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Short term renting in Galway

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  • 06-10-2010 2:13pm
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    JohnP199
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    I've just been offered work which will involve spending some time living in Galway. After one month I could be sent to another part of the Country for a period of time before returning to Galway for another term. Anyways my problem is that because of this I cant afford to sign a 12 month lease since I may only be in Galway 5 months of the year. Is it possible to rent rooms for a month at a time at a reasonable rate?


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    swe_fi
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭swe_fi


    JohnP199 wrote: »
    I've just been offered work which will involve spending some time living in Galway. After one month I could be sent to another part of the Country for a period of time before returning to Galway for another term. Anyways my problem is that because of this I cant afford to sign a 12 month lease since I may only be in Galway 5 months of the year. Is it possible to rent rooms for a month at a time at a reasonable rate?

    Yes you can in many cases. If there is an office you need to reach in Galway on a daily basis and if so where is it roughly and will you be driving there or relying on public transport?

    One important thing, make sure you get an apartment in the right location or you'll spend 8h working, 2h (not always but quite possible return journey) driving, your evening complaining about traffic here in this forum and then you'll spend the night having nightmares about traffic jams, roundabouts and upcoming road works :-)

    If you tell me what area your office is in I can tell you where to look for places. You'll love it here if you get a good setup, they'll have to drag you away.

    Oh, and bring a raincoat.


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    JohnP199
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    My work will invole travelling between the city centre/Headford rd area and Oranmore so Im open to suggestions of accommodation anywhere between these two localities! I know the traffic can be terrible at times but I wouldnt mind sitting in a traffic jam that bit longer if it meant getting a place at a lower rate.


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    swe_fi
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭swe_fi


    JohnP199 wrote: »
    My work will invole travelling between the city centre/Headford rd area and Oranmore so Im open to suggestions of accommodation anywhere between these two localities! I know the traffic can be terrible at times but I wouldnt mind sitting in a traffic jam that bit longer if it meant getting a place at a lower rate.

    Depends on what kind of "lifestyle" you are after then but Doughiska is smack bang in the middle of the 2. I lived there, not the most exciting place but ok. 10 mins/€10 to town in a taxi and quite frequent bus i think.

    Example - this says 1yr lease but i'd say it is negotiable in most cases
    http://www.daft.ie/searchrental.daft?id=908137

    Ballybane is another area

    Example - think price must be wrong here - it ain't the nicest area though
    http://www.daft.ie/searchrental.daft?id=922638

    If you scroll down on daft you'll see on the map where it is and then you can googlemaps Oranmore - Doughiska, Doughiska - Oranmore etc

    I live in Oranmore and I like the place but not sure i'd live there if I was in your situation. Maybe if you lived around here you'd be ok, it's on the "edge" of Oranmore towards town like 300m from dual carriageway

    French park
    http://www.daft.ie/searchrental.daft?id=960644

    Costa Na Mara - there's always places going here for some reason you can probably haggle on rent
    http://www.daft.ie/searchrental.daft?id=957015

    Actually always haggle on rent


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