How We Bought Our Abandoned House in Japan | Process, Costs, Risks, Finance, How to Find One

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nataz · 2023-08 · Strong recommendation

If you are interested in buying an abandoned home in the Japan countryside highly recommend the YouTube channel Tokyo Llama. He's spent the last four years renovating a beautiful traditional style Japanese house and property about an hour outside of Tokyo. He talks about the renovation aspects, taxes, paperwork process, and the pros and cons of doing this with a family. Lots of videos the watch. [VIDEO]

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shagie · 2024-01 · Recommendation

Should head over to Japan... Exploring the eerie beauty of Japan's abandoned villages --- [LINK] -- [LINK] 171 points | 4 months ago | 126 comments The top comment by nataz: > If you are interested in buying an abandoned home in the Japan countryside highly recommend the YouTube channel Tokyo Llama. He's spent the last four years renovating a beautiful traditional style Japanese house and property about an hour outside of Tokyo. He talks about the renovation aspects, taxes, paperwork process, and the pros and cons of doing this with a family. Lots of videos the watch. > [VIDEO]

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rwmj · 2020-08 · Recommendation

On a similar point, this video goes through the costs of buying an abandoned house in Japan: [VIDEO] To be fair, although there are a lot of "extras", the sums involved still seemed relatively small.

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