I’m a US citizen living in Japan (non-permanent resident spouse of Japanese national). Been here for a few years. Shortly after moving here, I bought a little home to live in with my family.
Because of a nice work opportunity back home, my family and I are moving back to the US soon and will be there likely for several years.
I want to keep the house for the future (we may very well live here again), and since leaving it unoccupied would be a shame (and not good for the structure), I would like to rent it out. And of course can really use the extra income after the expensive move.
I’m gonna talk to more pro’s and the tax office about this next week but since it’s the weekend, I thought I’d ask here out of curiosity…
Anyone living abroad have experience renting out their property in Japan through a local rental/real estate company?
If so, how do/did you collect the rent?
How did you file property income tax from abroad? If you had tax withheld at the source and had a refund after filing, how did you collect the refund?
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We had to do this when we had to move to Singapore for a few years. We contacted the agency (century 21) from whom we bought the house and they helped us out.
Iirc they now have a service to pay the property tax on your behalf. They didn’t have this when we moved so we had our friend to help us out.
Regarding the rent, century 21 collected it in our behalf and deduct any necessary amount for maintenance (e.g. aircon service) and deposit the rest to our bank account. Hope this helps!
Where is your house at? Am considering a move soon and might be willing to rent it off you for the next couple of years