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.