Hello Everyone!
My husband and I will be moving to HK in a few months for a couple of years due to his career and we wanna be prepared for this big move. We are thinking of renting a furnished apartment, preferably in the Shatin area or a bit further south around Kowloon Tong (as long as the place is near an MTR station, we're good).
We would like to get a 2 bedroom apartment in a newer building, not too outdated furniture, and most importantly - no cockroaches or any other bugs. The budget we have in mind is not more than $20-25k per month. Is that realistic?
We are not familiar with renting apartments in HK, but we've been to HK for holidays many times (my husband is HK Chinese, so, communication with the landlords won't be a problem). I did a lot of google searches and it doesn't seem that there are many serviced apartments in the area we're looking at... looks like most serviced apartments are near TST or on HK Island. We wouldn't mind living further south if the place is only 5-10 mins walking distance from the MTR, but we're concerned about the bad air pollution the further south we go (near TST and Hong Hum...).
We know that there's the Horizon Suite Hotel in Ma On Shan, but that's a bit too far north and east for our liking, but we have not completed taken this building off our list. Does anybody live there and can tell us what it's like and how the Management of that building is? I read all these negative stories in this forum about its sister buildings in Hong Hum and I'm not sure if the Horizon properties are any good...?
Thanks so much in advance for reading my long thread and for your replies.