Loaner Furniture

It has come to my attention that the loaner furniture will only be delivered once (uless you have things on back order) and picked up once.  What this means is if you "borrowed" beds from housing while waiting for your beds to show up in your HHG shipment, and you want to return them when you don't need them any longer it is going to cost you!  So, only "borrow" thing things you don't have coming on your shipment.

What I have heard from several friends when they tried to return beds was that if housing was to do the pick up they would also pick up the fridge, washer and dryer as well. This poses a problem technically because we are not allowed to ship major appliances over here. We all had to put our washer/dryer and if we had them, refrigerators into storage.  If you want to arrange for a partial pick up of "borrowed" furniture you will hae to pay a fee.  The fee my friend was quoted for one twin-sized bed was $100!

Let's hope that with all the new family members here these kinks will get worked out. This is what I think the Housing Office should do with the loaner furniture.
1. Have plenty of furniture on hand so service members don't have to ship any of their furniture here.
2. If a Service Member has "borrowed" furniture they are not  longer needing (due to HHG) and want to turn it in they should come get it for free (see #3).
3. If all the "Extra" "Borrowed" furniture was turned in then there probably wouldn't be such a back log of people waiting for furniture that are sitting on the floor to eat dinner, watch TV, etc!

Since this area is new to having family members we need to help them get the system up and running correctly. Let's all do our part and fill out the ICE cards and let them know not just our grievances but also our recommendations to help the system work better.  Remember we can all work together to make this a great assignment for everyone coming here.

Red Cloud Community One Stop

Camp Red Cloud has combined all the offices you need to go to into one convenient location, BLDG S-267. This is really convenient. When we moved here we had to go to a lot of different buildings.
*photo courtesy of "In The Zone, June 2010"

Housing Office on CRC has Moved

The housing office on CRC has now moved to building 267!

Housing Services Office (HSO)

Here is a photo of the Housing Office on CRC. Below is a list of the service they supply. I found this information on their web site. They are very good to work with.
Provide assistance to Military and Department of Defense (DOD) personnel and their families in locating private adequate housing
Listings of realtors and property managers
Rental lease agreements: Negotiate and process lease contracts
Negotiate and mediate disputes and refer to legal assistance when necessary
Interpretation services in dealing with realtors, landlords and utility companies.
Accommodations availability for Temporary lodging
Temporary Lodging Allowance (TLA)
*** AS OF MARCH 1, 2010 THE HOUSING OFFICE IS NOW LOCATED AT BLDG. 267****
DSN Numbers:
USAG-Red Cloud 732-9342
Camp Stanley 732-5733/5073
USAG-Casey 730-4346/4709


SSG Donna Smithers is the NCOIC for Area I Housing and her email is donna.smithers@korea.army.mil.
Overall Housing Chief for Area I is Ms. Clara Greenway at clara.greenway@korea.army.mil.
Housing Chief for USAG Casey is Ms. Miriam Johnson at Miriam.Johnson1@korea.army.mil.

Sindo Apartments

These ones are a bit further from post, five miles out. However by going further from the city you could afford more apartment. Here are some of the pictures. There is a play ground, nice trees. There is a fitness center in the apartments but they are waiting for 50% occupancy to open that up. One picture is of the kitchen, and one is of the living room.  There are quite a few militry people moving in here now which makes me happy. This is also the apartment complex featured in a new Korea video.

Humanji Apartments

These apartments are also close to post. Here are a couple of outside pictures. Remember all Korean apartments are in high rises.

Brownstone Apartments

These are some pictures of the outside of the Brownstone Apartments. They are located close to the post. These are about a 10 to 15-minute walk to post.

These pictures show the outside of the building. The outdoor exercise area and the soccer field.

Realtors

When you go to housing they will give you a current list of approved Realtors for you to use. The Realtors are almost more Property Managers. This is the one we recommend:

Kevin Jung of A-1 Realty
Telephonse: 031-838-7487
Email: A_1kevin@yahoo.co.kr

One nice thing about using Kevin is that we pay him for our rent and our utilities. So it is just one payment a month. He set up the utilities for us so we didn't have to mess with it. He was very good to explain how to use the appliances.

He was really good to show us a big variety of apartments. He was also very easy to get ahold of. He picks you up right outside of the back gate and drives you to the apartments. However with that said use what ever one you feel is best for you. Kevin is just the one we recommend. One of the things I liked about Kevin was that he was very kind and had a great sense of humor.