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chaz47 · Joined: 11 Sep 2003

I've been enduring noisy neighbors and a split-shift for quite some time. Now, finally, my school is going to let me find a new place. It took threatening to quit and a change in schedule but... I digress. Anyway, they'll let me move but *I* need to find the place.

The last time I moved all was good until two university boys squeezed into the 8 pyeong room next door and began to tickle-fight until 3am (mind you I work splits and wake up at 5:30am). My goal for the next place is NO NEIGHBORS. I was thinking one of those situations where you rent the top floor of an actual house. What do you call those?

In lieu of one of those I need to be able to explain to the landlord in no uncertain terms the walls need to be more than one layer of sheetrock. Seriously, I almost went through the wall of my current place pounding on it to get them to shut the f*ck up.

Lastly, I'm considering a 'jeonsae' instead of a 'weolsae' this time. I've saved enough money and the situation with the D-10 makes the idea of having a large chunk of money here a bit more palatable. Plus being able to save monthly rent would be akin to the raise I'm not likely to see anytime soon. So, what do you think a 'jeonsae' contract would cost me? Also, any advice on negotiating?

optik404 · Joined: 24 Jun 2008

Jeonsae starts at about 70K where I live (popular Uni area in Seoul). That's for a tiny 6-8pyung furnished place.

faeriehazel · Joined: 04 Mar 2008

Jeonsae is hard to get nowadays because interest rates are so low. 70-80 mil is probably the lowest you'll get for a small place (at the moment the average jeonsae is 60-65% of the selling price).

Places that take up an entire floor are usually pretty big and therefore not cheap. You're looking either for a 빌라 or a 다세대 주택 maybe (although neither are a guarantee that you won't have neighbors on the same floor). Around HBC or the Kyungridan area, you'd probably have to budget about 1 mil a month for rent, give or take. You might find something smaller for 800-900k a month if you're lucky.\

We moved into a house where our unit is the entire top floor, and it is really nice not having neighbors, but the rent is pretty expensive, and we don't even live anywhere near a subway station.