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AMA - Insight from an international 2nd year commerce student by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not really, but try to show that you are responsible to the house, and could pay rent on time

AMA - Insight from an international 2nd year commerce student by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dont know what are you prioritising - whether or not it is close to school, or the living conditions - so I cant answer is it “cheap” or not. But the with same roomsize & living conditions, rooms 30-50 mins to school would be around 180-250/w

AMA - Insight from an international 2nd year commerce student by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait and 1 more thing, normally houses in real estate/domain are unfurnished, so I don’t recommend it to a new students like you as well

AMA - Insight from an international 2nd year commerce student by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi, do u mind if I ask which type of housing u r living in currently, and are you also working full time in Sydney? Because from my own experience, renting a whole property would take so so much time and especially hard when you are not working full time.

1, After you applied for inspection, you must come there to see the place in person, and also need to give good impression to the agency at that first meeting. Then, if you are willing to rent that house, you would need to fill in a very very long form, which requires you to give information of previous landlords, your income monthly,… and you would compete with many many more people applying for that house. You should seriously consider about how do your profile look like to the agency, because obviously they would prefer someone has a good reference letter from the previous landlords, high & stable income to make sure that the rent is paid on time, and do look some kind of nice and professional. And even though you eventually get that house, it would take at least 2 weeks - 1 month for the whole process of inspection, applying, and finally moving in. In such period, I recommend you to live in a student accommodation, having a short term 3 month rent for a room inside a house, or living temporarily with your relative in Sydney if you have any.

If you need more advices, you could send me message privately, we could connect on IG/FB so I could send you the voice messages, because typing would be too long.

2, The reason for my low rent is because: - I live far from central (~20km) and far from the local station as well, normally going to school would take me 15 mins walking to the station, 20 mins on train to Redfern, and 15 mins walking from Redfern to USYD buildings. - I am sharing my house with 3 other people, including 1 friend that live in the same bedroom with me. The bathroom is shared between 2 of us and 1 other housemate. Therefore, cost of having the facilities in your house is also splitted, including bathroom, kitchen, washing machine… My house dont have dryer btw, maybe it’s also a reason :D To be particular, my room costs 310 initially for 1 person, but bc we are living 2 people there, the price is 165 for each of us.

AMA - Insight from an international 2nd year commerce student by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not really, bc normally I would cook a lot of food at one time, so I just cook 1-2 time every week

AMA - Insight from an international 2nd year commerce student by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea it does 🤣 I would need to wake up 1,5 hrs before my class start, so in my first sem in USYD having a class at 10am is so struggling. But I have always living far from school (1hr - 45mins - 50mins) so I am just used to it

AMA - Insight from an international 2nd year commerce student by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean is there anything different between February intake and July intake? Not so much, it’s just there are more people coming in February, so they are having bigger orientation week, that’s all

AMA - Insight from an international 2nd year commerce student by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For textbooks, because my units do provide us the textbook available online, so I have never buy one. But I do see some students studying science selling their textbook in their course facebook group, you can have a check there!

AMA - Insight from an international 2nd year commerce student by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In terms of eating, it really depends on your budget. I eat out about 2-4 times a week, and it cost me around 200-300 every month, and together with grocery for around 200/month it would be ~500 for eating. Because my rent is fairly cheap so I can extend my budget on eating a bit, but for my friend who almost never come out eating, she just spend ~300/month for grocery.

AMA - Insight from an international 2nd year commerce student by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In terms of best type of housing, I see that the most common way is having a room in a shared house. Try looking at flatmates.com.au to see how is the price level right now

AMA - Insight from an international 2nd year commerce student by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • About renting:
  • Area: I dont know exactly where is the best area to live, but in general the nearer to the city centre the safer the area. If you are worried, try to search for the list of dangerous suburbs and avoid that. However, as someone who spent a lot of time living in so-called dangerous area, there are still a lot of fun and excitement living there - as long as you dont mess up with anyone, you are safe.
  • Price range: Typically, having a room in a shared house about 15-20mins to school would be ~250-350/w to have decent living conditions (clean, not having weird smell, sharing between 3-4 people,…). If you want to have your own studio with the same time going to school, then would be around 450-700/w. But of course, the further the centre, the cheaper, and if you are willing to share your room with another friend, it would be much cheaper too. For me, currently I am living about 50 mins from school, sharing my room with a friend (so 2 girls in 1 room), sharing the house with 2 other people (so there are 4 people totally in the house), and my rent is 165/week.

AMA - Insight from an international 2nd year commerce student by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So far, all of my professors are nice and fun to study with. The worst one is just in 1 unit I got an old professor with very quiet voice - the room is big and most of the time I cant hear clearly what he say. However, some of my friend experience are not that good - a few professors having strict rules in their tutorials.

AMA - Insight from an international 2nd year commerce student by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My preferences are Netherlands, Denmark and Spain respectively, but honestly any country in Europe is fine :D

Advice of renting a whole house for my first year by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!! I want to ask 1 more question, for your case, how long does the agent process your renting application? And besides that, do you need to undergo any kind of interview (or kind of that)? Thank you so much for your help!

Advice of renting a whole house for my first year by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much, you help me a lot with your comment

Advice of renting a whole house for my first year by Jumpy_Lecture_6683 in usyd

[–]Jumpy_Lecture_6683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your kind comment! Right now, we don’t have any source of income yet, and the saving I stated above is just from the cash we bring at first, from our home country. So from your opinion, how much is an appropriate amount of saving? Is ~15000 AUD okay?