rent $ cross over when moving?

[Tobily]

We ended up paying a cross over of a week, well you kind of have to pay a little bit extra, since you'll have to move everything from one house to another and have to clean the first house, which you can't do fully unless all the furntiure is out etc. i'm sure you know all that.

Yep that's the other reason we always pay a week of crossover. It's alot less stressful to move when you have some leeway to come and go between both houses until everything is done. Once we have everything out, we get cleaners in to clean it and then just hand in the keys after they're finished.

I can't imagine the stress of trying juggle things so that the house is empty and cleaned while moving furniture into the new one

[~Raven~]

When we rented we had the same issue and it made it less stressful for us to go back and clean with a bit of time up our sleeves. It's hard but it's something you can budget for if you have a bit of time to save for it.

[Salsa]

I am happy to pay a week or even 2 for cross over, and am expecting we will need that for cleaning. Its just our notice to vacate is 4 weeks, and all the places for rent are available straight away. We live in the inner north of Melbourne, so alot of demand and not alot of places. We owned our own home previous so no history of being good tenants. We did actually have to wait 2 weeks to be able to move into this place though a year ago, but now it seems most places dont have wait times - they want you in straight away. With rent prices around $400 pw, a months double rent is alot of extra to have to folk out.
I guess we will just have to wait and see what comes up.

[DoubleK]

we've had to adjust our move in/move out dates a few times. one of the good things about living in a small town, all the RA's know each other, so it makes it easier if you're going from one to another!

the last time we moved, we picked up the new keys on the friday, and handed old keys back on the monday... to really we only paid a few days 'double'