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MrRoomfinder is a free property portal built to bring Tenants, Private Landlords, & Agencies of Bangkok and Thailand together in one place.
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WHY BUILD THIS WEBSITE?
Mr. Roomfinder comes to Thailand
THE SEED FOR THIS WEBSITE WAS FIRST PLANTED OCTOBER 2004.

I vividly remember dragging my reluctant feet around the hot sticky roads and side streets of Bangkok in what seemed a never ending and hopeless search for a new place to live.

Enough was Enough!

Unless you're fortunate enough to have someone run around and do all the home hunting for you, then you will know that independently seeking a new place to live in Greater Bangkok can be nothing short of self inflicted torture!

The day came when I decided that enough was enough and it was time to develop a new system of finding Thailand real estate so as to lesson the frustration and discomfort that the heat, humidity, and choking polution of this concrete jungle so cruely dishes out to the lost pedestrian.

Prior to setting off into Bangkok’s overcrowded metropolis, I was desperate to narrow down my search and create a short list of potential homes, but I just wasn't able to find any helpful websites out there on the Internet. It was at this time that I began to question whether an online property portal which catered specifically for the independent Home Hunter, would prove popular enough to assign to.

Over the weeks that followed, the idea was bounced around the expat community of Bkk and it soon became apparent that there was a definite call for an information service of this kind, so the challenge was on to set-up what has now become Mr. Roomfinder Dot Com.

THE FORMAT FOR THIS SITE

While preparing this project, the idea was that it had to become an interactive website for the home hunters of Thailand. This meant that users would be able to contribute and have their say. There would be an option for members to add their own recommended apartments to the ever growing database. There would also be a discussion forum aimed at helping those in need find the perfect home at the ideal price.

This site could assist in finding room-mates to split the cost of living in more luxurious bangkok condos and houses. There would be articles of interest on housing issues, covering what to look for and what to look-out for. We'd include free classified pages where members could buy & sell, or request products and services. The format was decided and so the project began.

After a number of setbacks, I managed to achieve all of those initial objectives for the site’s opening, which was on Thursday May 12, 2005 at around 16:00 hrs Thai time.

THE VISION

MrRoomfinder.com exists to help tenants share their renting experiences and thus give apartment hunters the information necessary to make a more informed decision.

The aim of this site was, and still is, to build the largest online community for Rental Housing in Greater Bangkok and beyond.

This is to be a completely 'free service' which will combine the convenience of online apartment and condo listings with an option for personal recommendations and advice via our Interactive Forum. In this way, MrRoomfinder.com will be the most valuable resource for the online housing market in Greater Bangkok.

Our database will as time goes by, provide more information about apartments, condos, and houses in the Bangkok area than any other online home hunting service - period! Subscribe to our RSS feeds and stay informed.

MrRoomfinder does not charge Businesses and Private Landlords to list their vacancies on the site, nor has any limits on how many properties an individual or company can advertise. This means the site can expose all available properties and not only those where a service fee is paid in exchange for exposure. However, those who do sponsor the site will be given top listings should they have properties available for the search conducted.

Update Oct 2007 – After several trail periods, the MrRoomfinder property forum did not get utilised used by home hunters despite our best efforts to promote it. Therefore, we have removed the forum from the site, but we do still link to other property forums for Thailand should our visitors and members need additional help or advice regarding home seeking or general living tips for Thailand. Any comments, please contact the site using the link at the foot of this page.

CREDITS

I would personally like to thank Phil W, a good friend of mine, and webmaster for Thailand's most popular teaching website, www.ajarn.com Phil has contributed greatly with his support, input and advice in many areas of this project.

I would also like to thank Ratchanee M for all the hard work, dedication and loyalty she has shown throughout this project during those early days of development.
More recently, I would like to thank MrRoomfinder's site sponsors, Easy Homes, for their continued support and commitment which they contribute to this project.

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All comments welcome. Have your say and read what others are writing about Mr. Roomfinder dot com. Guest Book here.

Hi, and Welcome to the site.
My name is Aitch - AKA Mr. Roomfinder, the owner and webmaster of this project.

When I first arrived in Thailand, way back in the early 1990's, I was an undernourished globetrotting backpacker, and well adjusted to filth and squalor at the time. This is probably why I felt quite comfortable residing for weeks in a dark and dingy guest house that charged just 40 Baht a night for a box room. That's about $1 US or £0.60p.

This hovel of a habitat was located inside the basement of a run down building in the Banglampoo area of Bangkok. A place I shamelessly referred to as home at the time!
My First Apartment in Thailand Cost Just 3,500 THB/Mo.

Eventually I got my first ever apartment here which cost just 3,500 THB/Mo. It was small, dark, and painfully hot, but considered a comfortable upgrade compared to the dreary hole I’d left behind.

After about a year of living in the above heat trap it was time to move on again. I'd reached the point where I needed space to swing the cat, a window to peer from, and an air-conditioning unit to slow down the dehydration. It was also time for a few creature comforts to make life a tad easier and the living experience a bit more homely.

A larger more airy place was recommended to me around middle Sukhumvit which I promptly took. To be honest, I was reasonably content there for a couple of years, but looking back now I would consider it as an ok studio apartment, but nothing more. I certainly wouldn't want to return there today unless circumstances dictated otherwise.

Well, all these one-room wonders were way back then, but this is now and my days of living in comfortable cells have long ended. Maybe I was just getting too old and fed up residing in single rectangular spaces, I don't know, but what I did know was that the time had come to find a ‘home’ as opposed to a crash-pad, and for me that meant rooms, views, and choice locations, and the old Krungthep has no shortage of them.

The last few years have seen me in a spacious 3 bedroom dwelling in down town Bangkok, and 2 smart 1 bedroom condos in other parts of the city, all of which had elegant décor and mod cons to boot.

Bangkok has an Absolute Abundance
of Places to Live!

One thing I’ve realised over the years is that Greater Bangkok really does have an absolute abundance of places to live. There are so many hidden gems around this city, there really are, but most folks don't dig them out because it's just too hot, too difficult, and too frustrating traipsing around these streets as an opportunist, and this is the problem!

Even for those of us that love this city, there’s no getting away from the fact that during daylight hours it’s an unbearably hot, noisy, dirty, polluted, and complicated place to trudge around looking for homes. This is why so many of us end up taking what's easiest at the time as opposed to what we really want.The good news is that life these days is so much easier for the virtual home seeker. Now that most of the country has easy access to that ‘Information Highway’, the trauma of finding a new place to live has become a whole lot easier with the birth of Mr. Roomfinder dot com.

I designed this website specifically with the home hunters of Bangkok in mind. Now it's possible to view properties which are advertised by Bkk's private landlords and numerous agencies, and all this from the comfort of your home or office PC. I've also created a 'Wish List' facility which will enable you to save and make a shortlist of potential homes and then retrieve them from any computer in the world whenever you need them.

MrRoomfinder will never be a completed project. It will continue to develop so long as there are visitors to the site and properties advertised on it.

Sit back and enjoy the continual progress of Mr. Roomfinder! All comments and suggestions are most welcome, be that positive feedback or constructive criticism.

Thursday May 12, 2005

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