House Hunting

I am hunting for a house in the Udon Thani area. I work near the Big C area. I am looking for a nice 2-3 bedroom house at around 6000 baht maximum...any help would be appreciated

if you PM me, I can give you the local lady's # - last time I talk with her (few days ago) she had two places in my area, walkable to Big C (steveudon area)

she speaks some english.

At last count there were several available in First Homes, just stop by the office they can guide you

How long would you be willing to sign a lease for.

canuck-viking wrote:I am hunting for a house in the Udon Thani area. I work near the Big C area. I am looking for a nice 2-3 bedroom house at around 6000 baht maximum...any help would be appreciated

Go to Romyen3....about 4000 for a 3 bed is the going rate

Have I mis-read this thread, or are we missing a "0" out somewhere?

If not, I'll have 10 please.

Gary

No you didn't miss a 0, but the trick is finding one that has a phone that the owner will leave for your use. You also have to make sure you have a very adequate water tank adn pump system. Aircon would be nice as you start adding these things the price will go up, but not that much you are probably looking at 6k or more a month, long term lease. Truth is unless you want a permaneant place to stay in Udon and there are some advantages to that. Or you want something for your wifes futuer, thee is absolutley no reaon to buy here, retns are very low, if you are careful in your research.

The aircon and water system ins't all that expensive and you can do that easily. But the phone now thats a different ball game altogether. The waiting list the last I heard can be years.

There are otjher alternarives to getting net connections but they can be expensive.

saimfevernow wrote:

There are otjher alternarives to getting net connections but they can be expensive.

Try GPRS, now available from branches of Telewiz on offer at 5,900bht to purchase and a range of reasonable monthly programmes without long term commitment I am on the 350bht offer, which gives me 150hrs per month. Remember this is for both ISP and call costs.

Valentine,

I was looking at the same system and have heard bad reports about it. What is your opinion??

The area I will be living is in a fringe mobile zone around 10 kms out of town. You can always get a signal, maybe 1/2 stegnth, but the signal seems to switch cells quite often. Sometimes the airport, sometimes other cells.

And did you purchase the GPRS and the package at Telewiz opposite the fairground in the centre of town??

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Ross

rossdunstan wrote:Valentine,

I was looking at the same system and have heard bad reports about it. What is your opinion??

The area I will be living is in a fringe mobile zone around 10 kms out of town. You can always get a signal, maybe 1/2 stegnth, but the signal seems to switch cells quite often. Sometimes the airport, sometimes other cells.

And did you purchase the GPRS and the package at Telewiz opposite the fairground in the centre of town??

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Ross

Hi Ross, yes thats apparently the head branch and always keeps a stock.
I live 40kms out from town and before had a TOT land line which disconnected with monotonous reguarlity which of course meant another local call charge, plus an annoying loss of work. My local calls were average 800bht a month, now not even 50bht.Plus of course an ISP charge
about 500bht.With GPRS only 350bht combined. So on cost, a big improvement. Now on efficiency. Daytime , up until about 6pm I rarely disconnect. In the evenings, occassionally and it is obviously slower. Even with that it is still a major improvement on TOT. So overall the system, although not perfect, has been a big improvement for me.Val

Thank you.

I was hesitant to invest the 6000 odd baht without at least hearing someones opinion on it.

Where I am the problem is not getting a number the problem is that there is only 1 line coming to the village and thats to a public phone box.

I'm used to ADSL here in Australia so I'm being spoil but it would be nice to check emails and such from home and maybe do any longer stuff in at one of the internet cafes. Maybe try and find where Pops is and say hello.

Again, thanks.

Ross

rossdunstan wrote:Valentine,

I was looking at the same system and have heard bad reports about it. What is your opinion??

The area I will be living is in a fringe mobile zone around 10 kms out of town. You can always get a signal, maybe 1/2 stegnth, but the signal seems to switch cells quite often. Sometimes the airport, sometimes other cells.

And did you purchase the GPRS and the package at Telewiz opposite the fairground in the centre of town??

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Ross

Hi Ross, you may find the following thread useful http://www.udonmap.com/udonthaniforum/v ... .php?t=363

To all concerned. Telewiz is out of the 5900 modems. I am on the call list but they should have some next week. Please don't get excited not a shortange just out.

banpaeng wrote:To all concerned. Telewiz is out of the 5900 modems. I am on the call list but they should have some next week. Please don't get excited not a shortange just out.

Strange I was in the main showroom, near the fair ground at 5pm yesterday and there was 4 sitting in the showcase. Think they may have forgotten to ring you.

Lee,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Ross