Can you eserve rental property and wait to pay rent?
You are thinking just right. Go in mid-June and contact several realtors who handle rental properties–tenants moving out in late July must give 30 days notice. Plan on staying several days, look at apartments, and decide which ones will do,considering lease requirements. Arrange to have a realtor contact you if an apartment or model you like opens up. Let them know you can send them a month’s rent and the deposit by wire transfer from your bank he very next day–that shows you’re a real player, and you won’t be leaving a deposit on nothing, but those two expenses are unavoidable. Some places require the first AND last month’s rent, plus a deposit. If nothing opens up (a rural market,eh?) by July 4th, try for some of the second-line places with short leases–you may not stay in your first place very long, anyway. Also,during your first trip go to the local newspaper office and canvass the ads for stuff for rent by private parties–often they know when a place they have is coming open a
Only if the current tenants are moving out July 31st. The reason being, is that if the unit or house is vacant in May when you go searching for a place to live in August, the landlord with good reason, wants to rent the place ASAP. That means, they want someone in there sometime in May if possible. If they were to just take a deposit from you, they would miss out on 3 mos of rent from another tenant. Why would they do this? You would have to perhaps offer up quite a hefty non refundable deposit (in case you changed your mind) in order to convince someone in a rural town which you say has limited rentals. It would seem if there aren’t a lot of properties to rent, when one comes up, it would be snapped up quick.
