Looking to rent in Santiago!!

[muchachablanca]

I'm looking to rent in Santiago ASAP! Living with my husband's family is great but we need our own space. He's busy with work and school so I'm home trying to find new housing. Any help??

[Hillbilly]

Get today's La Información and look in the classifieds??? That will be a start...

Why don't you work?

Hb

[PICHARDO]

Originally Posted by muchachablanca

I'm looking to rent in Santiago ASAP! Living with my husband's family is great but we need our own space. He's busy with work and school so I'm home trying to find new housing. Any help??

There are plenty rental agents in Santiago that can assist you with locating a nice place to live, for a fee.

If you take to the streets in those nabes you certainly would like to make your place to live at, by all means your odds of finding a cheaper and fast solution would multiply.

Most people place for rent/for sale on their properties.
You end up talking and dealing with the owners themselves.

The most luck would be in apartments, since private home owners are aware of the difficulties to evict renters. Most apartments are rented via a biz that already has connections with judges and law people that would expedite any order to vacate the premises pronto, unlike privateers.

I saw some apartments for rent in Villa Olga and La Moraleja as well some weeks ago.

[adrianb]

Originally Posted by PICHARDO

Most apartments are rented via a biz that already has connections with judges and law people that would expedite any order to vacate the premises pronto, unlike privateers.

Whats your evidence for this ?

[DRob]

Originally Posted by adrianb

Whats your evidence for this ?

I'm a little curious myself. Sounds almost like the Real Estate Cartel.

[Hillbilly]

You can be fairly sure that any "group" that rents out an apartment will be fairly well connected, since evictions are an everyday affair. Remember, Dominican law strongly favors the lessee not the lessor..( or something like that...)
Thing is, "proof" in this case is "everyone knows" , not case law...

If NYC had laws like the DR, rents would still be $100 a month for a 2BR wlk up W78th....

No matter, if the deal fits, go for it.

HB

[PICHARDO]

Originally Posted by adrianb

Whats your evidence for this ?

My brother in law happens to own a building in Cerros de Gurabo, where he conducts rentals and evictions with no problems.

In the court he PAYS a fee to the judge + lawyer when he needs an eviction done. To this day he hasn't failed to evict any non-payer on his property.

There's a big distinction on a renter that pays vs. a renter who fails to pay their rent. The court would issue an eviction order on regards to a renter that fails to pay rather than a renter that won't pay a rent increase.

He makes a very nice and formulated contract where rent increases are laid out in a way where renters must sign each agreement on the contract. Thus giving him the complete legal recourse to fall into.

Contracts are done in two year terms all the time with a renewal option on the part of the renters for one extra year under detailed conditions that fall under the law of the DR.

About renters that won't move after the contract expires? He got that covered with a little known fact that few people who offer rentals know about, but fewer will go for; he pays an added tax to rentas internas detailing his rental units as temporary hotel-like units which provides the vehicle to have the law on his side should he need to evict somebody that won't move once the rental contract is expired without a hitch.

Hotels rent short and log term to people all the time, hence the need for them to have special protection from the renter's biased law of the DR.

The down side to it, is that you have to pay the required per unit fee to RI so that you can have that protection and vehicle to remove people from the premises in court.
I believe that he files under "seasonal" rooming for the units rather than full time hotelier.
I'll ask him next time I speak to him...

Ask DR1's Guzman about the protection allowed to hotels and such biz in the real estate market of the DR if you have any questions on the legal side... Or consult a local lawyer to your liking!

[adrianb]

Well, your knowledge appears to extend much further than mine, so I'll hand it to you - good answer.

[Hillbilly]

And educational!! Thanks....

HB

[playacaribe2]

for the useful information regarding this special segment of rental law. As I am constructing a villa for possible rental, this information, if accurate, is extremely useful.

Regarding short term vacation/hotel type rentals, some states in the U.S. have certain provisions of their landlord-tenant law (innkeeper/lodging house) similar to that in the D.R.

However, those protections for landlords disappear after a set number of days, and I cannot think of any circumstances where those protections would be allowed on a one year lease or longer.

Again, Thanks for sharing your knowledge.


Respectfully,
Playacaribe2

Originally Posted by PICHARDO

My brother in law happens to own a building in Cerros de Gurabo, where he conducts rentals and evictions with no problems.

In the court he PAYS a fee to the judge + lawyer when he needs an eviction done. To this day he hasn't failed to evict any non-payer on his property.

There's a big distinction on a renter that pays vs. a renter who fails to pay their rent. The court would issue an eviction order on regards to a renter that fails to pay rather than a renter that won't pay a rent increase.

He makes a very nice and formulated contract where rent increases are laid out in a way where renters must sign each agreement on the contract. Thus giving him the complete legal recourse to fall into.

Contracts are done in two year terms all the time with a renewal option on the part of the renters for one extra year under detailed conditions that fall under the law of the DR.

About renters that won't move after the contract expires? He got that covered with a little known fact that few people who offer rentals know about, but fewer will go for; he pays an added tax to rentas internas detailing his rental units as temporary hotel-like units which provides the vehicle to have the law on his side should he need to evict somebody that won't move once the rental contract is expired without a hitch.

Hotels rent short and log term to people all the time, hence the need for them to have special protection from the renter's biased law of the DR.

The down side to it, is that you have to pay the required per unit fee to RI so that you can have that protection and vehicle to remove people from the premises in court.
I believe that he files under "seasonal" rooming for the units rather than full time hotelier.
I'll ask him next time I speak to him...

Ask DR1's Guzman about the protection allowed to hotels and such biz in the real estate market of the DR if you have any questions on the legal side... Or consult a local lawyer to your liking!