Comments on: Real Estate slump?

By: kirin

kirin — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:25:02 +0000

Thank you so much!! You're so nice and kind. I got it~! (^0^)/~~

By: Shibuya246

Shibuya246 — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:45:31 +0000

If you go to "plugins" on the far right hand side tab of intensedebate, you can add smilies and video comments and other things. I like the smilies a lot

By: kirin

kirin — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:30:36 +0000

You're right, I made it from the settings, as you say. Thanks a lot!
One more question. m(_ _)m *sorry for asking you, I'm so tech-challenging person*
How do you get smily icons in the comments? I used to have smily but I lost it since I joined IntenseDebate. So all the smily icons are gone and just texts are left…

BTW, I think YOU are doing pretty well nevertheless it's not long since you started this blog.
I'm also impressed how often you update your posts. Keep up the good work!

By: Shibuya246

Shibuya246 — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:37:23 +0000

Thx for your comment. I think many businesses are having a hard time with reduced orders. I am sorry to hear you also had problems.

I think the setting to get the arrow is in the intensedebate page. look under "settings", they have a box you need to click which says "Enable threads". I think that it is. If not i will check again. You have some good comments on your site. It looks great.

By: kirin

kirin — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:09:13 +0000

I was engaged in house renovation planning business for a while, up until recently. I knew I was losing orders from my customers (real estate companies) in 2008. Orders dropped dramatically as they were having hard time buying new rooms to make renovation.

BTW, I found your comment format looking nice and so I joined IntenseDebate, but I wonder why my screen is different from yours. You have an arrow when you reply to the comment. But not mine (my blog). Is this because of setting?

By: JapanSoc

JapanSoc — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:46:15 +0000

Real Estate slump? | Japan | Shibuya246…

Interesting bloggers insight into real estate prices in tokyo – still expensive?…

By: Shibuya246

Shibuya246 — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:32:23 +0000

That sounds about right. Negative yield and then in another 10 years time they will probably want to knock the building down. You dont get rent money when the building has been turned back to dirt.

By: Shibuya246

Shibuya246 — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:31:34 +0000

It used to be harder to negotiate prices when they were going up, but now it is a buyers market. You can even "low ball" them without appearing rude

By: Shibuya246

Shibuya246 — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:30:34 +0000

body corp 管理費 of YEN 25,000 per month

By: Chris (i-cjw.com)

Chris (i-cjw.com) — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:19:33 +0000

55 sq meters 2LDK in Daikanyama, 30 years old – probably rent out for JPY 200,000 a month if you're lucky. JPY 127,000 in repayments, and I bet that doesn't include management fees (and certainly not tax..), which together probably come to another JPY 50,000 a month. On average you should reckon on 1 vacant month per year, and half a month's rent to fix the place up after each tenant/general repairs… Hello negative yield!

Yup, price still seems very high for this.

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:08:44 +0000

what kind of body corporate expenses are there?

By: whipcracker

whipcracker — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:50:29 +0000

I would say so. That's more than my monthly house payment, and i have a 30yr interest only pymt. can you haggle on the price there in Japan?. And is that apartment near a downtown area?
Well have a great week.
Ja mata ne.