Apartment Hunting in HK

I have great apartment karma so I'm not too worried about finding a place. And I've never really had to look for an apartment because I've always heard about places from friends-of-friends so this is going to be an interesting process.

I have tons of agents looking for places for me. Yesterday I walked into this tiny, sweet Chinese woman's office and she showed me two apartments. Both were under 500 sq. ft. and both were under renovation. So there were concrete slabs, ladders, paint buckets, etc. everywhere. And she only had a key for one of them. So for one she said in her Chinese accent, "Look froo hole" and pointed to the hole where the doorknob was going to go.

I told her "thanks, but I need to keep looking."

Then there's this kid, Ridwan, who weighs no more than 80 lbs. that's helping me out. He's cool. He works for this guy that doesn't speak English and seems like an asshole. They dragged me all over town the other day and we're about to do it again today. Then I'm really excited to see an apartment on Gage Street which is the perfect location. Gage street is a traditional Chinese open market but it's still right next to the escalator and near all of my Western conveniences. And the guy that renovated the building used to live in SoHo in NYC and made the apartments feel like a SoHo loft with exposed brick, etc. I have a good feeling about that one.

Am supposed to find out from cousin today whether I'm going to be here for 10 months or 2 years. Am looking forward to finding out what the hell I'm doing.