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dragonpiwo
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 Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:09 am Post subject: Astonishingly high rents in Abu Dhabi |
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The rents in Ad are astonishingly high for tawtheek contract accommodation, which you need if you want to get your wife a visa. Renting a room in a villa is technically illegal before all the 4k a month cheapskates pitch in.
Finding a place and an honest estate agent is a freakin headache.
You see an ad for a studio at 90,000 and they ring telling you it's now 120,000.
The landlords often want the year's rent or a couple of cheques. It is illegal and a criminal offence to bounce a cheque here. If you give someone a cheque and lose your job (very possible if contract-hire), you'll end up in the clink.
The net forums are full of people having problems trying to get their money back when they've terminated a rental agreement. In most cases you llose at least 3 months.
If you want to live in India town in a run down hole, you can get cheaper places.
Never seen a rental market like it. |
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nomad soul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:55 am Post subject: |
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| Why are you looking at Abu D rents? You've been in the UAE for months now; aren't you already in housing? |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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He mentioned in previous rent discussions that he was there on his own staying in provided single housing, but his wife is planning to join him.
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nomad soul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| veiledsentiments wrote: |
| He mentioned in previous rent discussions that he was there on his own staying in provided single housing, but his wife is planning to join him. |
It's unclear if he had expenses associated with his single-guy, oil company accommodations. Anyway, as I recall, the wife didn't want to quit her job in whatever country she's currently in. So if she's visiting short-term, then he should look into hotel apartments --- plenty of them in Abu D. Otherwise, if she's decided to come on a more permanent basis, then she could look for work to help offset the costs to rent a flat or villa. |
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dragonpiwo
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| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 10:30 am Post subject: ha |
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I'll let her know Nomad  .
Got a studio for 80k in the end. |
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spanglish
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 12:51 am Post subject: Re: ha |
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| dragonpiwo wrote: |
I'll let her know Nomad .
Got a studio for 80k in the end. |
A touch above prices in US northeast major cities. Sticker price for me when I came home from my EFL adventures. |
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