Apartment Hunting (first week of August)

Cheekemonkey wrote:

Hi all!

I'm gearing up to apartment hunt the first week of August before I start work and my window for finding a place to live, getting settled in with a phone #, and buying a bike is only a week. Any suggestions/recommendations on how to efficiently see/view apartments that may have my preferred list of attributes? Ie: quite/safe(r) neighborhood, away from flash flooding areas, walking distance to a market, within 20 minute bike ride to work, gas stove, east or west facing balcony, etc..... 

Are there agencies or brokers that handle that or do I need to set up appointments with individual renters via contact info listed (on ads posted on housing forums like expat.com)?

Again, thank you all for the great info! I am packing up in the next three weeks as I will be traveling before I land in Cambodia Aug.1 hence, the mass of questions far in advance!

AJ

I have sent you a pm.

Cheers

Joe
Cambodia expert
Expat.com team

Hi Joe. I will also soon be in the hunt for an apartment and do not have a clue where to start looking. Please PM me also

Hi Joe,

Me too please, I will arrived in a couple of months and would like a bit of a heads up as well.
thanks
Kaye

Joe i’m in the exact same situation as you now. please email me at *** and tell me what you did and what the best places to live are!! Also how is it not being a native speaker there? is it hard to find work?

There are quite a few Facebook pages and groups dedicated to apartment rental, with new posts every day. I don't mean to sound smart but surely Google would be the first thing to check when looking for absolutely anything these days?

Here is a good one, as an example, and there are more like this.
facebook.com/groups/1386803678011166?group_view_referrer=profile_browser