>>2824098
>Why don't we have a general for akiya homes?
because they're akiya for a reason: almost nobody wants them

>>2824098
Because nobody fucking knows what you're even talking about you dumb weeb faggot.
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this belongs in /jp/ methinks, but yes akiya are still common and still go for cheap

>>2824098
wtf are we gonna talk about, the prospects of buying a house in a country most of us will not live in where they speak a language we don't know

>>2824098
>house: :|
>house, japan: :O

i have 1k dollars in my bank account is this enough to buy a "akiya" house?

>>2824098
>Why don't we have a general for akiya homes?
Because no one on /trv/ is going to bother to buy one.
No one, not stationed in the military or long term stable job is realistically going to bother with them or talk about them here.

The amount of hoops you need to jump through to get approval for land ownership, then find a seller that will work with you on it, then do all the paperwork to own one, then all the upkeep required to maintain your job and home. Is something you just either do or don't do.

>>2824390
>The amount of hoops you need to jump through to get approval for land ownership, then find a seller that will work with you on it, then do all the paperwork to own one, then all the upkeep required to maintain your job and home.
Is it that hard? Im thinking of doing it unironically

>>2824426
Last I looked, and rules may have changed but I doubt it has that much in the past few years off the top of my head are:
1. Need a long-term visa if not resident card
2. Need a traditional Japanese bank account with stamp no JCB you opened up randomly. This goes without saying that you'll need a job(almost always) or proof of absurd amounts of funds for anything that could come up in the next 20 years.
3. Going to need to buy in full cash + taxes + fees and often prove you know how to pay utilities/taxes/insurance on your estate
4. Have to buy in an area that allows it, not all areas just allow you to buy whatever think HOA committes on crack
5. Have to show you know how to maintain the house and such if not there 100% of the time

Probably forgetting some nuances but it's a quite a few hurdles, it's more possible to buy around the bases but that's the gist of what you'll need AFTER finding a foreigner friendly agent ReMAX has a few IIRC. I've seen reddit posts where it's "lol not that hard" then forgetting to mention their wife or boyfriend is a native and they essentially got the red tape cut by that alone.

They are a bad idea and bad investment

Owning property doesn't guarantee you a visa or residence in Japan

The properties are old and need repair and maintaince, maybe someone even died in there

They are rural away from everything, which is nice if you want a peaceful life but you would need to be self sufficient working at home or wealthy so why choose this

If you have kids there may not be a school

You won't make friends there

Nothing to do there so you need to fund your own entertainment at home

Considering all that the price isn't reasonable

>>2824203
yeah but
7-11 : |
7-11 japan :D

I would unironically pick up dinner from a 7-11 (or Lawson or whatever) if I couldnt make it to a grocery store. When was the last time you had a 7-11 DINNER?

>>2824648
does it really matter if they are a bad investment when they are so fucking cheap? like I don't think anyone buys an akiya expecting them to appreciate

>>2824660
I meant investment for your future, you'll never be able to sell it, you'll spend more repairing it, so if you have money to throw away why choose akiya

>>2824098
Akiyas are just abandoned houses in varying degrees of disrepair, often in locations with a smaller population. They're a good investment if you:
>Want to live in Japan
>Can get a Japanese visa (just owning the house doesn't grant you one)
>Have the money to repair it
>Have a way to make money when living in Japan in a location far away from urban centers
If you fill all of these highly specific criteria then sure, buy one. But chances are you don't.

>>2824660
I'll sell you rocks for cheap. Would you still buy my rocks? A lot of these houses are worth less than rocks, with my rock at least you don't have to:
>pay annual property tax
>pay a monthly community fee
>maintain the house, cut grass during summer, etc
There's no paperwork involved too, hand over your cash and I'll give you my rocks.
Unless you actually plan on living in the house and somehow make money off of it when you're not around, it's overall just a bad idea romanticized by weebs falling for the epic rural Japan tiktok house restoration driving your ebin keitruck whateverthefuck bullshit you're being fed with on social media. The good thing is at least no one will actually be uprooting their entire lives and throwing away their money because in the first place the language barrier when dealing with the paperwork with deter any undetermined weab, and ultimately none of them have residency, and those that do are probably stuck in a deadend eikaiwa job, which means buying a house is out of the question.

t. actually fell for the epic rural Japan tiktok house restoration bullshit, but instead of just larping online I took my time and waited for the right house to show up. This guy has the perfect summary >>2824681