Moving to Copenhagen

You cannot rent an apartment or a room before arrival. Every serious renter will want to see who their future lodger is. And I would never trust my money to an unknown person without getting the keys at the same time so you'll have to wait until you have arrived.

But I am afraid that you'll find Copenhagen just as bad for house hunting as Boston, especially at this time of the year when Copenhagen is invaded by freshmen. The first months many of them have to sleep on a couch somewhere. Don't expect to find an apartment.

And by the way, neither do I think you'll say good-bye to hash weather, only to the Red Socks games. In these days it is all about Pokemon Go here.

I have copied below from another post:

DBA is a very used online service when it comes to apartments and rooms.
They are aware that there are many fake ads and they encourage you to inform them if you think an ad may be fake. They will then look into the matter.

Fake rentals are very often located in Copenhagen or in Aarhus, the ad itself is written in Danish, but the correspondance will be in English.

http://sikkerhed.dba.dk/artikler/falske-boligannoncer/
Read their good advice here so you avoid falling in the hands of scammers.

/Nellie

Thanks for reply Nellie,
I actually wanted to set up in advance viewing of few apartments with an agent, before I arrive, but that doesn't seem possible.
And well I had to redefine 'hash weather' after being buried in 3 m of snow beginning of 2015... or spending entire month at temperatures oscillating between -20 to warm -15C... I really hope nothing like that happens in Copenhagen.

Best
Monika