Need Room in Sihanoukville- 8 months min.
Need Room in Sihanoukville- 8 months min.
Last year, I had a room (downtown) as described below for $200/ month plus utilities:
Today, I saw a room, same as the room I had last year, but the landlady (nice woman) wants $500/month, utilities included, far from downtown.
Last years room was a bit worn, but everything worked. The room I saw today is newly refurbished.This doesn’t matter to me, I just don’t want cockroaches (if possible), mice or rats.
Please read below, tell me what a reasonable rate is for what I’m looking for.
Thanks!
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Hi!
About your place, does it have WiFi?
I’m looking for a place that is quiet (I’m an insomniac).
Other than that, I want a place that must have WiFi and TV, air-con, refrigerator, and a fan.
I want a room for 8 months- maybe longer.
How much deposit do you want? How much will be returned to me when I leave your place?
Thank You!
Today, I saw a room, same as the room I had last year, but the landlady (nice woman) wants $500/month, utilities included, far from downtown.
Last years room was a bit worn, but everything worked. The room I saw today is newly refurbished.This doesn’t matter to me, I just don’t want cockroaches (if possible), mice or rats.
Please read below, tell me what a reasonable rate is for what I’m looking for.
Thanks!
______________________________________
Hi!
About your place, does it have WiFi?
I’m looking for a place that is quiet (I’m an insomniac).
Other than that, I want a place that must have WiFi and TV, air-con, refrigerator, and a fan.
I want a room for 8 months- maybe longer.
How much deposit do you want? How much will be returned to me when I leave your place?
Thank You!
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I can let you have a nice quiet studio with A/c, wall fan, cooking facilities, moto parking, locked gate, close to convenience store, refrigerator, 50 inch TV,,, 10 MB fiber optic internet. Plus electricity at just 1100 per kwh. For just $290 per month for an 8 month contract. If you want a good serviced moto included that is just $75 pm extra.
If you want double space, a 1 bedroom place it is only $550 per month.
If you want double space, a 1 bedroom place it is only $550 per month.
Note to self: Must be nice to morons.
Prices have gone crazy down here I seen refurbished $100 dollar rooms advertised for $250 the other day, new paint can not alone justify that increase, landlords are being super greedy except the ones already burned by the Chinese who now wont rent to them due to the damage to property. I know of some Khmers who were initially given rooms by Casinos they worked for then moved to rooms further away then further away and had to pay for them plus transport so much so they gave up their jobs and moved to Phnom Penh where although they will earn less they can still afford to rent a room that suits them. That's awful.
Anyway if the op goes up to the main market and passes it then takes a right where the sometimes working lights are head down that road and in time you should find somewhere reasonably priced off one of the side roads that will meet your needs. Good Luck your going to need it and try avoid paying over $200 for a studio..You just missed a decent 2 bedroom apartment out on the above road with lounge, kitchen, 2 toilets and balcony for $250......
Anyway if the op goes up to the main market and passes it then takes a right where the sometimes working lights are head down that road and in time you should find somewhere reasonably priced off one of the side roads that will meet your needs. Good Luck your going to need it and try avoid paying over $200 for a studio..You just missed a decent 2 bedroom apartment out on the above road with lounge, kitchen, 2 toilets and balcony for $250......
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If the market rate for those rooms is now $250 due to Chinese demand and limited supply, I would suggest that landlords are not being super greedy by asking for $250.Baconroll wrote:Prices have gone crazy down here I seen refurbished $100 dollar rooms advertised for $250 the other day, new paint can not alone justify that increase, landlords are being super greedy except the ones already burned by the Chinese who now wont rent to them due to the damage to property.
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+1gavinmac wrote:If the market rate for those rooms is now $250 due to Chinese demand and limited supply, I would suggest that landlords are not being super greedy by asking for $250.Baconroll wrote:Prices have gone crazy down here I seen refurbished $100 dollar rooms advertised for $250 the other day, new paint can not alone justify that increase, landlords are being super greedy except the ones already burned by the Chinese who now wont rent to them due to the damage to property.
Markets move.
When they move upwards those on fixed incomes or living on dimishing capital call it greed.
Property rental is a business like any other, subject to demand and supply, increased demand results in increased prices. To not move rents up. Is the same as workers not taking pay increases.
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LaudJohn wrote: To not move rents up. Is the same as workers not taking pay increases.
Right. If half the white dudes left Cambodia overnight and most of the remaining English teachers making $10 an hour started changing employers and moving to schools paying $20 an hour, I wouldn't call them greedy either.
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I still love the town but doesn't the magnificent exponential rise from ''Shitsville'' to ''The New Macau'' feel abit unsustainable though?
What happens to all of the leases , if for some reason there is a vacuum of casino workers out of the town? The over supply could be nasty and prices could get whacked no?
BBQ alley is no more (looks full of closed make believe shops). Half the beach shacks have been served eviction.
Casinos built by and full of foreign workers. The town full of empty illegitimate looking businesses with no english script. The town is putting all it's eggs in one basket no?
''The New Macau'' sounds like something that could be promoted easily to gullible investors. Classic pump and dump stuff? Even that sausage looking Bitcoin chap is setting up here cos it's so easy.
Online casinos rooms can surely be set up in many countries with empty buildings? Maybe money laundering not so easy as here though?
Khmer's getting kicked out of rooms all over town. They either have to pay more or size down.
I'm still looking after a khmer's dog cos they don't have room for him.
What happens to all of the leases , if for some reason there is a vacuum of casino workers out of the town? The over supply could be nasty and prices could get whacked no?
BBQ alley is no more (looks full of closed make believe shops). Half the beach shacks have been served eviction.
Casinos built by and full of foreign workers. The town full of empty illegitimate looking businesses with no english script. The town is putting all it's eggs in one basket no?
''The New Macau'' sounds like something that could be promoted easily to gullible investors. Classic pump and dump stuff? Even that sausage looking Bitcoin chap is setting up here cos it's so easy.
Online casinos rooms can surely be set up in many countries with empty buildings? Maybe money laundering not so easy as here though?
Khmer's getting kicked out of rooms all over town. They either have to pay more or size down.
I'm still looking after a khmer's dog cos they don't have room for him.
"I don't care what the people are thinking, i ain't drunk i'm just drinking"
the market rate... a lot of those rooms were rented by Khmers who can now longer afford them and now have to either live an hour away just to keep their jobs here even at higher wages the increase in rent/travel costs has made it unsustainable for a lot of them and some have moved to other parts of the country - their country - to live and work.gavinmac wrote:If the market rate for those rooms is now $250 due to Chinese demand and limited supply, I would suggest that landlords are not being super greedy by asking for $250.Baconroll wrote:Prices have gone crazy down here I seen refurbished $100 dollar rooms advertised for $250 the other day, new paint can not alone justify that increase, landlords are being super greedy except the ones already burned by the Chinese who now wont rent to them due to the damage to property.
A little room is still a little room fresh paint or not.
It's understandable some Cambodian landlords are taking advantage of this, but I know a few who will only rent single rooms to Chinese not the whole building and are NOT increasing the rent to long term tenants by more than a $1 a day for long term good tenants.
The Chinese by the way tend, for those of you not down by the sea, tend to want to rent whole buildings, stick 4-6 bunk beds in each room, put up a solid gate out front and bar the land lord or anyone else from poking their nose in...
LaudJohn wrote:+1gavinmac wrote:If the market rate for those rooms is now $250 due to Chinese demand and limited supply, I would suggest that landlords are not being super greedy by asking for $250.Baconroll wrote:Prices have gone crazy down here I seen refurbished $100 dollar rooms advertised for $250 the other day, new paint can not alone justify that increase, landlords are being super greedy except the ones already burned by the Chinese who now wont rent to them due to the damage to property.
Markets move.
When they move upwards those on fixed incomes or living on dimishing capital call it greed.
Property rental is a business like any other, subject to demand and supply, increased demand results in increased prices. To not move rents up. Is the same as workers not taking pay increases.
Workers get a pay increase that has to go in inflated rents or have to commute from dumps of rooms kilometers away adding travel costs and loss of their time - sucks for the Khmers going through this -
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Yet I rarely hear Westerners say "It sucks for Khmers that they can no longer afford to live around the Riverside, Boeng Keng Kang, or Russian Market because the influx of white people has driven the rents too high for them."Baconroll wrote: Workers get a pay increase that has to go in inflated rents or have to commute from dumps of rooms kilometers away adding travel costs and loss of their time - sucks for the Khmers going through this -
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Did those PP Khmers see a jump in earnings from $100-ishto $300+ a month? that happened to some here but still no rooms they can afford because of the sharp rent risegavinmac wrote:Yet I rarely hear Westerners say "It sucks for Khmers that they can no longer afford to live around the Riverside, Boeng Keng Kang, or Russian Market because the influx of white people has driven the rents too high for them."Baconroll wrote: Workers get a pay increase that has to go in inflated rents or have to commute from dumps of rooms kilometers away adding travel costs and loss of their time - sucks for the Khmers going through this -
If asked by a friend coming here, I was recently, where could I stay next month my, and others, answer was we don't know as something available today could be sold tomorrow and is likely to. the Cambodian Resort(next to the previously gutted Aqua place) is being gutted, the beach area to the right of the pier at Serendipity is under the eyes of the Chinese they have already bought one resort and others are holding out for a little more money... one with only 4 rooms was offered $65K and refused......
After reading the OP's previous thread about his issues with his former landlord (and what they had to say in response), I'd be inclined to say he's nothing but trouble. If there are any takers, let's hope we will read how things will go in due course!
I must be blind because when I see all the construction workers they are predominantly Cambodian, with a few Chinese thrown in wearing shiny hard hats, and they are also quite distinct in their dress. That's in Otres and Sihanoukville.
Read in the September Bayon Pearnik that the Chinese were bringing over prisoners and he then says "but unless we see some harder facts, this will remain just a rumour".
I have now been told by three different, unconnected, expats over the last few months this is a fact!
Read in the September Bayon Pearnik that the Chinese were bringing over prisoners and he then says "but unless we see some harder facts, this will remain just a rumour".
I have now been told by three different, unconnected, expats over the last few months this is a fact!
pew, pew, pew, pew!
YaTingPom wrote:I must be blind because when I see all the construction workers they are predominantly Cambodian, with a few Chinese thrown in wearing shiny hard hats, and they are also quite distinct in their dress. That's in Otres and Sihanoukville.
Read in the September Bayon Pearnik that the Chinese were bringing over prisoners and he then says "but unless we see some harder facts, this will remain just a rumour".
I have now been told by three different, unconnected, expats over the last few months this is a fact!
there are a fair few Chinese workers here if you catch shift changes/breaks at the places being built between Sokha and Independence they are easy to spot, they carry refillable water/tea bottles and are not talking Khmer.... and they give old fat white blokes on pushbikes funny looks .. the Khmers don't even notice .. another way to tell is the building go up very very quickly !
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