Renting requires luck and perseverance

It's so hard to find the perfect place to live in Beijing, and one mostly needs to rely on pure luck.

That seems to be the common feeling among users of several online house hunting group chats. Every time someone brings it up, there is a heated conversation about how desperate the process can be.

Liu He is one of those people. She has been looking for a new place and new roommates for a month, because her contract ended in August and the agency demanded a much higher rent for the next year.