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canuck
Joined: 11 May 2003
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Location: Japan
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| earthmonkey wrote: |
| I found 5 apartments which I wanted to look at. He called all 5 landlords and told them about me; American, in Japan 4 years, 3 years same job and so on. 3 of them said "no thank you". The other 2, no problem. Thats a 60% rejection rate sight unseen. |
Statistally speaking, that's not a big sample size. I found an apartment in Osaka, and the landlord said that as long as I pay the rent, he doesn't care. That's a 100% success rate. 
Being a foreigner is not a big deal these days, especially in Osaka. |
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earthmonkey
Joined: 18 Feb 2005
Posts: 188
Location: Meguro-Ku Tokyo
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 7:20 am Post subject: |
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| canuck wrote: |
| Statistally speaking, that's not a big sample size. I found an apartment in Osaka, and the landlord said that as long as I pay the rent, he doesn't care. That's a 100% success rate. |
I agree that 5 apartments is not a large sample size. But, it is certainly evidence that the issue exists.
I think that one problem for me was that I was looking at nice sized apartments within 5 minutes walk of a very popular station with big demand. These landlords know that their apartments will not stay empty long. Why venture into the unknown by renting to a foriegner when they know that they can easily rent to a Japanese person. I don't like it, but it's easy to understand their perspective.
Happy New Year all. |
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fox1
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
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just... a thought occured to me just now.
So I'm interested in living in a bunka or a nagaya or similar.
What I'm wondering now is..... am I looking in the right places? Do normal real-estate agents handle this kind of thing. (sure, I've seen a few old places thru average RE agents... but by and large, do they even handle bunkas and nagayas?)
I guess.. what I'm really wondering is: Is going into an average real-estate agent looking for a nagaya/bunka/old wooden house like looking for apples in a hardware store!  |
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