Inclusive of water and electricity

Hello,

Unless you live in a very large house BD 30 cap for water and electricity is enough and rarely goes over. Yes it is the norm. Some landlords give BD 25.

BD20 - 30 is normal. Mine is more like BD400 in the summer with the AC running but our villa is stupidly large. Our first villa was all inclusive to a max of BD50 a month and we were never asked to pay extra. That was a 4 bed villa on a small compound.

Make sure to add in your contract the diplomatic clause - if you lose your job you can walk away giving one months notice.

Also put a 5% cap on landlord increasing rent each year.

Both of these will protect you more. Also if your lease is 2 year, make sure that it states you can leave after one year (giving a months notice)

Ours was 50bd at our last place and we only went over once.

We have a brilliant landlord now and there is no cap at all