by redcup » Fri May 25, 2012 10:30 am
I am finding it very difficult to find a place. Here are the problems:
I've been walking around in the neighborhoods where I want to live, but there are very few signs that say "apartment available" or "room available" and when I do find one, I usually can't get in to see it because nobody's home. When I send a text to the phone number on the sign, nobody replies. They probably don't understand English.
I did get in to see one place that was half decent but again, the landlords speak no English so I can't negotiate a deal with them nor ask them questions.
Andy suggested to get a moto or tuk tuk to do the looking, but they can't speak english either! How am I supposed to tell them about the very specific things that I want and don't want in an apartment?
In short, it seems very difficult to find an apartment without having an english-speaking Khmer person help you. If you don't have a close Khmer friend, you're out of luck.
I've contacted one of the agents someone recommended in another thread but she has not been responsive at all. Maybe agents are not interested in finding a $150 apartment, only the more expensive ones.
The few apartments I've been able to see have mostly had problems like dangerous stairways that have no headroom for anyone over 5 feet tall and tiny steps that barang-sized feet don't fit on, no WiFi and various other problems.
There's one good building that has everything I want but no vacancies there.
I haven't given up though.
I am finding it very difficult to find a place. Here are the problems:
I've been walking around in the neighborhoods where I want to live, but there are very few signs that say "apartment available" or "room available" and when I do find one, I usually can't get in to see it because nobody's home. When I send a text to the phone number on the sign, nobody replies. They probably don't understand English.
I did get in to see one place that was half decent but again, the landlords speak no English so I can't negotiate a deal with them nor ask them questions.
Andy suggested to get a moto or tuk tuk to do the looking, but they can't speak english either! How am I supposed to tell them about the very specific things that I want and don't want in an apartment?
In short, it seems very difficult to find an apartment without having an english-speaking Khmer person help you. If you don't have a close Khmer friend, you're out of luck.
I've contacted one of the agents someone recommended in another thread but she has not been responsive at all. Maybe agents are not interested in finding a $150 apartment, only the more expensive ones.
The few apartments I've been able to see have mostly had problems like dangerous stairways that have no headroom for anyone over 5 feet tall and tiny steps that barang-sized feet don't fit on, no WiFi and various other problems.
There's one good building that has everything I want but no vacancies there.
I haven't given up though.