Find your first Sydney home

This fun, practical workshop teaches you exactly how to find, inspect, and land your first rental in Sydney

Sydney is exciting… until you start looking for a place to live. Then suddenly it’s bidding wars, paperwork, inspections, and applications that feel like job interviews.This 1-hour workshop, run in collaboration with UNSW Founders, is your no-BS guide to surviving (and winning) the Sydney rental game. Hosted by reKro, a prop-tech startup built for students and young professionals, we’ll walk you through exactly how to land your first home—step by step.

What you’ll learn:
🏠 How the Sydney rental market actually works
📄 The documents you need (and the ones you didn’t know you needed)
✨ How to make your rental application stand out
👀 Inspection hacks: what to look for and what to avoid
🚩 How to spot scams before they spot you
🤝 What happens after you get approved—leases, bonds, utilities & the “hidden” stuff
💡 Bonus: Tips to increase your chances even in a competitive market

Website Linkwww.rekro.com.au

About reKro

reKro is the prop-tech startup making long-term renting way less painful for students and young professionals. We partner with landlords as a corporate tenant and offer secure, affordable, ready-to-move-in rooms so you don’t have to deal with rental chaos the hard way. With reKro you can secure your first long term rental as easy as booking an airbnb.

About Reuben Roy

Reuben Roy is the founder of reKro and your unofficial “Sydney rental translator.” After navigating the housing maze himself, he built reKro to help newcomers skip the stress and get straight to finding a place they can call home

About UNSW Founders:

As Australia’s leading university-based entrepreneurial program, UNSW Founders has a proven track record of success. Since its inception in 2018, the program has supported 200+ startups every year, provided entrepreneurial skills training to 25,000+ individuals, provided over 10,000 coaching and mentoring sessions, and incubated (co-located) 70+ startups on campus to foster collaboration with the UNSW business, industry, academic, and research networks.

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