Initially we drove around looking at houses, most of which were located in the very nice and in Khon Kaen, prestigious, neighborhood of Piman Chol 2. As you can see, the houses have been built in the last year and are in a Western style neighborhood. Driving around was a chore in itself, because all signs are in Thai. The procedure would be to drive around until we saw a sign, which could have meant any number of things, take a picture and leave. After a day of driving around, I would have a Thai person translate the signs, and if they turned out to be for rent, we would then call to set up an appointment to view them. Of the five houses we went and looked at, not one appointment was on time, very much Thai protocol. All of the houses were beautiful, but one of two requirements prevented us from renting, A. One year lease or B. Not fully furnished. This would mean we had to lock in for a year, of which I did not want to do in the event we leave Khon Kaen to explore elsewhere, or had to buy furniture of which we had just purged our lives of before leaving the States. It has been hard enough lugging around five large suitcases so buying more junk was not an option. On the other hand the condominiums, or as I would like to call them glorified hotel rooms, we had viewed prior were old, stinky, small, or very jail-cell like.
driving to the appointment to view this beauty, we soon realized, google maps are in Thai, and the website for Destiny is in Thai. This meant the quick five minute drive, turned into an hour drive and a spontaneous viewing of CP Land condo while we were here asking for directions. We did make it to see the Destiny, which lived up to its reputation, but was more expensive than CP Land, and further outside of the city.
Fast forward to next morning: we show up at 9 a.m. as agreed to find out the owner is not here, but Bong (again the security guard) took it upon himself to set up with another owner to show his condo. Wouldn’t you know it, this one had brand new furniture, never been lived in, and was a corner unit. Score.
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[…] a call not knowing whether the house was for sale or for rent (much like the process when we were house-hunting in Khon Kaen). This process became monotonous and most of the time disappointing. We ended up meeting our […]
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Hi! My name is Nadia. My house is available for rent. If you know anyone who are looking for a house for rent in Khon Kaen, please let me know. Thank you in advance!
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Nadia, this is a beautiful house! I wish we would have known when we were in KK. However, we are now in Chiang Mai. I will leave this comment up for others to hopefully see as an option in KK. You may also want to try listing on Baht Sold and DD Property. Those were the two websites that I constantly looked at when we were house hunting.
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Hi nadia I am looking for a condo/ house /apartment to rent in khon kaen for 1or 2 months this year starting from 24/11/16 near the centre of town if you have anything available please email me many thanks Barry
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