it seems as if they are not interested in checking UK based references, we have made 8+ applications so far and not one of our references have been checked. One estate agent (house sales) that Mrs weasel had a chat with indicated that landlords are reluctant to take on UK expats as they have a larger tendency to break leases when they decide OZ is not for them. To counter the perception that we might break lease we have offered 3, 4 and 6 months rent in advance but it hasn't helped. We have offered $20 more per week as well, which I am very reluctant to do as bidding just pushes up the rents and makes the whole situation worse, but no luck. I cannot seem to work out what the problem is, is it the 3 children? I made one application for a 3 bedroom house with a study with out even looking at it, offered 6 months rent in advance 2 weeks before the open house and I was turned down on the fact that we have 5 in the Family and that there is not enough room for us. The pictures of the house clearly shows 6 beds and i have now found out that the owner that lived in the house previously has a family of 6. I have rented 6 apartments/houses and owned 2 properties since I was first shackelled to Mrs Weazel (please note it was willingly :wubclub:) and never once have I had to "BEG" for someone to take my money, it is ridiculous. I can honestly say that I have never lost my deposit, actually I have always left properties that I have rented in better condition then the way I received them, but unfortunately I cannot use any of these facts as I last rented over 8 years ago so the UK lettings agencies are unlikely to have any records and even if they did OZ agencies are unlikely to get off their lazy butts to check. So where does the Weazel Clan go from here? Family have been very kind to put us up but there comes a time when the "Homeless" have to find a Home for every bodies sanity. I might just try a holiday rental so I can get an independent checkable Ozzie reference but I'm not really sure that that it is going to help at this stage. Maybe its time to ask the WA state sponsor to be let out of the 2 year agreement and allow me to move to Queensland, hopefully its better there! Unfortunately at this stage the Ozzie Dream doesn't look that great now !