Appt. required in Sulmona (AQ), Abruzzo

 Hi Katy Can't personally help you out as I know it must be difficult trying to get one in a Particular location; but I have a friend down that way who I will get in touch with, as I think he has family there. Can't promise anything but will PM you if anything turns up. Ciao G

Good luck with your search. You've sent the request out into the universe and no doubt the universe will respond!

I thought it might be helpful to update other readers on our situation.  We are now in a beautiful appartamento here in the CS of Sulmona, where we want to be, on a 12 month lease.  To be honest it wasn't easy and it did in fact take us nearly 2 months from start to finish.  For starters there is not much rental property here.  I think that the Italians generally are not as transient certainly as the Brits in this respect.  The situation is no doubt better in the larger towns and cities.  We explored all avenues and probably saw EVERYTHING that was vaguely suitable that was on offer - a total of about 8 flats.  We found that not only does 'unfurnished' mean without any kind of kitchen at all - just tiles and pipes strategically sticking out (we did know this before) but in a couple of cases it was obvious that real work needed to be done - painting and decorating as a bare minimum.  Anyway - we found this flat through a property agency that doesn't actually operate in the rental market at all.  But 'Oh! - we might have something - come back tomorrow and I'll see if I can get the keys...'  We have paid an agency fee of one month's rent for this but in the end it boiled down to how much we wanted this place.  There were extra fees however.  We anticipated a condominio charge on top of rent (thankfully only E10 here) but hadn't budgeted for another E55 as our share of the 'contract tax' (?). No big deal but these costs do mount up...Thankfully our landlords are delightful and have managed to dig out an old cot from Nonna's cantina for our little one and she has lent us some towels and bed linen on a short term basis.  All's well that ends well but another lesson in patience (not my strong point) and the need ALWAYS to go and talk to local people - do not rely on Tinterweb for this kind of stuff.