For Tenants — Felmado

Starting Out

Before you sign anything

The moment before signing a rental contract is the moment when the most useful information matters most — and when tenants often have the least access to it. Understanding what you're agreeing to before you sign is significantly more useful than understanding it after.

Read every clause, not just the rent amount and duration

Understand the adjustment index and frequency before signing

Know the early termination conditions and penalties

Document the property's condition with photos on move-in day

Understand what guarantees are being required and why

Check community experiences with the agency before committing

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Finding a Rental

Community knowledge about what to look for when searching, which agency practices are common in different neighborhoods, and how to evaluate an offer before committing to a viewing.

Signing the Contract

What to read carefully, what to ask about, and what community members have found in contracts that wasn't immediately obvious. Common clauses explained in plain language.

Repairs & Maintenance

What the law says about repair responsibilities, how community members have handled repair requests, and letter templates for documenting repair requests formally.

Rent Adjustments

How adjustment indexes work in practice, what the current legislation establishes, and community experiences with adjustment disputes and how they were resolved.

Ending a Tenancy

Early termination rights and procedures, deposit return processes, common disputes at end of tenancy, and letter templates for notifying termination formally.

Difficult Situations

Community experiences with landlord disputes, agency misconduct, and other challenging situations. What options tenants have explored and what resources they found useful.

Common Questions

What tenants ask most often

These are the questions that appear most frequently in the community. Each has a dedicated thread in the forum with responses from members who have faced the same situation.

The community has extensive discussion on this topic. The first step is to verify the index published by the BCRA for the relevant period and compare it with what's being charged. Community members have shared their experiences requesting written justification from landlords and agencies, and the outcomes of those requests. The forum also has model letters for formally disputing an adjustment calculation. Note: this is community experience, not legal advice — for formal disputes, consult a qualified professional.

Unexpected charges from agencies are one of the most frequently discussed topics in the community. Members share which fees they've encountered, which are regulated by law, and how they've responded. The community also maintains a section on agency experiences where specific agencies' billing practices have been documented by members who dealt with them directly.

The forum has a dedicated section on repair disputes. Community members have shared the steps they took — from informal requests to formal written communications — and what outcomes they experienced. Letter templates for requesting repairs in writing are available in the contract tools section. Members have found that documenting requests formally changes the dynamic in many cases.

Early termination rights in Argentina have changed with recent legislation. The community has documented how the rules have evolved, what the current framework establishes, and how members have navigated early terminations in practice — including what happened with their deposits and how notice periods were handled. Always verify current legislation as it may have been updated since any specific community post.

Guarantee requirements are a significant barrier for many tenants in Argentina. The community has documented what alternatives exist, which agencies have accepted different types of guarantees, and how members have negotiated this aspect of the rental process. The forum includes threads specifically on guarantee alternatives that have worked in practice.

Community Knowledge

Your question might already have an answer

The archive contains community knowledge built up over time. Before posting a new question, search to see if your situation has already been discussed — and if not, your question will help future tenants too.

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