Signing A House Or Apartment Lease On A Tourist Visa

On a one-year house or apartment lease, that commonly means one month rent deposit and 3 months rent in advance.
-@OceanBeach92107

My experience is not the same as someone living with a Vietnamese lady but on a tourist visa now (previously TRC) ............We are on our 3rd rental apartment (1 year lease) & it has always been 2 months rent as deposit +1 months rent in advance. The landlord has then to go to the local "police" with the tenant who has signed the lease (Ms My) & register her & Goodolboy as living there.

We also rent out an apartment in D12 & the standard 1 year contract is the same (1 year lease) & it has always been 2 months rent as deposit + 1 months rent in advance. As a landlord we then have to give the Agent's company a finders fee of 1 months rent & they then take care of the contract & noting taking photos of like everything that moves or can be moved in the place & signing etc.

Ms My then has to go to the local "police" office with the new tenant & register the tenant noted on the lease as living there.

Renting as a landlord to Vietnamese is a whole different ball game & story though! in our experience that is.

On a one-year house or apartment lease, that commonly means one month rent deposit and 3 months rent in advance.
-@OceanBeach92107
My experience is not the same as someone living with a Vietnamese lady but on a tourist visa now (previously TRC) ............We are on our 3rd rental apartment (1 year lease) & it has always been 2 months rent as deposit +1 months rent in advance. The landlord has then to go to the local "police" with the tenant who has signed the lease (Ms My) & register her & Goodolboy as living there.
We also rent out an apartment in D12 & the standard 1 year contract is the same (1 year lease) & it has always been 2 months rent as deposit + 1 months rent in advance. As a landlord we then have to give the Agent's company a finders fee of 1 months rent & they then take care of the contract & noting taking photos of like everything that moves or can be moved in the place & signing etc.
Ms My then has to go to the local "police" office with the new tenant & register the tenant noted on the lease as living there.
Renting as a landlord to Vietnamese is a whole different ball game & story though! in our experience that is.
-@goodolboy

I might should have said that 1mo/3mo in advance is pretty much the standard ask currently here in Hội An

Vũng Tàu was only 1 + 1 for the apartments I saw, but I'm sure that could differ at other places.

Requirements in Quy Nhơn were varied.

Thanks guys you answered a question I hadn’t got round to asking. L🤣L

I had a nightmarish experience with the local security police due to the landlord in whom I rented a private house, Apparently he didn’t file the proper proper paperwork with the district security police, but only with the precinct one. So the police came to our place   Late in the  evening interviewed us with the landlord and the precinct head present and asked us to go filling out more paperwork at the district office the next day. I thought if just hand over copy of your passport to the landlord, like when you stay at a hotel, everything will be taken care of, but not so, we ended up not wanting to deal with hassle and scuttled the lease with the landlord and moved out. A lesson learn. Making sure the landlord knows how to register his property as an Airbnb or rental property with local authorities so they don’t come messing with you. Oh that was in ba vì a resort town 100 km northwest of Ha Noi.

Khai báo tạm trú cho người nước ngoài

(Online temporary residence declaration for foreigners)

Holding an account is mandatory where a property is to be rented to a foreigner. By creating an account, the landlord is registered as a lessor.

It is the landlord/lessor/property-manager who is required to register the foreign guest with the authorities, including passport and visa details, length of stay, etc. 

I'm told that police offices which used to accept handwritten declarations from landlords are now referring the landlords to the online platform.

Khai báo tạm trú cho người nước ngoài
(Online temporary residence declaration for foreigners)
Holding an account is mandatory where a property is to be rented to a foreigner. By creating an account, the landlord is registered as a lessor.

It is the landlord/lessor/property-manager who is required to register the foreign guest with the authorities, including passport and visa details, length of stay, etc.

I'm told that police offices which used to accept handwritten declarations from landlords are now referring the landlords to the online platform. - @Aidan in HCMC

I wish it were that easy here in Đà Nẵng.

We just renewed our lease for 3 years and we had to have the owner (a very old woman in Quảng Nam, south of here) brought up here to meet my wife at the police station so that her signature could be properly notarized.

She has to sponsor my wife at this temporary residence and then my wife sponsors me to live with her.

Since my wife isn't the landlord she can't use an online account.

Maybe it has to do with the owner living in another province; IDK 

Side note: When we renewed in October there was only 11 more months of validity on my 3 year TRC so my wife will need to re-register me after I get my new TRC (hopefully a 5 year this time).

Good news: the police said I will be able to get my new TRC here in Đà Nẵng (a provincial city) so we won't be required to return to Hà Nội.