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brento1138
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| eamo wrote: |
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Can I set the Dave's record for highest maintenance fee? It's 250,000. Beat that. |
Your place better be pretty nice! |
58 pyeong. 3 bedroom. Living room you could play tennis in. Upstairs loft with large private balcony. Large communal garden which is awesome.
It sure is nice......but I resent then fee. It's too much because the complex is only 5 buildings. |
That sounds super nice. I'd pay the fee for that. I currently live in a place probably the size of just one of your rooms!  |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:33 am Post subject: Re: maintenance fee on apartment if you work for ps |
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| Sorry I've been asking lots of questions but do you have to pay a maintenance fee on your apartment if you work at a public school (hagwon too)? It doesn't say that you do on recruiter websites but have seen it on dave's. It seems like there are more bills than I had thought and saving alot might also be harder than I anticipated. Thanks! |
It would be better for everyone if all recruiters were honest about these kinds of fees and bills up front. Many recruiters tell applicants that their entire paycheck is theirs and that's not true. And don't try to claim that everyone should know this already before moving to Korea. No one knows everything about living in a foreign country until they actually live there. The recruiters who somehow forget to mention these kinds of things are not doing their jobs. |
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definitely maybe
Joined: 16 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| brento1138 wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
| brento1138 wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
Can I set the Dave's record for highest maintenance fee? It's 250,000. Beat that. |
Your place better be pretty nice! |
58 pyeong. 3 bedroom. Living room you could play tennis in. Upstairs loft with large private balcony. Large communal garden which is awesome.
It sure is nice......but I resent then fee. It's too much because the complex is only 5 buildings. |
That sounds super nice. I'd pay the fee for that. I currently live in a place probably the size of just one of your rooms! |
58 pyeong? I hate to say it, but your place is probably smaller than any one of his rooms. Seriously, my place is 35 pyeong and most of my foreign friends think it's a palace compared to their more than modest digs, but it's got nothing on eamo's! The extra 23 pyeong on top of what I've got could be another sizable three bedroom, two bathroom apartment! |
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stevieg4ever
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Location: London, England
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People should really say where they are based before posting sums to make everything more clearer.
I am in Seoul and live in an officetel: its pricey for sure but its a nice apartment! But in the sticks it was cheap as chips, really was.
I've never heard of schools paying for utilities at all. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| definitely maybe wrote: |
| 58 pyeong? I hate to say it, but your place is probably smaller than any one of his rooms. Seriously, my place is 35 pyeong and most of my foreign friends think it's a palace compared to their more than modest digs, but it's got nothing on eamo's! The extra 23 pyeong on top of what I've got could be another sizable three bedroom, two bathroom apartment! |
Am I doing the conversion right? 23 pyong is just 818 square feet. That's closer to a large studio or normal one-bedroom in the U.S. I think my sense of proportion has been warped from making house calls to my students in Beverly Hills. They have 8,000 - 15,000 square feet homes (225-421 pyong for you Koreans) which makes my house look like a homeless man's hovel.
To add to the data pool, I pay 200,000 won for my monthly maintenance fees in Korea. However, I do get 24 hour English-speaking concierge service for that. |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 3:32 am Post subject: |
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| Last year, I worked for a GEPIK school. The apartment was at least twice the size of the one that I have this year, but I will end up doing a little better this year because of the huge maintenance fees that I had to pay last year. I get a better paycheck this year, but housing wasn't part of the deal. So I chose a tiny place with cheaper utilities and maintenance. It's within walking distance of my school, so I save on transportation as well. |
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soulofseoul
Joined: 23 Mar 2010
Location: Seoul
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[quote="eamo"][quote="brento1138"][quote="eamo"]
Can I set the Dave's record for highest maintenance fee? It's 250,000. Beat that.[/quote]
Your place better be pretty nice![/quote]
58 pyeong. 3 bedroom. Living room you could play tennis in. Upstairs loft with large private balcony. Large communal garden which is awesome.
It sure is nice......but I resent then fee. It's too much because the complex is only 5 buildings.[/quote]
No matter how big a person place is in seoul, youre still in a mouse trap with millions of other mice and the cost doesnt equal the value at all |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Last year, mine varied with the cost of utilities and whatever maintenence they were doing on the building and during the winter months, it would hit 300,000 for me and 400,000 for a friend of mine upstairs. The apartments were nice sized studios. |
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