Hi. I have been in Japan sometime now and I'm considering buying a used apartment in Tokyo. I purchased one about 2 years ago and we're currently living in it. I would like to buy another for an investment. One of the reasons is because education in Japan is so expensive and with an apartment in a good location in Tokyo my kids could go to very good public schools. I'm very aware of the price of private school education in Japan. Some schools may charge over a million yen entrance fee and then a monthly fee of around 40,000 yen per month or more. I figure I would be able to rent out my current apartment at the sametime.
I have no experience doing this kind of thing and don't know the ins and outs of investment property. I'm sure there must be many pros and cons of doing this over here and would be interested to hear your opinion.