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Originally Posted by schreech26
Also, a lot of poker players just don't want to deal with the hassle of living out of a hotel for a week as they do some serious apartment hunting/negotiating. Most would rather just get a place ASAP even if there's the chance that they pay a small markup. In fact, this may be even more profitable because of the hours they lose when compared to the hours lost that could have been spent grinding.
agree and disagree.
I surely understand that people want to get place hasslefree. I understand that for the first trip they make to thailand. After that, when you know how things work and what you want, i dont understand it. I rented an overpriced villa for 2 weeks for our first trip since i wanted something to be ready when we came here but the villa was far from perfect for grinding, though we didnt plan to grind during that time.
now that i have stayed over a year here (one year and two days actually !) i am willing to spend a lot of time to find a place that has everything for me and i did find one and spend about 3 weeks negotiating and making sure it had everything that i needed and still there has been some problems with the house.
my point is that even when something looks very good from the outside you cannot just rush into signing a lease before you check out some things and usually you just cant know enough in just a few days.
also i am talking about signing leases longer than 6 months, not just some holiday apartments most of you come here to stay at. I plan on staying here atleast several years more but i can also understand people who just want their place to be ready fast because they are only staying for couple of months.
also, making sure everything is ok beforehand might save you more money than the money you save grinding the extra few days