Incredibly shallow lmao.

GOOD BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS THAT ALL THE BEST AND MOST HONEST AGENTS WRITE WITH THEIR CAPS LOCK PERMANENTLY ON

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Being an American, it really ticks me when it comes to false advertising cause it wastes my time.

lol I wonder what the hell made you write that line.

But yes, let's root out them bad apples!

I think Mr.American should have written like this "Otherwise we will attack your country to teach you to run democracy."

hah . pick the best you see , and get in quick

NO CAPS LOCKED ON . Just money , money , money

The Chinese sites are much more reliable. Use soufang.com, with the help of a Chinese friend if you need language assistance. Don't let them know you are a laowai before they quote the price over the phone though if they haven't listed it online. Don't know why anyone would use TBJ to look for houses. Soufang is much better and much easier to use, and you won't get all the dodgy "agents" that use the sight because they think they can make a quick buck from laowai. They have a big database of houses and good search parameters. You can look for houses in a certain area, of a certain type, within a certain price range.

Congrats on making the most blatantly false statement in the history of "The Beijinger".

I looked at the soufang.com site, but it looks like it is all pretty low end stuff. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.

Hi,

I will not wade into the McDonald issue here. To everyone their own.

As I am currently also "hunting house" (BTW, what caliber hunting rifle do you think is good for hunting that kind of game? I was thinking of a 50) I have found two in three people I dealt with quite straightforward and honest.

The other had (of course) the "oh this apartment has just been rented out, but we have others available" and what was available was non too great for the money.

To be honest, two good ones out of three estate agents (or used car salesmen for that) is more than I would expect in germany, the UK or the US...

As a personal recommendation (not sure if she can help with Wangjing though, you can ask), Lihui was very helpful and pretty much got me exactly what I wanted.

She posts Adds under the handle lhcure. All the apartments she has currently posted where available last week (when I visited them) and the photos are real too.

L.V.X. Thor

Well, ads on The Beijinger are not so reliable. Prices are often too high considering the quality/price ratio.

Since it's difficult to find apartments directly from the owner, at least try to rely on big agencies, who actually have a reputation, for example "Wo Ai Wo Jia". The problem is that, apart from the luxury apartments (from 4000RMB up) they ask a commission, which is pretty high, usually 2 months rent.

Anyway, a good way to find an apartment is going in the area you are interested in and see if on the windows there are some ads with numbers....there is likely to be a owner and not an agency...

Yeah, I fiddled. But could only come up with a few in the CBD area over 5000rmb, but I agree for the lower end it's quite useful.

As for agents and commissions, we end up paying one way or another. If the owner pays the fee, they will just end up increasing the rent to compensate.

I have a good agent I've used for 3 years, speaks good english, honest and will help you with any problems for the length of your contract. If anyone is looking pm me.

Sorry to hear that. But I think if the agent really wants to ruin his or his company's reputation by doing things like this, we can't really stop them.

For now, I've asked all agents to post real pics of their apartments, personally. Coz it's not one of our rules. Pics are not necessary in classifieds.

But I think there is something that I can help, if you still have that person's username and email add or cellphone number. I can ban this account and send him a warning email, even remove all his other Ads on the site. Hopefully he can learn the lesson from this, but who knows...

what do you say? You can send that user's information to webmaster@thebeijinger.com

Dear Chinaboy
You obviously had a much better time finding an apartment in Bangkok than I did . Yes . Beijing is different . Finding an apartment in a big city isn't.
One of the better ways to find an apartment is through friends . Get them to check out their neighbourhoods . So you don't have to . Quite often they will know someone who knows someone .....

And as a non-American I don't like to put up with that crap either. This websites should kick the cheats out. Do they have a code of conduct?