Why would he loan you a house when he didn't even know you?
>>732777801he knows an easy mark when he sees one
>>732777801it sounds like you think he's doing you a favor, when in fact he stands to make a ton of money off of you.
>>732777801He's a kind man and construction is probably comically easy when you have Tanuki magic.
>given a house the moment you arrive>you have a "debt" to pay but it's never enforced>you have "expansions" to pay for but you never have to expand>you don't pay rent, or utilities, or interest>the absolute worse thing is that he might mention the money you "owe" whenever you talk to him at his shop, otherwise it's like the whole thing doesn't existAnd this is meant to be the face of predatory small town capitalism?
>>732777801Its an investments for all the condoms the females villagers will buy after moving in
Because he has big balls
holy shit look at him go
>>732777801That's just how it was back then. All you had to do was look him in the eyes and give the boomer raccoon a firm handshake.
Let's just say I didn't pay with bells
>>732779132Nooks goal is to build a community out of initial generousity, but if they want luxuries and acceptance they will have to work and pay for it, ultimately making him money, some of which he will recruit new people with.It's what a lot of "religious" communities do, build a loyal group, who will politely weed out the people that don't chip in through passive abuse and aggressively accept people who comply with their community.Nook barely has to do anything at this point other than bring in new suitable people, preach a bit about his generous ways here and there to reenforce it and let his cultists do the work and praise for him.