Was hoping to rent out the spare room in my house long term next year but can’t find anywhere to list it unless I wanted to do short term or hire a realtor. Popular sites don’t allow individuals to list, only realtors. And then Craigslist doesn’t cover the Kanazawa area.
Does anyone have an idea of sites to list it on?
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Not my area of expertise, but when you don’t seem to be able to do something sometimes you’re not supposed to.
Is there a chance that you might not be allowed to rent that room because one of the following reasons?
– Not being the owner
– Not being a realtor
I was reading the other day that the ishikawa jets have a facebook for buying/selling stuff–Ishikawa Trash Place.
I’d ask first, but they may okay a rental listing.
Or if you’re near one of the universities, and a student is okay, you may be able to work thru them. (tho some students prefer to live near downtown, where their jobs are, and then commute to school)
Probably what you want is something known as Room Sharing, ルームシェア. This place was the first thing that came up for me and it doesn’t seem like it requires you to be a realtor: https://roommate.jp/.
If you don’t own the place, make sure your landlord allows room sharing, many have or have updated their lease terms to disallow it lately.
There won’t be any type of formal leases involved here though. I think you actually need a realtor involved to have any kind of binding tenant agreement in Japan.