Pay-As-You-Go Apartment Renting?
Any suggestions?
This is a two part question.
Trying to search the forum for this specific question didn't work so well. Surprised there was nothing found on this.
PART I:
Lived in BsAs for several months, had a nice experience renting a tourist apartment from an agency.
Didn't really think of returning to BsAs, although found the city really nice, but finding an itch surfacing and so considering it. Also for who knows why, never partook of the nice fruits there but will be different the next time around, and consult this board more often, that's the best bet. The clubs scared me off thinking they'd be scams, and never knew of the many priv.
That's the brief opening.
The frustration while renting these types of tourist apartments is as follows:
You're abroad, looking at apartments online which never paints an accurate picture, and besides, is there a noisy elevator right next to your wall not mentioned in the listing.
Maybe also you're the type that is not sure how long you want to stay in BsAs. Hard to commit to anything when you might be up in the air about the apartments or the city or anything in the future.
Contracts give me the shivers! All sorts of life events could come up and cut short your stays. It's hard to even say you'll be alive tomorrow let alone commit to a 6 month or 1 year booking.
Say you book the first time for 3 months. Great, now you're x-ed off on their calendar, so no other happy tourist / traveler can book your place and you have security knowing you have a place.
Now here's the tough part, you're going along in your new place. Your feeling things out, still not sure of any unpleasant surprises that may surface at your apartment, and still not sure if maybe you should be trying Rio this time around, and so you hesitate to book a longer stay.
Your first month is great, now into the 2nd. Still not full sure if you should book more time, but now your stressing because some other tourist / traveler could be getting online to the same site, at any hour of any day, and booking out your place for months four, five, etc. Or maybe they already did!
It's this uncertainty that just nags at you. As well as that whole "should or, or shouldn't I"? For booking more time or not. Wait too long and maybe the place is booked out. Book out more time too soon and maybe some unexpected event will come up.
What are your thoughts, suggestions on how to handle this type of stress when booking tourist apartments?
It's annoying to have to pack up where you might have made yourself a little home and be moving on to other apartments, especially if you end up liking your first place.
If you're flexible and don't care and you're place got booked out, at the end of the booking, you stay at a hotel for a week, check other apartments, and move in a new one, but you still might not want to commit to too long, even if your time in BsAs is going well. Call it commitment phobia.
See Part II for what would ideally be desired.
Prior time in BsAs, booked a short time, ended up liking things, but didn't have the deposit and certainty to outright book more months, thankfully though the nice agent x-ed off more months on the calendar without asking for anything more. This probably is quite rare.
PART II:
Pay-As-You-Go.
Several other countries I lived, I was able to check local ads and rent an apartment direct from the owner. No contracts. Pay-as-you-go. It worked out very well. Also was a huge load lifted. Knowing that as long as I paid each month, there'd be a place (except if the landlord decided to no longer rent). The point being, you didn't have to stress if at any moment someone else was going to book out your place.
Sure, you don't have the law on your side if things go wrong at the apartment, but most times, things are fine.
Some hotels are good like this. You check in and as long as you keep paying each day, cash at the counter (or charging to your card) , you're room is x-ed off to any other bookings.
This would be the ideal set up.
About renting from locals in BsAs. Well aware of the tough regulations of even locals needing to be vouched for, contracts, etc. But I have lived in other countries where they too also have the same tough laws and you can usually find rentals in local ads where the person will rent to a foreigner without a contract, pay-as-you-go.
How about it?
Would prefer the more typical route like in other countries, rent from a local, no contract. Is it possible in BsAs? It must be. There have to be some locals that'll do it.
Or any other ideas, suggestions.
Long post, but the details for this specific area are necessary.
Muchas gracias!
CARNAL URGES-PM Jackson admin / owner re staying in AP House while looking around
AP HOUSE is maybe 1/3 the price of a 3 to 4 star hotel and you get a locked 2 room suite and run of the mansions with many benefit.
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Good Website for Apartments
When I came down to BA I rented an apartment using the site Airbnb ([url]www.airbnb.com[/url]).
It's a great site that handles private rentals worldwide. I like it because the owners usually post lots of pictures; there are recommendations and comments by people who previously stayed in the apartment; and you can easily search by very specific locations (it's integrated with Google Maps). And paying is even easier. You can use a credit card, paypal, whatever. The site pays the landlord AFTER you arrive and agree to accept the apartment.
Granted, many of the apartments are more expensive now, but I also found many listings in the cheaper range. And some people also list rooms for rent for very cheap. Not that that's necessarily a great option.
Anyway, I'm very satisfied with my experience.