go through website or just land and look around?
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go through website or just land and look around?
Hi im moving to cambodia and there seems to be some great deals on sites like IPS .com and real estate.com but i was wondering could i find a better deal on the ground and actually looking around for myself? And if the website is a better deal can you guys tell me of a better site than the two mentioned above>?
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have u been before?
my $.05 worth
wait till you arrive, stay in a gh for a few weeks before signing any contract
my $.05 worth
wait till you arrive, stay in a gh for a few weeks before signing any contract
"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer." HST
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yes ive been to cambodia before and fell in love. But ive been seeing some good deals on the web; im just wondering if the deals are better on the ground. Im looking to spend maybe 300$ a month.
If you think those websites are advertising good deals then you're bound to get ripped off!
Look for Vlads guide to apartment hunting.... can someone post the link for him please?
Look for Vlads guide to apartment hunting.... can someone post the link for him please?
I'm not a negative person, I encourage people all the time...it's usually to f**k off! But, whatever.
Why does my post keep getting deleted and how is it any different from the above
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http://www.khmer440.com/chat_forum/view ... an#p559162PSD_Kiwi wrote:If you think those websites are advertising good deals then you're bound to get ripped off!
Look for Vlads guide to apartment hunting.... can someone post the link for him please?
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I feel your pain...ricecakes wrote:Why does my post keep getting deleted and how is it any different from the above
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Land and look around.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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I've had a post deleted in another real estate topic which I'm puzzled about. Mine was about mainly about the quality and repetitive nature of images a will-remain-nameless agency was using on its site and how it didn't create a favourable impression to me. Are property agencies in some way immune to anything other than praise?Don-Pierre de Plume wrote:I feel your pain...ricecakes wrote:Why does my post keep getting deleted and how is it any different from the above
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It appears so.
However, on another media I made several comments about property advertising which the advertiser appreciated.
All feedback is good, even if it's seen as negative.
Photos should be informative (many are not) and provide a clear and honest 'picture' so as not to waste everybody's time.
However, on another media I made several comments about property advertising which the advertiser appreciated.
All feedback is good, even if it's seen as negative.
Photos should be informative (many are not) and provide a clear and honest 'picture' so as not to waste everybody's time.
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That's the way I see it. If you are using four images per property and three are almost identical and all are blurred not only is it not informative, it looks really shoddy. As I indicated in my evaporated post, I wouldn't waste my time with an agency which, for example, advertises a 4 bed villa in SR for north of $1k on its site but does so with four images. Three are of the front elevation, with the fourth a cropped image of one of the bedrooms.Don-Pierre de Plume wrote:It appears so.
However, on another media I made several comments about property advertising which the advertiser appreciated.
All feedback is good, even if it's seen as negative.
Photos should be informative (many are not) and provide a clear and honest 'picture' so as not to waste everybody's time.
If I was the owner of such a business I'd like to think I wouldn't have ever allowed that kind of standard to become the norm but if my eye was off the ball, I'd certainly want someone to tell me so I could address it. Assuming, of course, it wasn't my low standards that were being adhered to in the first place.
On a tangential note, what is the score with agencies and how they make their money? I used to know someone in SR who was doing it but haven't seen him in a long time and I can't remember what he told me. I seem to recall he said he got x number of months rent as a fee from the lessor but I may be imagining that. Whatever he told me was about three years ago, at around 03:00 after so whatever he said is now lost in the chaos of alcohol befuddlement, hangover haze and the eroding power of time on what remained of the memory.
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Agents get commission from the landlords... mainly because if someone thinks they are getting ripped off at $300 they ain't gonna pay shit for someone to drive them around all day showing them properties.bipolar bear wrote:That's the way I see it. If you are using four images per property and three are almost identical and all are blurred not only is it not informative, it looks really shoddy. As I indicated in my evaporated post, I wouldn't waste my time with an agency which, for example, advertises a 4 bed villa in SR for north of $1k on its site but does so with four images. Three are of the front elevation, with the fourth a cropped image of one of the bedrooms.Don-Pierre de Plume wrote:It appears so.
However, on another media I made several comments about property advertising which the advertiser appreciated.
All feedback is good, even if it's seen as negative.
Photos should be informative (many are not) and provide a clear and honest 'picture' so as not to waste everybody's time.
If I was the owner of such a business I'd like to think I wouldn't have ever allowed that kind of standard to become the norm but if my eye was off the ball, I'd certainly want someone to tell me so I could address it. Assuming, of course, it wasn't my low standards that were being adhered to in the first place.
On a tangential note, what is the score with agencies and how they make their money? I used to know someone in SR who was doing it but haven't seen him in a long time and I can't remember what he told me. I seem to recall he said he got x number of months rent as a fee from the lessor but I may be imagining that. Whatever he told me was about three years ago, at around 03:00 after so whatever he said is now lost in the chaos of alcohol befuddlement, hangover haze and the eroding power of time on what remained of the memory.
Commissions tend to be 1 month of rental fee, but some landlords will squeeze them for half... those are the ones that are typically running at less than 50% occupancy...
Remember if you decide to go cheap and use a Tuk Tuk driver to negotiate your deal you deserve everything you get when the landlord negates on the contract and you lose your deposits... or you find out the place you are living in wasn't for rent at all.
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Right. Like when the owner comes back from his holiday... Surely that wouldn't happen in Cambodia?Chuck Wow wrote: ...
Remember if you decide to go cheap and use a Tuk Tuk driver to negotiate your deal you deserve everything you get when the landlord negates on the contract and you lose your deposits... or you find out the place you are living in wasn't for rent at all.
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