Even you find a shared house you are interested in, you might not know how to make a contract. The procedure of making a shared house contract is a little bit different from a normal apartment, especially viewing a shared house privately. We are going to explain the procedure of viewing it privately, so when you find a nice shared house, please go to viewing it privately!

The Procedure of Making a Contract

Let’s check the procedure of a shared house, compared to the procedure of a normal apartment.

Normal apartment

You go to a real estate agency.
You tell your condition and they pick up an apartment for you.
You go to view an apartment privately with them.
If you like it, you make a contract

Shared house

You search a shared house on web-site.
You send an Email and arrange a schedule to view a shared house privately.
You go to a shared house.
If you like it, you make a contract
You don’t need to use a real estate agent. You just contact a company which manages a shared house directly.

The Way of Viewing a Shared House Privately

To view a shared house privately, you need to contact the company directly. Then, you think where contact information is. We don’t think that you want to search contact information every time when you find a shared house you are interested in. That’s why we have SHARE PARADE.

You don’t need to contact information of a shared house uploaded on SHARE PARADE. You can send a message from our site directly.

Next, we are going to explain a stream to viewing a shared house privately.

1 Picking up 3 to 10 houses you are interested in

When you look for a normal apartment through a real estate agent, the number of apartments is limited, so you have to choose from a few apartments. Therefore, sometimes you have to compromise. However, if you look for a shared house, you can go to view a shared house as many as you want.

Therefore, you can find the best shared house because you can compare many shared houses. Sometimes, it happens that you are not selected by drawing and you don’t pass interview, so you pick up 3 t o10 shared houses.

2 Sending an Email

When you find a nice shared house you are interested in, why don’t you send an email to view the house. You can do it on bottom of house information page. And, it is for free, so it is good that you just talk with people to know atmosphere.



For Example)
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To: Whom it may concern with

Hello, I am John.
I am interested in your house, so I would like to go to view it.

I am available for 1st, 2nd and 3rd December.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.



Sincerely,


John

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It is important to tell them want to view the house and when you want to go.

3 Arranging a schedule with the company

When you get a reply from the company, decide the date you go to view the shared house. If all rooms are not full, you can go to the shared house whenever you want if it is not sudden.

Although there is a situation you get a reply from the company soon, there is also situation you don’t get any reply from the company. Even you found a shared house you are interested in, we don’t recommend it because choosing the company means choosing a house.
※Sometimes an email from the company is in junk mail box, so when you don’t get any reply, you should check it once.

4 Viewing a shared house privately

You meet up at the shared house, and then you split there. In order not to be lost, you should confirm address.

You don’t have to bring anything, but you should bring a camera and slippers.

The Things You Should Check

We are going to introduce four points you should check when viewing a house.

1 A company to manage a shared house

As we explained above, choosing the company is as important as choosing a shared house.

You should check if the company replies late or not, knows a resident well or not and manages a common place or not.

In our opinion, we think that a good company is likely to be close to a residents. For example, they say “Hi”, remember resident’s name and talk about each other’s daily life.

2 Residents

A lot of various people move in and move out in a shared house because of merits of a shared house. However, you live with someone, so you should check personality of a resident. For example, a resident can promise a rule or not and there is communication between residents. Anyway, you should check if there is someone you want to live together with.

Sometimes, a resident talk to you when viewing a house privately. At that time, you should ask something in a shared house you cannot hear from the company.

3 Location of a room

Normally, the higher an apartment floor is, the higher the rent fee is. Moreover, depending on light a room can get from a window, the rent fee is changed. It applies to a shared house. Each room has different facilities and layout of each room is different. Therefore, you should check many rooms if more than two rooms are available.

4 Around a shared house

When you go to an apartment with a real estate agency’s staff, they explain what there is around the house. However, when you go to view a shared house, you go there by yourself. Therefore, you check what there is around the house carefully by yourself. For example, even you want to live in this shared house, you have to walk to a grocery shop by 30 minutes. It is not very convenient.

In order not to regret, you should check it carefully.


If you are thinking that you want to live in a shared house, why don’t you go to viewing once. You can know real atmosphere of a shared house by going to view.