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[Rock]

What would you say if I, or you, had a three story house, with five bedrooms, two huge family rooms, a kitchen, backyard, utility room and a front veranda, and it all cost about US $250.00 a month?

Well, I do, and I don't know what to do with all the room(s.)

I live in Taiwan though, in a place called Miao-Li, Hakka central(The Hakka are some of the earliest Chinese settlers to Taiwan.)

But what would you do with all this space? I've been so used to those offistel's, or one-rooms. I suppose I could rent out the rooms but like to live alone. It's really something having your own house here, so much so I don't know what to do.

But honestly, what would you do if you had a house here?

[Juregen]

You could open some kind of hostel for foreigners

Especially with three floors

[The_Conservative]

[VanIslander]

open a bed & breakfast

you totally control the schedule, doing it as often as you want, telling people you're "booked" when you dont want to

[Juregen]

[hubba bubba]

Better question is, how do I get a house like that for 250 a month?

Feel free to PM me.

[mistermasan]

you rent or own? yeah, parts of taiwan are overbuilt. yangmei had so many empty places they could be had for a song. but what would tourist do there?

[Rock]

If I knew how to cook I'd open up a bed and breakfast. The hostel option is kinda lacking, since there aren't many tourist attractions for staying here other than the fact Taichung is about an hour away. But I've heard Taichung beats Taipei.

Maybe I'll just rent it out or make it a kind of refuge for those in need. God knows I've bordered on homelessness before. But I have to save some bucks, get some more furniture.

Nonetheless, it's really astonishing having a house here. The only problem is, job security isn't as strong here as it is in Korea. If it was, I'd be making this house a possible permanent residence.

[Faunaki]

Maybe you should try to appeal to the Taiwanese public by trying to make your house special in some way. Taiwanese love new and different things. You could turn the whole thing into a craft house, where you decorate your house in say Canadian/Australian/... style but the thing is everything is for sale. Get pictures, crafts, furniture from your home country and sell it for $$$$. Serve tea in fancy little tea cups and have a cafe that sells cake and coffee. Advertise it on the internet as a place to speak English and find interesting things to buy.

[mole]

[Tiger Beer]

It sounds like you just stumbled upon having a house. How did this happen?

[Rock]