I am not on the "another side of barricade" ;-) “After lending (sorry, LEASING ) aparts here for 11 years, i got to know the real estate market very well))”. I suffer from major fatigue, make mistakes and cant express my thought clearly)
I leased 6 aparts so far through agencies and through friends/acquaintances. The best (but time consuming) option is to find “a friend-of-a-friend” who lets apart. You will have lower risk of rent increase, evict etc. etc. Agencies can also work. You can always negotiate 60-50-and even 40% agency commission “on the spot” and agent will agree. Otherwise you can grasp the landlord and lease apart without commission. On cian.ru there are deals with “50/50%” commission shared between 2 agents. Meaning you can come to the deal with your friend who will claim to be an agent and you will get 50% commission back. Cian is agent’s (legal and mostly illegal) site. My friend recently rented 1 room apart near m. Okhotny ryad for 24.000rur. It took her 2 months of very sophisticated “manipulatory” and tricky actions with the landlord. I rent 2 rooms apart in a stalin building near Alekseeskaya/VDNKH for 18.000rur. You can get such prices if you are a strong “manipulator” and negotiator. Agencies and market prices are two times higher))) _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat http://www.expat.ru/forum/
