Post #808848 by SouthSeasKat on Fri, Apr 21, 2023 8:00 PM

House has been located in the area featured above. 10 minute walk to the beach. On a bus line to an express train into Tokyo or the airport (about 2 hours). Built in 1985. Roof repaired in 2019, repainted in 2014. Has a small yard complete with palm trees and other tropical/sub tropical plants. Enough room for an outside bar. COMES WITH RATTAN FURNITURE. Has been viewed with my agents. Looks good. Formal inspection ordered. If no trouble, I will put in an offer. There have no offers so far, so I suspect I'll get it.

Price, with commissions/taxes/closing costs: ~$70K. I'm looking at dropping about $30K on renovations. Right now it is a four bedroom house, but realistically, given the size of the rooms, it's more like a two bedroom.

Here's the current floor plan, and a dirty job I did in Krita of what I'm thinking.

Japanese construction is post and beam, not timber frame, so most internal walls are not load bearing. It's not Mid-Century Modern, but it has five glass sliding doors and I may be able to turn the entire front wall into sliding glass doors, depending on where the posts are.

No basement, not a thing in Japan, so I'm thinking the Tiki Bar cannot be in the house, or it would need to go in the green room, and I need a guest room/office... So I'm thinking we're looking at an outside bar.

[ Edited by SouthSeasKat on 2023-04-21 20:13:59 ]