Rent a flat or a house in Belo Horizonte

We will be relocating to Belo Horizonte in October and recently visited to find an apartment. Thankfully, my husband's company will be handling all of the paperwork, but this is what I was told I would need if we were taking care of it ourselves:


ID
Marriage certificate
Some address “evidence”, in USA;
Work documents – contracts, working paper, etc
Annual income papers
Property documents (houses, cars, etc)


We used a real estate agency (Austen Imoveis: austenimoveis.com.br). A friend referred us to the relator that he had used (Raphael - the only English speaking realtor in the office). He showed us three places and we ended up going with one of them. We actually ended up in Nova Lima which is just on the other side of the Belvedere area of Belo Horizonte. Taxes are much cheaper in Nova Lima so that allowed us to get a nicer apartment that if we had stayed right in Belo Horizonte.

One piece of advice - rent is negotiable. The apartment that we ended up getting was originally listed at R 2.000,00  more a month than what we ended up getting it for. It may have helped that the building that we will be living in is very new and appears to be mostly vacant.   


I have a Brazilian friend who is a relator (but she only sells, does't deal with rentals) She recommended these two rental agencies:
larimoveis.com.br
anuardonato.com.br

Hi melissaguz!

Thanks for your help

Armand