Generally, living conditions in Beijing or the apartments provided by Expertise are much better than you are likely to find in backwater places, like where I am in the Northeast of China.
Never have I encountered any Expertise provided apartment that did not have a flush toilet or hot water, which my current accomodation lacks.

What is the housing like? Tell me about the apartments.

At Expertise Education, foreign teachers who accept a contract that includes housing are provided with housing accommodation close to the school where they work. Apartments are clean, fully-furnished, and modern, with Western-style amenities, including a bedroom, living space, and kitchen. Some of our branches only have one foreign teacher. If that is the case, you can live by yourself. Otherwise, you will share an apartment, including all utilities fees, with one or two other foreign teachers. The maximum number of teachers we will place in one apartment is three. Although your rent is covered as a part of your contract, you will need to pay monthly utilities (water, electricity, and gas), which come to about 100 RMB/person/month. If you would like internet in your apartment, there are two options for payment: one option is calculated by month and is 150 RMB/month, while the other is per hour and is 2 RMB/hour. For more information, follow this link to our
Housing Section

You must have worked in some right old rum dives in North East China. I have had three jobs there and always had decent toilets and hot water, moreover I didn't have to pay for the latter. So, I assume you are a masochist, wanted to keep the status -quo, so toddled off to Beijing to work at Expertise.

I have just visited their site as you can see by the above. I recognise their bullshit language, a right gang of [edited] and [edited] as sure as eggs is eggs. Why would an individual want to leave his pancakes and happy home in Pennsylvania in order to share a flat with three other FT's? Why would he want to pay for utility bills unless he's earning 20,000 RMB, not to mention top rate for internet. And you have to buy your own computer???? What will your girlfriend think when there's two other blokes hanging about? My God! Right old bromide situation that. How can anybody accept a situation like that?

"If you want bloody internet connection......" Yes, I bloody well do and it better have a new computer and printer plugged into it when I arrive- otherwise I unarrive very quickly.(artistic licence)