Chile Forum

Hi, I'm french living in Santiago since april. When I arrived, I tried many bed and breakfast, or hostals before to find my appartment. So if you want some advice or info i'll be glad to help!

hi im planning me move to sanitago but im having trouble finding rents online
any suggestions?
i want a 2 bedroom apartment in santigao not in a rich area and not in a dump average place any suggestions?

davidday wrote:hi im planning me move to sanitago but im having trouble finding rents online
any suggestions? . . . .

Yes: peruse the online classified advertisements of the major newspapers in Santiago. You'll find plenty.

Hi there,

My family is planning to move to Santiago in April and we would like to find a house near the internatonal school Nido de Aguilas. We have two elementary aged boys and would like a nice place to live. It is hard to find accommodation online.

Any suggestions?

A lot of the websites for the realtors are out of date - I see houses advertised on their that were advertised when we moved to Santiago a few years ago. But, you should be able to contact the realtors via email to get an updated list. I will get the name of a couple of realtors and PM you the details tomorrow, don't think I have enough posts to post a link.

Hi L'Ambassade.
I;m planning to visit Chile in Febuary,for 1 month. I plan on staying in Santiago for 2 weeks.
I'm looking for a hostel in the $20-$30(U.S.) range. Something simple thats quiet,clean and has a kitchen I can use.
If you have any suggestions that would be great!
Richard.

Price4,

with your children in Nido (our daughter is moving there next year too from her current school), you can live anywhere in La Dehesa, Lo Barnechea, Vitacura or Las Condes, as the furthest away will be a 20 minute or so drive (depending on traffic. Nido starts later than the other schools, so most of the heavy traffic is missed). Nido is in La Dehesa, so that would be your most convenient choice of suburb. The area has a lot of expats, most of the diplomatic staff live around there, good shopping malls and is a safe environment, mostly houses. Las Condes is great if you are after an apartment instead.

The school also has an safe and reliable bus service (external contractor though, but that's the norm here), which picks and drops the children from your front door.

Most people we know, do a reconnaissance mission over here to find a home before they pack up and move. It is much easier being here and inspecting houses, than to find it over the internet. The real estate sites are not that great, but

http://www.corredoresintegrados.cl/

is a good place to start to educate yourself about pricing.

We moved here and first stayed in a apart-hotel (http://www.boulevardsuites.cl) while we looked for a house. We had to stay there about 6 weeks before our house was ready and our container arrived.

There are a number of relocation consultants (I can't name any here, as I would probably get a black dot next to my name) that speak good English and that cater mostly for the Nido crowd. As much as I think most relocation consultants are a blatant rip-off (the fees they charge are absolutely outrageous), I found that the good real estate agents don't speak English (the ones we met that did were atrocious), so unless you are fluent in Spanish (if so, I can give you the name and number of our real estate agent), you will need some help with finding a home.

Let me know if you have any other questions, I'm happy to answer.

Tombi,

Thank you for that website. It was really helpful. I am just wondering if the houses to rent come furnished or unfurnished?

Best,
Stephanie

99.9% come unfurnished, I haven't heard of anyone moving into a furnished place, but I know most just furnish cheap (it is cheaper than sending a container if you are not coming for a long time) and then sell off when they leave again.

depending on what you're looking for..

http://www.homechile.cl/ingles/principal.asp

http://www.<BANNED LINK>/en/housing-in-chile.php

http://www.compartodepto.cl/

If you are looking to rent a long-term apartment in Chile, and want excellent customer service and a hassle free experience, then don't use <banned company name>! My wife, sister-in-law and I recently (April 2011) rented an apartment in Santiago through <banned company name> and it was disaster. The apartment hadn't been cleaned in months! In fact, we told by the concierge that the prior tenants of the apartment had left only an hour before we had arrived! There was dust on every horizontal service, the towels, bed sheets and shower curtains were disgusting, several light bulbs were missing from the lamps - one lamp appeared to have faulty wiring, as our replacement bulbs kept blowing out. One of the beds was an old broken child's bed, with a urine stained mattress. There was even a bag of rotting salad in on of the kitchen cabinets!

I was only scheduled to stay in Santiago a week, and unfortunately, the first day and a half of my visit was spent hanging around as the apartment had to be cleaned: time I would have preferred to be sightseeing. And to make matters worse, the owner of the apartment refused to provide a receipt for the $400,000 pesos in cash we gave him, and Malte Sieber, the owner of <banned company name> has refused to return any of my calls, and has been very rude to my sister-in-law. We used an agency in the hopes of receiving a clean, professionally managed apartment: were we ever wrong.