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by Savittre » Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:39 pm
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.[/quote]
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.
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...[/quote]
Hmm... From what I’ve heard and read, it seems the Chinese are moving into Sihanoukville, buying property and profiting from it.
The building I had the $200/month was sold to Chinese people, that’s why I had to go, AKA, got kicked out.