Help - advice on short term lets please!

[SE22mum]

We may have to look for a short term rental in order to keep a house sale. Does anyone have any ideas of which are the best sites to look at? About how much is normal to pay?

[buggie]

Would suggest looking at Open Rent - doesn't specifically deal with

short rents, but you do deal directly with the landlords & overheads

on the site are so low, they may be more aminable to short/6m rent.

We found a local flat for while we have work done on the house & ended

up taking out a 6m contract but even those were rare & we have needed

nearly all the 6m's), but found it all much less stressful than dealing

with estate agents.

[yeknomyeknom]

Try airbnb

[Loz]

SE22mum Wrote:

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> We may have to look for a short term rental in

> order to keep a house sale. Does anyone have any

> ideas of which are the best sites to look at?

> About how much is normal to pay?

Try the "Residential property in East Dulwich" section of this very site. There are usually quite a few in there. Rent is usually similar the to the standard rental amount you'd pay for longer periods.

[goldilocks]

If you go through an agent - ie foxtons type the short term let fees will be significantly higher than market rent - but really they're aimed at people on work placements etc and are typically fully furnished including crockery etc. If you need a short term let for a house sale, looking on here is probably a good bet or airbnb as noted by the previous poster.

[LouieM]

We needed somewhere to stay for 6 weeks in the summer and stayed in some holiday let apartments in Catford of all places. They weren't glamorous but had a fab indoor swimming pool which kept the kids happy and you can book week by week. Here's the website

http://www.londonselfcatering.co.uk/

Good luck