Before I take you to the apartment, I thought I'd take you back a step to where it started -- the real estate agent. Since we're new to this city, we simply walked around the city center looking for an agent.This is what we found.
Here's my dear husband waiting at the agent's stall while the agent makes some calls for us. (Yes, there are nicer offices in some places in China. But in our new home, this is pretty standard.)
The available apartments and storefronts are listed on boards like this. We tell the agent what we would like, and she charges 10 RMB (about $1.50) to show us two apartments. We have to pay for the taxi if we take one. The agent receives anywhere from 3% of the yearly rent to one month's rent. This is all negotiated. We visited three different agents. The third one was the charm.
And here's Sprite.
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• July 8, 2008 - Wow!
Can't wait to see the pic's of the new home