@momnijosh08
Hello! Congratulations on receiving your visa grant. In my case, I was granted my visa last December 2015 and I planned to land in Brisbane on June 2016. I looked for different places to rent as soon as my visa was granted, but I kept on getting refused because my date of arrival was so far away. So I ended up just looking for a room for rent in a houseshare a few weeks away from my date of arrival and then asked a friend to inspect the room for me. I stayed in that houseshare for about 6 months and eventually applied for my own apartment through an agency (LJ Hooker) and then been living in that apartment ever since.
Now, in your case, since you have relatives in Brisbane, perhaps you can ask them to inspect the places for you as well. To answer your other questions:
<blockquote class="Quote">Tsaka parehas ba dito satin na may 1 month deposit 1 month advance ang bayadan? Cash payment o pwede card?
Thank you</blockquote>
Usually, the payment is two weeks worth of rent plus bond, which is an additional 4 weeks worth of rent. (Note: As defined by Residential Tenancies Authority, a rental bond is a security deposit a tenant pays at the start of a tenancy. It is held by the RTA and is paid back to the tenant at the end of the tenancy provided no money is owed to the property manager/owner for rent, damages or other costs.) So, for instance, if my rent is $340 per week, my initial payment would be $680 for two weeks worth of rent plus $1360 for bond, so a total of $2040. Payment through bank transfer is the common way of paying for rent here. đŸ™‚