I found this the same way I find most of my other ones. I rent a hotel for a week, and then just spend that week doing normal stuff, but telling virtually evert single person I meet that I’m looking for a decent apartment. I’ll tell the people checking me out at the registers, the secretary at the dive shop, the managers at bars, masseuses, etc. without fail, somebody eventually knows somebody. Sometimes if I’m having trouble I’ll offer a finder’s fee (usually around 20 bucks in SE Asia). At that point the problem is visiting each location to see if it’s worth renting, not whether or not I’m going to find a rental, lol.
This one is in a local neighborhood, the owners live downstairs, and the upstairs floor that mine is on has 3 apartments they rent out (two single bedroom units and one two bedroom unit.
The Internet is surprisingly good. Before the pandemic it was pretty hit or miss, but they did some infrastructure changes and it got much better when I returned for the first time late in 2021. I generally just use the hotspot with mobile data, but my next-door neighbor has a fiancé who works from home managing a Swedish call center and has postpaid cable internet… and several back up batteries for her system. The only real downside is that power outages/brownours happen fairly frequently. Usually if it’s storming, so it probably once a week on average? Sometimes for an hour, sometimes for a day. I guess they didn’t get around upgrading the electricity grid, just smell signal, lol.
I found this the same way I find most of my other ones. I rent a hotel for a week, and then just spend that week doing normal stuff, but telling virtually evert single person I meet that I’m looking for a decent apartment. I’ll tell the people checking me out at the registers, the secretary at the dive shop, the managers at bars, masseuses, etc. without fail, somebody eventually knows somebody. Sometimes if I’m having trouble I’ll offer a finder’s fee (usually around 20 bucks in SE Asia). At that point the problem is visiting each location to see if it’s worth renting, not whether or not I’m going to find a rental, lol.
This one is in a local neighborhood, the owners live downstairs, and the upstairs floor that mine is on has 3 apartments they rent out (two single bedroom units and one two bedroom unit.
The Internet is surprisingly good. Before the pandemic it was pretty hit or miss, but they did some infrastructure changes and it got much better when I returned for the first time late in 2021. I generally just use the hotspot with mobile data, but my next-door neighbor has a fiancé who works from home managing a Swedish call center and has postpaid cable internet… and several back up batteries for her system. The only real downside is that power outages/brownours happen fairly frequently. Usually if it’s storming, so it probably once a week on average? Sometimes for an hour, sometimes for a day. I guess they didn’t get around upgrading the electricity grid, just smell signal, lol.