House Tour of a $5000 Japanese House + Akiya Investor

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[@DanielandYuka]

OMG that was lucky the beehive wasn’t active anymore! Beautiful huge house with a lot of potential!

[@juliuszavatskis4215]

Howdy. I think you would really benefit from getting 360 camera. Something like Insta 360 x3. Saying that as the tours you do it is not really showing much with action camera. Filming with it is also 10x easier as after filming you chose what angles to include in youtube clip and what to show. It is more work to make the video but video quality for house tours part would drastically improve to my opinion. Additionally you would have more content for using it later when making other videos and if you need some examples - you just export the angles you are interested with things that you talk about. Hope that helps! By the way - doing good, keep it going!

[@FrauWNiemand]

I think this house is huge, perfect for a family of t3 or 4. The soko, good to go as a garage or garden shed or for guests visiting is great. But I can't see the "trash" in 2:02. For mee this old wood is upcycling material for raised beds and rose pergolas.

[@lukassanjaya7945]

Interesting.

[@MonkeyHero]

Im curious why you would want to put a wall over a closet, when having storage space is a selling point. Thats just less volume for places to put things like bedding. Why not just a simple paint job inside if the closet is sturdy?

[@FrauWNiemand]

I was thinking exactly the same thing. Thoug japanese People going towards this extremme minimalsim style in house decoration there should be at least a place to store all the ahvings in the first place. When I came to Japan I always was busy where to put my belongings. FOr me a wall closet woulld be a clear selling point.

[@MonkeyHero]

@@FrauWNiemand exactly. Its in-line culturally because they tend to put their foldable futon bedding in the closet when they are done sleeping. So keeping the closet is kind of part of the average room, generally. They store things away and take them out daily depending on the purpose of the room. But youre right, generally the minimalist design philosophy would dictate having places to keep objects out of site for a cleaner wall look.

[@lethfuil]

Yeah, I too don't quite agree with the "as cheap as humanly possible" kinda renovation idea. Sure, you have to make it cheap for your profit, but how much more would it really cost to just keep the closet? Would it really be THAT much more expensive that getting rid of storage and potentially hiding a partially rotting wall is worth it?

[@Icarus719]

Is it worth for a foreign student to restore an old house in Japan?

[@ANTONINJAPAN]

If you are planning on staying in Japan, it might be worth considering!

[@militogonzales7829]

i saw 35k dollars akiya in yamaguchi countryside , renovation cost almost 200k hundred it seems these akiyas are money trap

[@ANTONINJAPAN]

If you dont have the know-how, it can definitely be a money trap.

[@Ken-nv2hl]

When you buy a place for renovation you need to figure out how much it will cost you in money, time and effort. Then see the difference between an akiya and a fully renovated place in the area to see how much you can make.

[@lethfuil]

So, 235k in total. That's what you're looking at? Well, first you need to look at the level of renovation. Was it just that the house was basically rotten, or was the final result more on the luxury side? Then you need to look up what a fully renovated house of whatever level, of that size, with that land etc would usually cost in that region. Is it 150k? It was a money trap, you got unlucky and/or didn't have the necessary experience. Is it 250k? Well, you got it within a normal price range. Got what you paid for, that's perfectly fine. Is it above that? 300k? 500k? Then you still spend 235k, but you got way more for your money. You see, it's not that easy to say without any further information AND, of course, an Akiya will require a certain amount of knowledge/experience to make it a perfect deal.

[@HochuPivka]

So, technically, if someone is to rent akia in Tokyo instead of apartment, they’ll get bigger place and cheaper?

[@lethfuil]

How would you rent an abandond house? You can buy one and fix it for cheaper than buying a new one, but renting could be difficult and undesirable in it's state.

[@HochuPivka]

@@lethfuil that's what I meant, sorry for the typo

[@lethfuil]

@@HochuPivka All's good. In that case: YES. You can buy and renovate an Akiya for cheaper (and often better) than renting something. You just HAVE to keep in mind that you'll need a certain amount of know-how to do so!

[@Josh-gv4lc]

Holy shit! I finally saw him blink!!

[@EvaChan]

Uhm... That looks more like a wasp nest!! 😱

[@rabote007]

Too good

[@FrauWNiemand]

I just recognized that many of these japanese hosues are made of wood instead of stone like we're used in Europe. I could imagine that people like to live in western houses who are more stable at the first sight and have better isolation in winter time. And the wiring with the cables lying directly on the wood let me go mad as a German, used to CE and TÜV and DIN.

[@Soldrakenn]

In Sweden most old houses, and many new are built with wood. We have many houses older than 100 yrs made with wood. Only in southern most Sweden they just to build with stone, since wood was more scarce

[@lethfuil]

​@@Soldrakenn Yeah, the "Europe" part wasn't quite accurate. BUT, I do know old swedish wooden houses (and finnish and russian ones), as well as "old" japanese houses (lots of them aren't even THAT old) and the difference is pretty big still. The thickness of the wood alone is worlds apart. Which also is the reason why here, in Bavaria, we do have old wood houses still too, but they're usually around 300 years old. But, whatever, I'm writing this from my stone and brick home that was built in 1403, so...:P

[@Soldrakenn]

@@lethfuil yeah for sure, Swedish wooden houses are nothing like japanese ones, but the op comment didn't mention the thickness of the wood, just said that the difference was due to the difference between wood and stone houses, which is just wrong, hence my comment :)

[@lethfuil]

@@Soldrakenn I absolutely didn't want to say otherwise. I just wanted to add to your correct comment.

[@markopolo13245]

was there water inside the microphone or something, i had to listen with one ear phone off

[@motivationalyear]

So, you're telling me $6k for a house, $9-15k to renovate depending on who you end up working with, and let me say you own at least 3. That is simply $63k a year.

[@motivationalyear]

Hell yes!! I am definitely interested, but I am all the way from the Netherlands. I have the money, but where do I even start?

[@WhiteDragon689]

Trash in Japan... its cheaper to ship it to a foreign country.

[@lethfuil]

Don't ship it to mine though. It's almost as expensive here too.

[@nudaveritas8195]

Um... that's not a bee's nest. That's an Asian giant hornet's nest. You're lucky it was uninhabited, or you would be in hospital right now fighting for your life.

[@lethfuil]

Oh, I thought wasps (definitely not bees though). But those hornets...that's worse. o.o