This is a snap! To do this you need only decide what you can do everything yourself, without professional help. Correct: Why overpay agents who loudly advertise their big companies, when in any newspaper offers apartments from owners, and apartments for rent shall be as actively as in the long term?
In fact, it is high risk coupled with the reluctance to overpay mediators lead to the fact that until now many believe the only possible option for a hotel accommodation. In the meantime, if you do not pre-booking of suitable rooms, you might as well you can stay on the streets with suitcases in hand: room just will not be available, especially when it comes to the high tourist season. But, at least, the hotel is not deceived and did not take money without giving in return some sort of accommodation! That's the way it is so, but perhaps you need "some sort"? Is it not better still to think in advance about the selection of a suitable option? And believe me: rent apartment should not be so immediately exclude from searches. The main thing - to know who to pay attention, and who warms his hands on gullible tourists and visitors.
First, remember: do not always "reservation service" - an agent or intermediary. Today is taken as apartments that are offered for lease, under the full management of your own: accordingly, the company that you inadvertently call it a 'mediator', the contract with the property owner and as a result becomes entitled to use the apartment - lease it under certain conditions. To say that the company, in this case, a mediator does not have to, because apartment actually belongs to her, although with some restrictions. For example, to sell her company can not, but to let pass - always please. So before you pick up an apartment in a company, be sure to pay attention to our work: If the percentage of the service contract company is taking - it is a mediator, and he is sure to highlight it, either in conversation or on the website. If your interest is not interested in the company - it is not a mediator, a manager, and it will not just stressed, and emphasis in all possible ways!
And secondly, be aware that this announcement "from host" - is a rare and large the same risk, even if the apartment is indeed given by the owner. Suppose old woman, whom you decide to rent an apartment for rent, the truth is the property owner. The roof of course you will receive, only to lose it can at any time. Grandma can suddenly change his mind and put you on the street, the more unlikely that you will enter into a contract. It can also indicate to you that you have the right to do in the apartment and check everything every evening, and the rules may be even stricter than in hotels. Finally, it is unlikely to agree to give you my grandmother temporary registration, and at the first post may have trouble with the police. Should I look for such ads if found by the roof at any moment "go" in an unknown direction?
However, there may even not particularly worry - we looked at this danger only in theory. In practice, 99,999% ad "apartment for rent by owner" - a veiled News Agency, which deals oblaposhivaniem guests. And they are working on one and the same scheme. The announcement indicated an unbelievably good apartment for rent in the center of Tomsk, with stunning views and the value of 1500 - 2000 rubles per day. Two rooms full of furniture and just make the repairs, security door and the concierge, kitchen and bathroom, stuffed with technology ... Is not it lucky? Of course, clients call to the number, and they say - you think, come to sign the contract? No, it would be too suspicious: how could such an apartment to be free, really? Of course, the phone company employee meets with regret that the apartment had left five minutes after the publication of the advertisement, but here's luck - on the parallel phone he had just been informed that another nearby vacant apartment. The businessman, who was to settle in there, abruptly changed the route at the last moment, and the apartment (all the above plus high-speed Internet and computer) is all alone. All fifteen hundred rubles a day - the owners are ready for such a price, because the apartment should be handed over almost "yesterday". Such an offer you, by chance, not interested?
Of course, the address of a miracle apartment on the phone you no one will, but most likely you have already managed to forget that originally it was about the apartments from the owner, right? If you only need to pay a thousand a day, what a difference that managers need to pay for the services of some 500 rubles extra! With these prices, you know you can and agencies to work ... And you are coming to the office of the company - to recognize and address of the apartment to sign the contract, which you can even read, maybe you will not: to rent an apartment with the conclusion of the treaty - a normal civilized practice. Once the contract has no relation to the apartment: it regulates your cooperation with the company, which is called "news agency" and provides you with exclusive information, rather than actually living space. Once you pay in cash the company, you are given a welcome address, or phone home. And of course, surrendering anything in that direction will not, and by phone owners over you just laugh. And you would have laughed in their place - a thousand a day for an apartment in the center of Tomsk, so even with all the necessities of life?
From all this you can draw only one conclusion: in what form you would not have stopped - a hotel room or a daily rent of apartments - need to work with professionals, regardless of whether intermediaries are either directly controlled. Just to avoid paying the extra money, you need to start looking at least not before the trip! The fact that real estate agents to find a simpler and faster than a good booking service, which will prompt you for a flat price and not only will arrange more "rip-off", but in the "low season" will offer some discounts.
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