UPDATE #2:
They got back me, the real estate agencies. ;v;
The first agency said they will help me find a property that allows foreign nationals as emergency contacts.
The second agency said they will help me find a guarantor company that doesn’t require an emergency contact.
PRAISE THE INTERNET LORD. Language barriers and house hunting are both so hard.
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UPDATE #1:
Apparently, the guarantor is the one who is financially responsible if I can’t pay.
And the emergency contact isn’t legally responsible for me in that way \^.
The visa guarantor =/= the housing guarantor.
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The issue I’ve been having is that I don’t have an emergency contact who is Japanese or speaks Japanese. The apartments I’ve been looking at didn’t need a guarantor (I didn’t know what this meant until this thread), but needed a Japanese emergency contact. Some of them allowed them to be foreign so long as they spoke Japanese (I don’t know anyone like that).
Most of them require them to be Japanese, in Japan. The other issue with this is that they won’t allow my school to act as my emergency contact because they want an individual, not a company. My school won’t allow any of its staff members to act as emergency contacts for their students.
(P.S. Please do not bring up my cat thread. I didn’t bring it up in this thread because I’ve got enough crap trying to house just myself, so don’t bring it up here.)
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Removed my OG post cuz it was long and the bot copied it anyway.
P.S. Please do not worry about my mentioned food allergies and why I can’t do a room share. It is literally no different no matter what country I go to, some just have extra luxuries like allergen-free baked goodies (which I don’t need). I need my own kitchen and a grocery store that sells vegetables, fruits, eggs, et cetera (i.e. raw ingredients that couldn’t possibly have my allergens). I’ve already stayed in Japan for a few weeks. It was no trouble. Honestly, it was no different to my experience in the US.
P.P.S. Do not bring up my cat thread. I didn’t bring it up here for a reason. I’m having a hard time housing just myself, let alone finding an apartment that allows pets (actually, I found “a lot” of these. There were way more of them than in my home state. They just weren’t foreigner-friendly LOL. Go figure.).
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