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Black_Beer_Man · Joined: 26 Mar 2013 Posts: 453 Location: Yokohama

I don't like my apartment. It has thin walls and I always hear my next door neighbor arriving home and banging into things (sometimes my wall) when he comes home from work. Of course, when I saw this apartment for the first time with the real estate agent, it was the middle of the day. Everybody in the building was at work, so it was a quiet as a church.

I wondering if it is possible to break the lease and move out? If it's possible, what costs are involved?

Has anyone on this board done it?

marley'sghost · Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 255

kah5217 · Joined: 29 Sep 2012 Posts: 270 Location: Ibaraki

Depends. My lease is actually a sublease in disguise - the company rents from leopalace and sublets to me, upping the rent a little and adding a six month minimum before I'm allowed to move without penalty.

TWG · Joined: 25 Oct 2007 Posts: 39

I had to pay to pay the rent for the month after I left as an early leaving penalty. But after the first two year lease was up I simply had to give a month's notice.

This was a tiny little kopo down in easy-going Miyazaki-Ken. I don't know where you are, OP. But as pointed out above, check your lease... or get someone who is bilingual to do it for you if you can't.

But how bad is this guy, really? I've never lived in a single apartment anywhere in the world where you couldn't hear the neighbours going about their business.