Landing Stay & House Lease

It’s pretty easy to get a stay arranged in US. All the reservation to the Hotel can be done through online reservation systems. You will have to use your credit card to do the reservation. Few of the hotels are www.marriot.com; www.choicehotels.com; Please do the reservation in advance. The reservation can be canceled in most of the places till 24 hours before the start date of the stay. However check the policies before doing the reservation. Having said that, you should probably try to get a stay arranged at your friends place because that makes it more comfortable stay J. Another point to remember is that most of the hotels will have only breakfast (some of them give it free). This information will be available in the website itself and it changes from hotel to hotel. For other times in the day, you will have to go to near by places for food.

House for Rent

Houses are available for lease. The duration of lease will be anywhere up from 6 months. This means that you sign a contract with the leasing company for a stipulated period of stay. The rent will be fixed while signing the contract for the contract period. For smaller cities, the rent will be 700 USD for single bed room apartments and for bigger cities it can go higher. If you know that you are going to stay there for a longer duration , you can think of signing lease for longer duration to lock down the rent. The leasing company increases the rent every time you renew the lease. You can break the lease by paying a lease breakage fee. This should be mention in the contract. It can be amount equaling to a month or 2 month rent. Mostly the houses or apartments will be owned by a leasing company. You can search for lease availability in your area in www.rent.com. Whenever you get into lease agreements, look out for discounts, some places have move in specials like first month rent free, few amount off from first month rental etc. You can expect partially furnished apartments in most cases which might include a fridge, dishwasher, washing machine and a dryer, microwave, heater and air conditioner. But, this varies from apartment to apartment. Some places will have laundry unit as part of your apartment while some will have it as a common place. If you are going to cold areas like Michigan, check if you have a good heater in the unit. The temperature can go as low as -20F outside and you need good heaters to maintain the room temperature. Some apartments give heating power as free and it’s really worth if you can get this offer. Also check with your colleagues if they can help, the leasing contracts are flexible and it can be changed, but once signed, it cannot be changed. After completing a fixed lease term, you can either extend the lease for another lease term or go for a month to month contract.