Tips for foreign students studying in Beijing: Finding a private flat
Foreign students coming to Beijing to study
or work and who don't have the possibility to get student residences might find
it difficult to arrange a private flat before they get to China.
Here are few
tips from my personal experience that will help you in this process. Hope you
you’ll find it useful
1st Step: Find a temporary
residence
Most of the time you will have to already
be in Beijing to find the flat since you need to do the viewings. The best and
cheapest way to do so is to take a one week booking in a hostel who provide
dorms at a low price so you have time to do your flat hunting. The Beijing
Sunrise Hostel is a good option with a nice English speaking staff, safe
lockers, a good location and air conditioning: http://www.hostelsunrise.com
They will let you rent a bed in a 10 people
dorm for about 300 RMB per week. Sometimes in order to get your visa, you might
be asked to get a one month booking, in this case you can do so and cancel when
you have found something else. The hostel will refund you as long as you give a
3 day notice
2nd Step: Find a flat in Beijing
The best way to find accommodation as a
foreigner is to go on the Housing ads part of the Beijinger.com: https://www.thebeijinger.com/classifieds/housing
You will find here many advertisement for
private flat, often someone looking for a flatmate. The best way to communicate
with the landlords is to get the application WeChat, widely used here, so you
can directly contact them. There are a lot of offers, especially during summer,
so it is usually quick to find something and most of the time one week will be
enough
3rd Other information
The landlord will typically ask you to pay
him two months in advance and a one month deposit. Don’t hesitate to ask to
spend few nights in the flat before signing the contract and paying him in
order to check that everything works correctly and ask him to fix whatever is
not functional. Also agree on advance on what is included in the price you pay
such as Wi-Fi, electricity, water bills or and agent fees
It is known that it is very hard to find flat in Beijing as foreigners, hopefully through this article you could get some useful information if you want to study in China.
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