Reviews: Looking for a good site to rent apartments in Singapore?

When we are overseas studying, the first thing that we need to settle after being accepted in the university is to find lodgings in the new country.

Since 2004, I had moved to 8 different apartments to cut down costs of living in Shanghai. It was cumbersome, time consuming and a waste of money to give middle man fees these few years. Comparing the price of living in a school dormitory, I saved like 10k rmb annually.

Fudan International Dormitory costs of living is:

1. double bed room - shared: 1800 rmb monthly

2. Single bed room - 2700 rmb monthly

both comes along with bathroom attached to rooms rented.

However, if I stay outside the school, I can look at a price of 800-1500 rmb for a room, saving lots of money. It was said that in 2001, the prices are cheaper. The prices raise dramatically due to too many rich students who think paying more is okay. New price of rental can go as steep as 1600rmb per month now.

So when I can across the site Advertlets promoting a german student in Singapore who is trying to create a portal in which people can find lodings with ease, I decided to help him do some publicity for free here in this blog. Sebastian is German, an ex-NUS student, and at some point, was very frustrated why he could not find accomodation easily in Singapore. That’s why he created RoomsDB.net!

RoomsDB.net is a non-commercial portal helping people to find housing for rental or for landlords to try to publicise empty rooms. It aims to reach out globally as a portal for Singapore, Taiwan & Hong Kong.

This is the excerpt from the website:

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roomsDB.net is a noncommercial and not-for-profit project which aims to provide Singaporeans and all others who want to find or rent out a room in Singapore a simple and easy to use tool - completely free of charge!

.....Unlike other conventional room rental websites, we do not require you to register with us when you use roomsDB.net.

.....It's even the same when you post an ad, you just have to provide a valid email address, that's all! It's that simple.

.....After posting your ad to roomsDB.net a confirmation email will be sent to your email address containing a link that you have to click to "activate" your listing on this website.

.....roomsDB.net encourages landlords and tenants to deal with each other directly, that is why we keep this website simple and functional.
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