Trying to rent a sharehouse is pain

[Haruto Uzumaki]

Mainly just a rant post, but it's quite difficult to secure a share house during these times, and it seems like every management company is experiencing huge surges and all of their houses are full... I've reached out to like 5 different management companies and even ended up finding out that somehow more than one management company can manage and rent out the same share house?? It's crazy how complex this stuff gets, I don't even know if I'll ever understand how the levels of management typically work but it's a lot to deal with especially when you see a property available on the website and send an inquiry, then find out it's full, or not even get a response... Luckily, I think I've finally found one that is in a good location, good price, and the management of that property said it's still available, but that was the last thing that was said before they disappeared for the night, so hopefully it's still that way tomorrow. And the weird thing is how all the management companies have different rules that sometimes apply to the same share house, it just doesn't even make sense.
I can survive outside of Japan, but that's all I've been able to do so far - survive. In Japan I had more of a sense of living than anywhere else I've been so far.
If I can find some place affordable, I think next time I leave Japan it will be to Taiwan, Japan's (little?) sibling. I've heard that it's quite similar to Japan and familiar to the Japanese, so I think it will be a more natural place for me to live as well, in the meantime. Looks like it could be even harder to get a decent share house there, so I would have to find some 台湾人 in Japan or online to help me maybe... but this isn't about Taiwan so
My flight is scheduled for the 4th of March, so hopefully everything goes smoothly up to that point.

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[mdchachi]

You're returning to Japan in high season so it's not surprising. I assume some of them operate like hotels so booking companies can get a commission if they make a booking. So you may not be booking through the actual management company. You could try going farther afield. Like Nagoya or Yokohama or other places less popular than Tokyo or Osaka.

 

[Haruto Uzumaki]

You're returning to Japan in high season so it's not surprising. I assume some of them operate like hotels so booking companies can get a commission if they make a booking. So you may not be booking through the actual management company. You could try going farther afield. Like Nagoya or Yokohama or other places less popular than Tokyo or Osaka.

Yeah but for example TOKYO β apparently lists properties on their website that don't even actually belong to them, but to X-HOUSE （クロスハウス）at least according to the people that call themselves 「シェアハウス事務局」and then there are also properties that formerly belonged to one but belong to another now. Then TOKYO β is owned but also not owned by another company called 「三好不動産東京支店」and they somehow have conflicting move-in rules, despite one being a larger part of the other... it's all very confusing and still there's more to it than that :/
Anyway, I agree with you on moving to a place that's less in demand, but I didn't want to take that risk for my first month out of the three at least. The creative scene just isn't the same outside of Shibuya and Shinjuku, and a few other scattered locations like Koenji and Shimokitazawa. I want to be in the right place at the right time while I'm making my efforts and connections, so I deduced it would be best if I could find a place close to the heart of Tokyo if at all possible, to hit the ground running, and once I've done that, I can move to a place I haven't been before yet if possible, and if I've built up extra connections by that time, then I can continue to build outward from there, hope that makes sense. I figured if I move to a less busy area first, the first month is going to be much slower in progress than I'm hoping for. No matter how good the trains are, it's also inconvenient to have to ride one (and pay for one) just to be in the satured presence of talented people. I checked the statistics, and really, other than Osaka there's not a single area that supports and contains as many creative people as in Tokyo, so I feel like it would be almost similar to just meeting people online and being an hour away from them vs 15 or something.