Well, hopefully...
We had our meeting with the owner of our potential apartment and he seemed happy for us to rent his place. He was a bit apprehensive at first because this apartment has been in his family for quite a few years and this is the first time he has rented it out, but after he met us and talked to us (and we assured him that we were low maintenance tenants) he was more than happy.
All that is left to do is sign the contract, and transfer the deposit. And it is this small addendum that is the source of my slight apprehension. As I mentioned in a previous post the initial outlay for renting is 2 months rent as a deposit, 1 month rent up front and 1 month + 19% as the agent fee. We have the money, except it's in our Australian bank account, in Australian dollars. However, my bank requires that we have a security token on order to transfer money overseas- one of those keyring devices that spits out a number every 30 seconds that is unique to your account. We've ordered one, but it's not due to arrive for a few weeks, and this moeny needs to be transferred within 48 hours...
So after a late night spent skyping our families back in Australia, we've managed to sort it out (I think). International transfers have quite a few different fields to fill in compared to domestic transfers. But the money has disappeared from our account, so fingers crossed that it appears in agent's account soon enough.
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