Houses to rent in Tataouine Nord

A whole house to rent in Tataouine is often the house of someone who has left. Gone to Tunis for work, to France or Libya years ago, or simply moved in with their children. The house stays in the family, nobody sells it, but it is let so that it stays lived in, looked after, and brings in a little. These houses make up most of the supply in Tataouine Nord.

The listings are few and posted by the owners or by a relative still in town, who shows people round. Houni shows their number and you contact them directly. For more choice, the houses to rent across the Tataouine governorate cover all the delegations.

Who rents a whole house

Families first: a posted couple with three children will not fit in a house floor, and look for a house with a courtyard where the children can play out of the sun and the dust. Managers next, sometimes housed by their employer, who want a gate, a garage and a living room to receive guests. And now and then a company or a building site housing several workers under one roof, provided the owner agrees.

The yearly house rental is the rule in Tataouine. Short leases hardly exist, except in summer, when a family home for the holidays rents an absent neighbour's house for a month, and that is settled between acquaintances. Rents for a whole house stay moderate by national standards, but a recent, well finished house in Ennozha goes for clearly more than an old house in Oued El Ghar. A few guest houses take in visitors to the ksour, but they belong to tourism, not to residential renting.

What you find, sector by sector

In Oued El Ghar, family houses on large plots, with an inner courtyard, several bedrooms and sometimes an old majel, the underground cistern, dominate the supply. They are spacious, but their comfort depends on what the owners have renovated. In Ennozha, recent subdivision houses, more compact, well finished, with a garage, rent for more and go fast. Ettadhamen offers modest houses at gentler prices. In Telelt you get more land around the house, at the cost of a longer trip into the centre.

A villa to rent in Tataouine, in the sense of a large detached house with a garden, remains rare. The closest thing is the Ennozha houses of families working abroad, carefully built for the summer return and let for the rest of the year.

Watch this detail: many of these houses are let on condition that they are vacated in July and August, when the family comes back. Get this point set down in writing before you sign. A one-year lease that makes you move out every summer is nothing like a yearly rental, and an honest owner says so at the first viewing.

An empty house, extra checks

A house that has stood closed for a while sometimes hides surprises. Turn on the taps, run the pump, check the condition of the cistern and the water heater. Go up on the roof terrace: the rare rains of the south are enough to reveal tired waterproofing. Look at the window and door frames, because the sand wind wears the seals and lets the dust in.

Agree with the owner, or with the relative acting for them, who pays for major repairs and who decides in their absence. The lease must be written, registered at the tax office, and state the deposit and the advance. If the owner lives abroad, ask who collects the rent and how: a traceable transfer is better than an envelope handed to a neighbour.

If a whole house is beyond your budget, the homes to rent in Tataouine Nord include house floors with a separate entrance. And if you are thinking of settling for good, look at the houses for sale in Tataouine Nord.