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Dipso · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 194 Location: England

The Aeon rents are capped at 55,000 yen at the moment, I believe.

Do you really want to live with the people you work with, as you may at Nova? It's not always the best idea. *shudders*

bcc5151 · Joined: 23 May 2007 Posts: 3 Location: VA - USA

Thank you all for your input. After long deliberation and careful thought I decided to go with the 12 month Yamaguchi package offered by AEON Corp.
Thanks again for all of your opinions, Wink

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nonsmoker · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 3:42 am Post subject: Re: The grand conclusion

stillnosheep · Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 2068 Location: eslcafe

Re: Remaining alone in a multi-person Nova apartment:

It doesn't happen.

i) few teachers stay long enough to be able to afford the equivalent of 4-5 month's rent needed to pay the 1 month deposit + at least that in agency fee + the same again in non-refundable 'key money' + 1 month rent in advance etc. And even if you they the odd 250-300,000 yen handy, is it worth having to kiss goodbye to most of it for ever?

ii) If one teacher moves out, Nova simply move another in (but theoretically the answer is "Yes". Nova re-let the apartment by the room, and each teacher is responsible for paying his/her rent. Nova pay for the apartment and pocket the (often huge) difference, which is one way that they subsidise their hugely loss-making eikaiwa business.

Aeon apartment: subsidised to 46,000 (not 42,000) yen for a single apartment with own bathroom and cooking facilities. Teachers tend to stay about 18 months. Aeon not perfect by any means.

Nova apartment: 60,000 - 70,000 for a room in a shared flat, Nova raking in the difference between the rent you all pay to live in communal squalor and what the apartment is really worth. Most teachers leave the company after 6 months. On top of which Nova have just posted a multi-billionyen operating loss for the last financial year. Will Nova still be there when you arrive?

EDIT: This post was a reply to Japolak's question at the bottom/top of page 1: "Say you live with 2 other roommates in your NOVA apartment...and then say both of your roommates move, would you be still paying around 70K a month still for a 3 bedroom apt?"

Somehow I'd missed that there was a page 2. Anyway, I'm glad the OP decided to give Nova a miss and hope s/he is happy in Yamaguchi.

6810 · Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 309

canuck · Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 1921 Location: Japan