Good advice when looking for accommodation with your PropertyAlert
A search agent is your personal assistant who is constantly searching for new vacant homes when you do not have the time to be online. You can use the search agent as a supplement to an active property search, so you are updated on new homes matching your criteria and enables you to be one of the first to contact the landlord. There may be many other home seekers looking for the attractive rental homes in the most popular cities, and it is advantageous that your application is among the first in the landlord's inbox.
You can also use the search agent if you have already found a place to live but you are curious about what other rental homes in your area cost or whether your neighbor is about to move. The search agent could help you figure out that the rent you pay is correct and fair or that the dream home on the other side of the street is finally available. No matter how you choose to use our search agent, the service is completely free.
To get the most out of your agent, it is very important to give the correct search parameters when you create the search agent. If you have experience with searching for rental accommodation in the larger cities, you may already have learned that it is hard to get the rental property of your dreams. It is therefore an advantage to be flexible and broad in the search criteria. For example, try to:
Search wider geographically
Perhaps you have a preferred postal code or neighborhood you would like to live in, but it never hurts to look in other areas. If you set your search agent to search for accomodation in the entire municipality - and maybe even in the neighboring municipality - you will, in addition to getting a larger range of homes, get a good insight into what you can get for the money at different addresses. You may even be surprised by a nice rental home in an area you did not know about or did not know you would like to live in.
Set a realistic rent
Nobody wants to pay more than necessary in rent, but when you create your search agent, we advise you to specify the maximum amount you can afford. The rent could be inclusive of consumption and utilities and is therefore not really that high, or the accommodation is so large that you can rent a room to a friend. It's all about giving yourself as many options as possible.
Think small in regard to the size of accomodation
Number of rooms and square meters are not always connected. Small rental homes can have many rooms, and larger homes may have few rooms. When filling in your wishes for the number of rooms and square meters, be careful not to exclude some opportunities for yourself. The lower you set the criteria for square meters and rooms, the more results you will of course get. It may be that your dream home turned out to be a small 55 square meter, 3-rooms flat.
