Notes on office space

Selecting and office space in Hanoi was rather easy.  I am a small company looking to enter the Vietnam market rather quickly and inexpensively.  So ideally I would be able to find an office space that is already built out. Even better would be if it has furniture in it.
As you may have seen in several of my other posts, that is exactly what I found. It turned out that the one i selected was the only one that a realtor search found so this might be somewhat rare.  As I was talking noncommittally. The building manager evaluating the space she did say that she would repaint the space at no cost and give us the first month free so that we could do our office fitting out.    Once I agreed however we had to work remotely in order to put the deal together. Where the quick turnaround time starts to become an issue. We talked about a start time about 7 days in the future with a one month period for a fitout.
This seems like plenty of time to implement t.  However we had to deal with a 150 page agreement,  the first original came from hanoi via some 6 day mail,  then I had to had to have time to review sign and return.  Next it takes about 3 business days for a check to clear. So realistically the lease dates started well before payment had been made and the agent is willing to turn over the keys.

Since I was not there but my office manager was he received the "handover" document.  Apparently this document is very important as the realtor was hesitant when I called her about meeting to pick up the keys.  I will be anxious to see what it is.

Once the office had been painted I asked the lard lord for a suggestion for an Internet contact.  Previously I had requested a couple of contacts in the landlord forwarded them to me. However my attempts to contact them via email and no one ever responded. Each of the Contacts also have a phone number however when I attempted to call the phone number they did not speak English so we could not get anywhere with any kind of order. Sorry I asked the landlord pearl pearl again this time she did a warm and nice and sent an email conversation that she was having with him.  I was able to respond to both of them and jump into the middle of the conversation and they very quickly forwarded Oracle. Internet speeds are interesting in that I can buy 100 mags for about $90 however only 2% of that speed is for international. That means that the majority of traffic we would be doing is severely restricted. It will be interesting to see how much speed we actually get.