Basically, I'd like to get somewhere as cheap as possible (no point in spending money needlessly...) but really really don't want to end up somewhere gross. I'm fine with noise (I live in university halls...) but hate the idea of anywhere dirty, and have heard bad bad things about fire safety/landlords just walking into your room etc. By guesthouse do you mean more like a private room in a youth-hostel-ey style place? As that sounds fine, or do you mean along the lines of the places in Mirador Mansions or Chungking Mansions, because they sound revolting? Like I said, I'm aiming for as cheap as possible, HKD13,000 is about the maximum monthly rent I could stretch to, so Ice House just fits in. Is Atria good? And also, to what extent is it acceptable to negotiate down the rent? Or is it better to just pay what's quoted? Thank you all so much for your help so far!!!