Hello. It's us Ploy and Richard.
This time, we will share our experience of finding and renting an apartment in UK.
Tips to live in UK.
The first step is visiting Rightmove.co.uk to search for rooms available.
Search area or city that you are looking for a room, for me it's Bristol.
It will then ask you how many bedrooms do you want, how much you are willing to pay per month.
The lists of available apartments. Personally I would prefer seeing the lists in map version
so that I can see where those apartments are located.
Click on those red spots to see available rooms. It will show prices and numbers of bedrooms.
I will choose the most convenient location for me first such as is it on the main road? do I have to long walk through alley?
Then I see pictures of each available apartments. For example, I'm interested in this one. I will see pictures of it
whether I like the colour of the room or not, how about common area of the building?
Then I will see its floorplan to see where the bathroom, kitchen and bedroom are located.
and then read more info about the room.
Some are all bills included. Some provide bike storage.
Finally, before making a decision, I will contact agency to visit the property.
Oh. Some rooms have virtual tour available for you
like we can see 360degree of the room. We can drag left, right and up, down the video to see all aspect of the room.
2nd step is visiting the property
where we contact the agency to take us to the room we're interested in.
Now we're at the building that we're interested in and we're waiting a staff to take us to the room.
and it is that room over there.
I expect to see the perfect room as we both want to rent this room so much.
and this is vibe around the building.
It's next to river. lovely vibe.
Now it's about noon. We're waiting for the agency which will meet us at 12.30PM.
We'd waited for awhile but no one showed up.
So we call the agency but they said they tried to contact us but there might be something wrong with the call.
The staff inform us that the landlord is not convenient to provide the room for now. We have to postpone the viewing.
Thus, we don't get this room because we found another room before viewing the 1st room.
Let's move on to our 2nd choice which I think the location is quite good.
Under the building, there is Sainsbury which is a supermarket and in front of the building, there is a bus stop.
and there are lots of restaurants in this area.
We're waiting the landlord to take us to the room.
Yes, not sure how's it like. Let see.
Yeah. We just finish visiting the property. What's your thought Richard?
Actually it's ok like I expected but I think the building is a bit old.
and we can't move any furniture in the room.
There are 2 sofas in the room which is more than what we want and we can't move them. so they make the room look a bit small.
True. That's fine. We still have another property to view tomorrow.
Hopefully, tmr room will be nice so we can make a decision and finally have a property to stay.
Oh one more thing, the balcony of that room is not that beautiful. It's quite but it's not nice for us to sit.
This room is like 3 out of 5 like we can stay here but yeah.
Now we're waiting for a staff to take us to the 4th-choice property.
will update you guys soon.
After we saw the room, we both agree to stay here.
We especially like the balcony where we can sip coffee and see nice view. Also the size of the room is okay for us.
So we talk with the staff about the process before renting
which I will explain to you guys now.
Before we can rent the property, there are a few steps to go through.
1. pay deposit
For my case, I have to pay the deposit equal 1-month rent.
After that, the agency will send you an online form to fill in
to check whether you are able to pay the rent every month or not.
Both Richard and I have to fill in the form.
After 2-3days, we get the result that we can rent this property
so we then have to sign the contract.
Maybe because of the Covid19 situation, I have online contract to sign instead.
The agency will send the contract online for us to sign. After all of these steps, we can arrange the date to pick up room keys and stay there.
That's our experience of renting an apartment in the UK.
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Bye for now. (TH) Sa-Wad-Dee kaa