can get pretty cheap apartments but i stopped looking around so far cuz they’re usually old shitty buildings with bad design. would need to spend a lot extra to get pool, gym, etc. gonna look again when i go north to shanghai and beijing. you can use wellcee to look around for apartments
basic foods and stuff is cheap also
okay, that's interesting to know. I am renting right now, in indo. a 1 bed living room, for 480 a month (that includes electricity).
apartment has pool and gym
the scam indo has is, they will offer an apartment for say 300 a month, BUT then they tell you "but the maintanance fee is 100 a month"
so one realestate agent i got pissed at and said "that's just fucking scammy" and he said no, that is how it's done in indo
and i said, look. i do not OWN the apartment, so why am i paying maintenance? (maintainence is for the door men,security, pool fees and shit)
so i said, what if i pay my rent, but dont' pay maintenance. What would happen? oh.....the owner of the apartment would get the heat. WELL THEN..>SHOULD I BE PAYING the maintenance, or the fucking owner of the apartment.
it's just a way to make the apartment look cheaper, so they can get you into negotiation. But then they lay the "maintenance fee on you" instead of being honest and just putting the maintenance fee in with the rent.
the realestate agent could not rebuttle that logical argument. Because the fucker KNEW i was right.
i look at it like renting a car. And the car rental company says "the car is 50 a day, but you must also pay 15 dollars a day for insurance"
i shouldn't have to pay for insurance, that's YOUR car. Your insurance.
if you want to cover the insurance, you scammy fuck, add it to the cost of the car rental, so why not say the car is 65 a day, and then i can decide if that is too much or not.