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Property Management Agreement

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The Yen Foreign Exchange Rate

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 The Manager will pay all bills related to the property using the rental income. This included building and association fees, utilities (when payable by the Owner), insurances fees, acquisition and annual possession tax, utilities, etc..
-For some buildings, it is not possible to set up automatic payments of the monthly building fees. To avoid excessive transfer fees and to save the amount of time the Manager spends at the bank in such cases payments are made once a year, usually at the beginning.
+For some buildings, setting up automatic payments for the monthly building fees is not possible. To avoid excessive transfer fees and save the Manager time spent at the bank, we make these payments once a year, usually at the beginning.
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 '''Founder/President'''
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 Erik Oskamp came to Japan in 2004 and applied for a mortgage the first day. Within 2 months of research he bought his first property in Tokyo, a 3 bedroom house in Shirokane. By 2005 he bought his first investment property. During this process Mr. Oskamp encountered a lack of transparency in the Japanese real estate market and so proceeded to built computer models to assist with the statistical analysis. By 2006 he was able to realize his first capital gains with a 60% profit on the house in Shirokane. This encouraged him to take a more serious look at real estate. When many friends and colleagues started asking for information he realized the need for a real estate agency specialized in helping foreigners dealing with the Japanese market. He started Akasaka Real Estate in September 2007. He took advantage of the financial crisis by purchasing more properties in the dark days of early 2009. By 2010 many investors started following this strategy.
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 Chito Kera joined Akasaka Real Estate in October 2011. He has worked as a real estate agent for over 5 years as such has extensive experience with all aspects of real estate transactions. Kera-san speaks native Japanese and business level English.
 === Saya Yabusaki ===

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−	Looking at this chart the yen currently looks seriously undervalued as it is way above it's long term mean. According to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index Big Mac Index] by the [http://www.economist.com Economist] the yen is also undervalued [http://www.economist.com/node/16646178?story_id=16646178]. However according to an [http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/624 article] by David Weinstein the methodology to calculate the CPI in Japan differs from the US and results in an overstatement of inflation by 0.8% compared to the US. This would mean that the yen is even more undervalued. The average inflation corrected rate since the yen started floating after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord Plaza Accord] is 79.30.	+	Looking at this chart the yen currently looks seriously undervalued as it is way above it's long term mean. According to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index Big Mac Index] by the [http://www.economist.com Economist] the yen is also undervalued [http://www.economist.com/node/16646178?story_id=16646178]. However according to an [http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/624 article] by David Weinstein the methodology to calculate the CPI in Japan differs from the US and results in an overstatement of inflation by 0.8% compared to the US. This would mean that the yen is even more undervalued. The average inflation corrected rate since the yen started floating after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord Plaza Accord] is 81.98.