Renting Advice!

[Guest Tam]

Hi

 

We are heading out to Brisbane in a few weeks...and staying with friends for the first few weeks until we get our feet on the ground and have a chance to look at houses...what I need to know is what docs you need to be able to rent.

 

My OH has a job to go to...so has contract and will have payslip(s).

Also gather that you need ID, Drivers, Medicare card, bank cards, and references.

 

What if you dont rent and are a homeowner...are annual motgage statements any good?

 

Any other tips please?

 

Thanks

 

Tam :wink:

[B1K3R]

Hi

 

We are heading out to Brisbane in a few weeks...and staying with friends for the first few weeks until we get our feet on the ground and have a chance to look at houses...what I need to know is what docs you need to be able to rent.

 

My OH has a job to go to...so has contract and will have payslip(s).

Also gather that you need ID, Drivers, Medicare card, bank cards, and references.

 

What if you dont rent and are a homeowner...are annual motgage statements any good?

 

Any other tips please?

 

Thanks

 

Tam :wink:

 

 

Hi Tam,

 

We are home owners too and did not have a problem. From my research, I found that its not always the same though.

 

In general, you need to get 100 points (any of these will help):

 

Birth Certificate

Passport

Citizenship Certificate

Drivers Licence

Public Service Employee ID card

Commonwealth or State Government financial entitlement card (eg Pension card)

Medicare card

Credit Card (only 1 per institution)

 

Documents on which your name and address appear:

Car registration

Utility bill

Rental receipts

Records of another financial institution showing you've been a member for 12 months or more

 

But, in our case, we have showed the agent our passports, driving licence, a few utility bills (we got telephone and electricity/water bills from home) and also showed them some reference letters (from work really!)

 

The more docs you have the better :wink:

 

Good luck!

 

B!K3R

[Pumpkin]

Hi

 

We are heading out to Brisbane in a few weeks...and staying with friends for the first few weeks until we get our feet on the ground and have a chance to look at houses...what I need to know is what docs you need to be able to rent.

 

My OH has a job to go to...so has contract and will have payslip(s).

Also gather that you need ID, Drivers, Medicare card, bank cards, and references.

 

What if you dont rent and are a homeowner...are annual motgage statements any good?

 

Any other tips please?

 

Thanks

 

Tam :wink:

 

Note that you have to put a pack of information together for all adults that will be living in the house. We included:

 

Passports

Driving licence

Job offer letters

UK bank statement

Reference letter - two lines from the estate agent in UK managing our house, i.e. saying it was a well presented and maintained property.

 

We also wrote a covering letter about ourselves i.e. professional couple, no children, two cats, homeowners for many years, have jobs etc etc.

 

Did the trick for us.

[Guest cosmicsis]

Hi there - any info as above great, proving that you are trustworthy etc. We brought our mortgage statements with us as didn't rent either - if you have sold your house in UK then your solicitor letter or bank statements etc and sometime offering a few months upfront may help but not necessary. Good luck with the move xx

[Pumpkin]

Hi there - any info as above great, proving that you are trustworthy etc. We brought our mortgage statements with us as didn't rent either - if you have sold your house in UK then your solicitor letter or bank statements etc and sometime offering a few months upfront may help but not necessary. Good luck with the move xx

 

Sorry for off topic. But what do purple squares mean?

[Guest The Pom Queen]

Sorry for off topic. But what do purple squares mean?

 

When people click your chicken your bar slowly goes up.

I think the max purple bars you can receive is 6, so you are well on your way, well done lol:notworthy: