The customer is God, unless he or she are tenants, in which case they are insignificant low-life peasants.

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1. I was never mistreated as a tenant…

   Something breaks, I call, they fix.

   But I’m sure this can apply to anything else given a bad situation.

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   For me talking from a customer perspective one of the things that surprised me the most was having problems with NTT HIKARI, and telling them I wanted to end my account with them because I was moving to Nuro.

   In my home country, they would offer you discounts, follow up calls, try to understand why you are leaving, even to a point of giving you free service for 6 months, or stuff like that, here was mostly, OK!, Kakunin, Bye!

2. Well, with all the information you provided just now, I’m gonna have to agree.

3. The law is firmly on the side of the tenant, but you have to live somewhere for a long time to gain the most from the Japanese rental market.

   Initial fees are high, yes, and there is a lot of scrutiny put on each application, but the rent does not get raised very often and it is difficult to evict someone.

   Foreigners here for a short time get filtered into low quality housing situations. I’m guessing you are at this stage.

4. I don’t know. Tenants rights here are pretty strong.

5. Not to disagree but I haven’t felt this way at all so far in my 5 years renting. What exactly went wrong for you?

6. Landlords, as a concept, in most situations: scourges and blights on a system that keep housing out of reach for low income buyers (although there are greater offenders in that ecosystem, tbh). Housing is a human right, etc etc.
   Landlords, in most of my experiences: quite nice, really. Tenant laws here are really strong, too. Ours bring us beer and snacks all the time because they get so much of it from their day jobs and don’t really drink, let us build a garden in the parking lot, and let us get a dog even though pets aren’t allowed. 10/10, would rent here again.

7. Noyain’t.

8. There are some horrible landlords out there, but I was fortunate enough to not ever experience what some of y’all are. legal rights massively favor the tenant so you should look into it.

9. Shouldn’t be. Hasn’t been the case either, back when I was tenant or now as a landlord myself. Is it possible you have a landlord that is trying to intimidate you?

10. This is just so far from the truth

11. Customer is god until they pay or sign a contract

12. I can only speak from my personal experience but I’ve had at least 5 landlords and never a problem.

    I’ve never had a problem with long term Japanese tenants as landlord either.

    Foreigners staying for minpaku? That will bring the crazies, but that’s why I don’t do that anymore. The stories I could tell…

13. What? Tenants have waaaay more power here than back in my home state in the US. Peasants would probably not have those kind of protections.

14. We should just rename this sub to TrashTalkJapan for all the shit like this that constantly gets posted. It’s fair play to criticize the place you are living in but if half of these OPs are really so unhappy living here they should rethink why they are here in the first place. Nowhere is perfect but this isn’t the hellscape that half of these posts are trying to pretend it is.

15. No ? Tenants are very well respected here man

16. Moved a few times and never had an issue with landlords. What exactly are the issues you are facing?

17. Currently renting a house and our landlord is a fantastic guy. Brings us farm-fresh produce pretty often, has always fixed whatever issue has come up. Been a fantastic experience.

18. Sounds just like the USA, to be honest with you.