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Because these houses are located in remote, rural areas. They have been abandoned because people are moving closer to the cities or the owners are old/dying and they can't continue maintaining them. The money you save from the initial purchase will all come out of the expenses to renovate and maintain the house because a lot of them are run-down.
Of course if you're the type who wants to live in the middle of nowhere, and you have the money and skills to renovate, this can be for you.
Will I meet the Totoro?
Because Japanese visa will never allow for you to live there
You can get 180 days total per year in two sets of 90 so to live in this house you'd have to:
This is no way sustainable not to mention as a tourist you wouldn't have access to anything that requires full residency which is very complicated.
You can get long term visa like education or business investment or work permit etc but those are really expensive and can be very hard to get.
I'd have to be near retirement age while still nimble enough to renovate it and hope my pension and savings would be enough to cover the costs.
Even then, it would be difficult to navigate renovations in that environment where you don't speak the language, have no idea how their houses are supposed to be built, waste disposal and the myriad of other issues that will surely arise.
Getting a job is going to be a bitch - thus the retirement age requirement.
Getting citizenship is going to be an even bigger a bitch.
I'd be an outcast cause of my skin color and inability to communicate.
IIRC Japan's more or less the hardest country out there to immigrate to.
If you think it's a good deal, You could've bought one in Detroit for $1
Well spank my monkey.
There's a 4bd, 2bath with 2500sqft for nearing the price of the shed in Ops picture. https://www.zillow.com/detroit-mi/under-10000
Because you have to pay taxes including the very incredibly expensive purchase tax and annual property tax. And you lack a visa.
I can imagine this would make your taxes wacky
That's a 3.5k shed with no utilities is probably why. Running power, gas and plumbing to that place would cost more than a town of houses.
because it's falling apart and needs a lot of investment to renovate and make it habitable.
I understand the Japanese don't like old houses. Homes are regularly torn down and rebuilt. Do some research, but it might not cost as much as in the West to rebuild.
