RetireJapan

Monday 25 can not make, but definitely interested. Living in Kanagawa. Igor ( Sydney) Also interested, but due to time and location unfortunately not able to make it. Am close to Yokohama, just wondering are there any meet ups there? I'd also be interested in a meet up in Yokohama if there are othe...

I would say, absolutely, if renting, save yourself the grief with private landlords, and go for a UR. I was amazed at how well it worked in my situation (forced to retire at 65 from a UK organisation). All I had to do was show a current bank statement that showed that my bank balance was a multiple ...

[/quote]

One post is fine. Or a link to somewhere you are listing them.
[/quote]

Is it ok for me to post some books too, Ben? I've been having the same problem as the original poster. Or does that risk turning Retire Japan into a fleamarket?

I think most of us would have heard about this before if it really was as the OP described. I suspect something has been lost in translation. Well, here is the original I got from the estate agent, so for those who want to challenge their translating chops, どうぞ！ I think many might conclude that he ...

Thinking about this logically (not necessarily a good idea when it comes to government bureaucracy), maybe this is what's happening: 1. You buy a property and they put your name on the deed. They also put your address, which at the time of purchase is your previous address, not the address of the p...

Yes, exactly that, Ben. They just didn't think how it would come back to haunt us years down the line, and they didn't bother to digitise the old information to avoid the problem.

So basically the way the guy at Immigration explained it was that for people like judicial scriveners, they need the proof that we lived at the address pre 2012, and the juminhyou system doesn't capture what happened pre-Zairyu card. We had all our old gaikokujin touroku shomei shos (ie pre 2012 gai...

Where are you getting the idea of 10 year depreciation? Depreciation depends on building structure and age of the building, it can be anything from 47 to just 4 years. Or do you mean mortgage deduction? That only applies for own home mortgage not for renting out. I'm guessing that is depreciating t...

Just had a brown trouser moment days before scheduled completion of sale of an apartment because even though the agent was Century 21, our agent did not know about this. Quite possibly, unless your agent specialises in non-Japanese residents, they won't either. Result, we had to reschedule completio...

I did something similar 10 years ago and have never looked back. I would second the idea of renting it out, and the depreciation I think is for 10 years, which can then make it very worthwhile. I'm not exactly sure, but I think I heard that some owners buy properties, rent them out for 10 years and...