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man, I don’t know why I thought it was going to be easy. To move into an apartment here in Japan you need a Japanese co-signer/sponsor to make it work. This is probably well documented and complained about on many other gaijin in japan websites so I won’t go into it. The school set up my current apartment for me before I arrived last August, and they naturally were the sponsors. For some reason though, they won’t sponsor me for this new apartment. There are two types of apartments for teachers at my school- one is the school apartments, which are spread out around Matsudo and are taken care of by the school. Then there is the non-school Private style, this is common for teachers who are already living in Japan. The teacher whose apartment I am trying to move into is going back to their own country, and he lived in a Private apartment. There is another teacher from my school living in a school apartment in the same building. What I can’t get yet is why the school won’t sponsor me for my move there (or why they say they can’t just make this new “private” apartment a School Apartment) when they are already sponsoring me for the one I am currently in. They are not going to be put out anything- I am the one who would be paying all the key money to the landlord AND realestate agency (78000 yen EACH) plus 2 months rent as a deposit. I am not asking the school to pay the roughly 3 grand it would cost for me to move. Jeeze I could buy a new leica for that. …and after writing that I wonder which might be the better choice. But anyway without a Japanese national to co-sign for me I will probably just stay where I am. Maybe I ought to just buy that bicycle I want- Which is one of those you see in china town or outside soba shops- big bulky black things with wide tires, leather seats and a system of rods instead of wires for braking. If I have to get pitted out by the time I get to the closest train station I might as well do it in less time than it takes to walk.

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yeah I am going to stay put. Thats best for my wallet for now. I figured I could have a better summer with money in my pocket.

SCREW KEY MONEY!