You obviously don't know me at all mate.

Lamma Gung,

With the building of illegal structures on the third floor roofs, does this mean we'll be able to rent 100 Sq. Ft on Lamma soon, i.e, like the cages in Kowloon for about HK$1,500-2,500 per month per cage?

You can fit about four cages in something 10X10 ft, that's about HK$6-12,000K per month extra, on top of your standard HK$20,000 charge for the third floor plus roof - however, do the LandLord's deal with those in the cages, or are these sub-let out?

Also, I thought "Gentirifacation" was about raising the standards and ambience of Lamma, rather than demoting it to a 'third world' slum?

Further, its hardly like Soho on the Main Street, so if I'm paying HK$25,000-HK$50,000 per month for my flat, should I not expect at a minimum bars, eateries and pizza palaces similar to Soho, rather than the more down market fayre and useless 'tack' shops we presently have?

I quite fancy a nice glass of "Chateau Le Chateau" Al Fresco on a Spring afternoon - obviously, with my rent I can't afford a full bottle, but who cares?

No doubt Alan Zeman is already eying Main Street up, so there's another investment opportunity - I think I'd make a good property agent on Lamma, indeed, I think by Spring 2014 a three storey village house should be pulling in HK$100,000 per month in rent, that's three flats and the rooftops for cages - ferry may get a little crowded though, so best we all start demanding the resumption of the old three tier ferries - I can open a nightclub on one of these and make even more cash off the much vaunted "Yuppies"!!!!!!!!!!!

Just a thought, but ain't unfettered capitalism fun, and Hong Kong according to the Hoover Institute, is the most freest economy in the World, so why don't we all just call it HK$50,000 a month each to live on the island - who knows, one day we may even get a "club House" and swimming pool - can't be bad!

Indeed, you can get a decent apartment under $30K in Mid-levels with satellite channels with club facilities, even you are bound to be in Hong Kong, whats the point living on Lamma, unless you are bound to be in Hong Kong, given the presence of european situation, you can live much better with the same amount of money on accommodation in Ibiza, Sicile, San Sébastian etc

The general rule for property ads in this free forum is that the advertisers can't charge commission and that it should be their own or their friends' flats. If we suspect property agents advertising here we'll throw them out and ask them to advertise on the home page (which they never do).

Not a single agent has ever advertised on this site, except one who was selling a few small flats for around $1 million each around 10 years or so ago. An entire old-style 2-floor Chinese house in Ko Long was advertised for $1 million, but never found a buyer back then.

Of course, agents might contact people looking for flats here directly, not much we can do to stop that on a public forum.

Enforcing charges and collecting the money for any classifieds would be such a head-ache and administrative overhead, I couldn't handle it myself. I think that it would be hardly worth my effort and time to follow up and collect this kind of small charges as they wouldn't be voluntary and advertisers would try hard to avoid them, of course. But if somebody, not an agent, promises a donation for any classified ad, we might make their post sticky, giving them top-of-the-classifieds exposure for several weeks or until sold. Thank you, adamk, for your just received donation!

This site still relies on (completely voluntary) advertisers and the occasional, very rare donors and sponsors. I hope that my long-time acquaintance and nice guy Damian will be one of them, despite all the heat he's getting here.