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Ever heard of speed renting?

4 pointsby denglishover 16 years ago

2 comments

andrewfover 16 years ago
Some background: there is a "rental crisis" in Australia, attributed to an economic boom which means:<p>- young people with skills in high demand are cashed up and moving out of home earlier<p>- there's a load of skilled and semi-skilled migrants coming into the country<p>The media will commonly run stories about 30 potential tenants turning up to inspections. This is the extreme - some locations/price ranges are not suffering high demand, and most properties fall somewhere in between.
tptacekover 16 years ago
<i>one catch: each had just three minutes to spruik themselves or their property before moving on.</i><p>"Spruik themselves"? Let's keep it clean, people.