The offers I've seen feel "too good to be true" on this website. Here is an example https://minimini.jp/detail/00010012/1310627496/0002/ no gift money or deposits. Aside from the one time pay fees like sanitation and moving in fees (not that much) whats the catch? What am I missing? In other posts I read people having to pay like 300k or more to move in. I have a tight yearly budget and so I'm trying to avoid paying all those crazy fees.
by QuickSwordTechIrene
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The catch is that the apartment probably doesn’t exist.
A lot of listings on real estate websites in Japan aren’t current listings, or even apartments that exist at all. A lot of listings are just “hooks” to get you to call the real estate agency that posted the listing, and then they’ll show you stuff that is actually on the market.
It’s a 49 year old wooden building 20 minutes from the nearest station with a tatami room and nearly 1km to the nearest supermarket. What *isn’t* a catch?
Around 250,000 yen?
* First month’s rent: 55,000
* Agency fee: 55,000
* Disinfection fee etc.: 17,600 + 17,600 + 35,000
* Guarantee company: 30,000-55,000
* Fire insurance: around 15,000
* Key: around 10,000
It’s wooden, so there’s a good chance the noise from the neighbors will be quite loud, it’s very far from the station (20 minutes on foot), and it’s in a low-lying area near a large river, so there’s a high risk of flooding.