One note that I forgot to mention in the previous post - our agent didn't accept credit cards and wasn't willing to wait a week for an international bank transfer to come through (this despite the fact that we had been hassling her for literally months for instructions on how to pay our rent!). Instead, we had to walk up to Citibank and extract the R4,950 (about $C3,300) required to cover bond, rent and agent commission for our entire stay out of an ATM! All I can say is thank god Citibank are not very good at flagging unusual transactions, because they had no problem giving me around $C2,500 out of my account. We then had to carry this huge wad of cash back to our apartment block along a crazy busy street. Good thing Ave. Paulista (see photo) has banks on every corner, and as a result just about the highest concentration of police and security guards in the city!
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