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Speaker: Storm, thunder, lightning, flood, typhoon, hail. And there's one prefecture that is way above the other ones. And this is a percentage of listings, so I normalize it. So which prefecture has the highest percentage of listings with those words included in the description? There's only one. None other than Oita Ken, our home.
Speaker: All right. I'm just going to start with the dramatic piano, switch it up. All right. Here we go. And we're back joy. I'm glad we switched over from that dramatic piano to who shot you soundtrack. It's been a wild ride. Are you keeping that on this episode? Are you going to switch that? I think let's keep it on. I think we got to change our intro soon. We're almost at season two, right?
Speaker: Sure. I like our intro, but... Okay. All right. All right. We'll discuss, but... It has consistency. It's like when you're watching your favorite TV show and you hear the intro music again, the office intro music. Okay. That's true. I feel like our intro is too long. I feel like I listened to our podcast and I'm like, man, I don't want to hear these fools do the same thing over and over, but again, we've listened to it probably. Oh, the talking part? Yeah. Maybe we take the talking part out, huh?
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah, I think so. All right. Either way, welcome back all dear diary series. I feel like these kind of dear diary series actually get the most traction from people. I think most people mention them over our interviews and I think we'll still plan on doing both, but.
Speaker: What's happening, Joe? Uh, we got a few things to talk about. Um, no huge updates in terms of our own Acia progress. There's a few things there, but no, no big leaps and bounds ahead. Main thing coming up though, is J -Rep conference in, in Tokyo next month. There we go. We were invited by Ziv to speak at the J -Rep conference. I think Joey is going to be doing a.
Speaker: quick data icebreaker. I'm unfortunately going to be surfing in Indonesia. This is a apologies. I'm zero for two on the JREP conference bummed. I think, uh, Ziv's going to give us the after lunch slot to cloud back up. So we're thinking of maybe like more of a fun kind of talk. Uh, Ziv's is going to be technical. Emile's is going to be technical, Tracy's et cetera. So we're going to come out and give a little introduction to Akiya Mart, quick five minutes, just show
Speaker: The website show what some of the properties you can see on there, how to use it. And then we're going to go into some of the cool data points that we can see with this listings database that we've been building over time. Some interesting questions. We can search through descriptions that real estate agents have written and look for specific keywords and then see which prefectures are people talking about rain the most in the description or whatever. And there's some, there's some interesting ones, things you wouldn't expect.
Speaker: So yeah, like a little icebreaker and then if someone guesses a question, correct. We're going to have some t -shirts ready. Hey. Yup. JRAP conference is going to be April 6th, 10 a .m. to 6 p .m. in Tokyo. As Joey mentioned, some giants in the space. Tracy, who does everything Airbnb, Emil, who's a
Speaker: I think the loan, loan God, mortgage God. I feel like he's given us a good info and he's a Tokyo based real estate agent. Ziv who's our intermediary man. The glue is what we call him. Anton. We also talked to Anton. He's I'm a fan of Anton. He's done doing some cool. I think it's designed sick. I've been following him on Instagram. Yeah. I was going to say whichever house Anton had in the, that Vogue magazine shoot really well done.
Speaker: Yeah, clean design. And then Blanca, we haven't talked to Blanca, but I would be interested. I think she does everything renovation or construction. So if you're interested in the space, we'll drop a link in the show notes on where you can buy early bird tickets. They might not be early bird anymore, but we've come a long way, Joey. I think you joined, we had bought our house and you joined like a month. When did you go to the last one?
Speaker: Last J -Rep was I think first week of November last year, 2023. So yeah, we were both in Japan at the time. You had gone back to California and I went to Tokyo around the same time. Yeah. I went to the J -Rep conference. A lot of fun. All the speakers were great and learned a lot. The after conference drinks was a lot of fun too. It's a good time if you're in Tokyo, April 6th.
Speaker: Be there. All right. Joey, we got, we'll work on the presentation. We got to knock this one out of the park. It's an honor to be part of it, but I think we, it'll be fun. I think so too. I like giving like these kind of like little short talks and more fun knowing that we're aiming to be like the fun presentation too. Short and sweet kind of thing with some prizes. T -shirt cannon man. Oh, maybe like how many t -shirts should we press? Like 20, 30? Is that too many? How many people went last year?
Speaker: I'm gonna have to bring an extra suitcase just for t -shirts. Last year, maybe a hundred over the course of the day. Okay. Right on. That's a lot. Maybe 20, we'll do 20 t -shirts or something. Yeah. All right. Last Dear Diary series. I actually just listened to it. We are strongly considering a Sato coffee, a Tokyo Akia that we're like, can we make this into an Airbnb or even a hotel?
Speaker: I was honestly like super pumped on it, but it seems like, Joey, what, what happened? What are our concerns with this place? Yeah. So this, so yeah, Satya coffee, really cool. It was a row house, which was, it was gets downfall here and likely why it's so cheap relative to where it is located in Tokyo.
Speaker: I think it was around, it was like 80, 90 K US dollars, but the row house part is the big issue. So if you wanted to do, and it wasn't just for the Rio can hotel license. If you wanted to do meme Paco as well, part of that process is some sort of fire check. We don't know. We haven't, we're not there yet in our own personal.
Speaker: journey but we got in contact with some people that helped figure out these I mean pocket licensing things and we'll talk about that in a little bit but the main issue with the row house and the fire protocols was that because it's one building.
Speaker: like your neighbors are still physically part of the same building, that whatever fire updates need to be done to your property to do the Mimpaku or hotel license, it also has to be done to every part of the same building. So that would be, you would have to update your neighbor's house with the fire codes, et cetera, which I don't think you'd ever be able to do.
Speaker: We are out. So if you're listening and you are considering a row house, trust us on this one. It's probably not going to work out unless your neighbors are cool with you, kind of like tearing down a wall and making sure it's fire. You have a fire safety stuff. So yeah, beware on row houses. If you're trying to do any kind of short -term rental. Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, sad. I was really stoked about the coffee shop slash Airbnb when we got that news. Yeah. The Sato coffee part was just funny with our contractor Sato -san and we were going to name the coffees after like funny things he had said. We could still do it, but yeah, we looked also, we were also just looking at a apartment in Shinokopo.
Speaker: It was kind of like, it was like a hundred K and it was like, oh, we can link it after it was an existing condo. Yeah. We just didn't feel like it was worth spending that much money for something we're not excited about. I think I'd asked Joey a couple of times, like, what are you excited about? And I think we both aligned that. It's probably a good investment, but just not, if I'm spending a hundred K it's not, it's gotta, it's gotta have some exciting factor, right?
Speaker: Yeah, this one maybe could have been like, I don't know, money maker eventually or something like that. But yeah, it was just like, you know, what the street wasn't very nice. The shops on the street weren't very cool. That it was like in like a hostel or something like that, or part of the same building as a hostel and like the bar.
Speaker: of the hostel bar slash restaurant was just like really sucks. It's okay. No, I do not regret not going for it and maybe someone else will want it. So we'll link that in the show notes, but excited to share. It's another week, another property we're looking at. We are going back to Joey's roots here and looking at a pretty dope spot and she's woke up. Joey.
Speaker: Yeah, I like the Izu Peninsula a lot. Went to high school, did two years of high school there in Numatsu City. I like Izu a lot. Onsen there, there's Surf there. Yeah, we found another spot. It's, it's like a big warehouse. Warehouse fives. So, Shizuoka or Izu is about a three hour, four hour drive from Tokyo. Am I right? Yeah, maybe three. Okay.
Speaker: So we'll also link this. This is an interesting buy and that is definitely not going to be for everyone. So we're not shy in sharing this one because challenge you to want this property because it's hard. I don't know. I feel like people are going to question us like, why did you guys buy this? And simple answers. It's dope, right?
Speaker: Yeah, we got in contact with the agent through, through our friend Cushi who's helping us. We went to ICU with Cushi. We lived in the same dorm as Cushi actually. So we're, we know Cushi really well. He contacted the agent for us and then he came back and I feel like Cushi's list of cons outweighed his list of pros, which.
Speaker: I think is a good sign for us. It means that Japanese domestic buyers, like they don't like this type of property. So I think it's cool. It's picture this hits. I think it's 40 K USD. It is freaking massive. It's like a giant warehouse.
Speaker: With a small house, like a two story house, like in it, or is that the best way to describe it? How do you, how would you describe it? So the agent said it used to be a hardware store. So picture like much smaller than a home Depot. This is like a.
Speaker: I don't know 16th the size of a Home Depot maybe but still pretty big. I don't remember the square footage Anyways, so the front of the street so like the yeah, it's actually really hard to explain it's C -shaped and The warehouse part is the C and then in the center of the C. There's like a small
Speaker: like living apartment slash office section. But it's really cool. It's like a steel framed building. The back part of the sea, so one of the sort of arms of the sea has two floors on it. So there's like another hidden upstairs to the warehouse, which is disconnected from the apartments, the living quarters upstairs as well.
Speaker: You can drive your car right through the building to the back of the warehouse if you wanted to work on cars back there or you had a bunch of heavy stuff you're trying to move. Just a very cool, I think me and Tage both like that kind of way. We have a lot of hobby projects, so it would be a good spot to do all these hobby projects.
Speaker: Remember in New York, you and Mike had gotten that, you guys got like this awesome Williamsburg garage. And I remember going in there, you had, I felt like 30 foot ceiling. It was huge. Did you, were you there for the Halloween party? Me and my friend, Mike, during COVID rents were really cheap and we were able to, we were both working on, we both bought a car around there in New York and we wanted some space to work on our cars.
Speaker: and we rented this garage for super cheap during COVID because no one else was known at the point of COVID when rent like dropped significantly. Yeah. And we were working on cars in there and the ceilings were so high and the ceilings were, the ceiling was painted like a sky. And then there were skylights and it was really cool. We could do that same thing with this Shizuoka spot.
Speaker: Okay. Grand opening party. We've got to have the K cars under lit green, like fast and furious, Tokyo drift kind of style party. Yep. Shizuoka. Oh man. It's funny. We need 40K though. We're looking at this spot for a couple of different reasons. We had Rob Sheemak's illegal previously on a podcast, but one of our goals is
Speaker: We want to have the option to get a business manager visa, and one of the qualifications for business manager visa is you need to have a physical office. Rob had told us it actually needs to be an office, so it needs to have a
Speaker: sign out front. It needs to also have a separate office space so they make you like take photos, make it look like an office. This is a perfect candidate because I think the house and the warehouse are disconnected and we could very easily make like a co -working space or some kind of business for the shop front, right?
Speaker: Yeah, and the building even looks like it's an old Home Depot, basically. So we could, it's going to look like a commercial building on the outside and we can make it look, we can create an office somewhere in there as well. Yeah. His big thing was like.
Speaker: You can't try to trick them and turn your home into an office. You need to show either, there's no hard and fast rules, but you need to make it clear to them that it is an office and it's not just your house that you're calling an office. If you're trying to go for this business manager visa. So some things you can do, you're not limited to these things and you don't have to do these things, but some things you could do.
Speaker: is a separate building with a separate address type of thing. Or if it is in your home, maybe it's a little crazy, but like putting a wall up and having a separate entrance just for the office part, you need to really prove and take, cause you're going to have to submit pictures. So you have to really prove to them that this is a true physical office. You're not trying to trick them in any way. Yeah. It's going to be, what do we, all right. What's your top pick? If we get this multi -purpose spot, you know, just.
Speaker: Theoretically, what would you want to use that Home Depot -esque space for? The two, one, it's just a huge open space, which I think is very rare for Japanese homes. So even if we just went, so me and Tugget both Rick Rubin for a couple of different reasons, but so if anyone's seen Rick, I forget what magazine, but you can just Google Rick Rubin's Malibu home.
Speaker: Very minimal too. It looks like he just has white drywall up on his house, painted white kind of thing. Very open. Even if we just drywall up on insulate, put drywall up on the inside and then have the huge open space, open living space. Like that could even like, even if we didn't use it for projects, just like, that's right. That's rare in Japan to have that much space. True. That'd be sick. Actually. I'm calling. We get a big Turkish rug and couch and just leave it at that.
Speaker: Like I'm thinking about the hammam we went to in Istanbul, super big open space. Just like to have a huge open living space is cool. Super funny. You mentioned Rick Rubin. Like I just read Rick Rubin's book, Creative Act of Being. And I remember, Joe, you got to read this. And you're like, you ordered some like cheap copy of eBay.
Speaker: I had to throw that out. It was really weird. I threw it away? Dude, that was one of a kind. So it's someone, I don't know, it's someone on eBay that they're selling their own book, but they use basically the image that they put up. And this is why it tricked me. It's basically like a JPEG grainy version of Rick Rubin's actual book. So it's called the same thing. It's paperback, which should throw you off and cheap. I don't think Rick Rubin's book actually comes in paperback.
Speaker: But yeah, it started out. It's hard to explain. It made no sense. And then it started getting to like Nazi stuff and, you know, getting real racist. And I was like, what is going on here? And then it stopped making any sense at all. And it just it was like just random series of numbers and like latitude and longitude point. And I was like, I have this is the right way. That's really weird. Easter eggs in there. But anyways, we'll link the shizuka property. We don't know.
Speaker: I like how you call it Home Depot. I'm calling this place Shizuoka Home Depot. I don't know until we come up with a better name, but I don't know. Let's see. We're going to do some due diligence next couple of weeks. The agent actually was not going to let us do a Zoom tour. So we were sending Joey, potentially Joey's friend Lauren to go check it out. Yeah. Hopefully I make a, when I'm there in April. Yeah. I'd like to make a day trip down Shizuoka, check the spot out. I think that'd be fun.
Speaker: Keep, we'll post it. Feel free to look at it. Feel free to buy it. We can even maybe help you buy it, but it's, I'm not worried. I don't, this is a very unusual purchase for someone to want to buy, but I agree with you, Jerry. It's a pretty unique opportunity. Just get a huge warehouse and we can figure out what we do with it later. Yeah. I think it's really cool. You could do anything down there. You could have a ceramic studio. You could have multiple things down there. It's one 16th of a home Depot, maybe it's one 32nd of a home Depot.
Speaker: I forgot, we're calling and actually it's in a city called Matsuzaki. So I think the address is like three six threes. Joey's, what'd you name it, Joey? Three six Matsuzaki. Good ring to it. Three six mafia, but three six Matsuzaki. Okay. Three six Matsuzaki. Let's see how long this idea stays alive for, but I'm much more excited about it than the Sofia, Tokyo, Shinokubo spot.
Speaker: That's for sure. Yeah, me too. This one's cool. No train though, which is the only thing you need. Yeah. Got to be car. It's okay. It's okay. Beat. It's close to the beach. So I think it'll be fun. All right. Jay Lux updates. Last time we talked, our contractor had maybe faked an injury, but good news. He's back, right? Allegedly. He's back. Allegedly. No, filming confirmed.
Speaker: Okay. We should have Fumi. We're going to let me message Fumi later. We should have her go check it out, but how, I don't know, man. What do you think about the progress? When estimate June, when you're going to go down in April, you're going to check it out. Totally. I'm going to try to live there as best I can to in April. We'll see. Okay. I might be sleeping in the guests for, I don't know. We'll see. Oh yeah. We'll ask Fumi maybe to give us a heads up or I'll text him.
Speaker: Yeah. While we don't have updates with the construction, we do have updates on getting the Meepaku license. We were connected with a guy named Shun, who's down in Fukuoka. His company is smartin .com. They're basically working on the check -in instruction app process and they're a property management, I think, type company for Airbnb's. But the big service they're providing us is helping us get the Meepaku license.
Speaker: When you talk to this guy and he made it sound quite simple. It seems like his service brings you A to Z, like due diligence on checking the property to registration, which seems like it requires like a giose shoshi, a lot of paperwork, but we're more or less going to go with him. I think he's like, how much is he charging us? Like a thousand, two thousand, something like that.
Speaker: Kyose Shoshi is another type of Scrivener. That's what we learned. Administrative Scrivener. Yeah. Sorry, your question. Yeah. I think Shun is charging us to about 2000 US.
Speaker: Okay. We reached out to Shun initially for our Tokyo property actually, to be like, Hey, can we Airbnb this? And he was actually really good. He was just like, sounds like he has an in -house architect or something. He's specializing in working with foreigners to help them get their Airbnb, Minpaku license. Right.
Speaker: Yeah, he does. Everything sounds like in terms of like due diligence, you come, Hey, this is the property you're looking at or the property you own. And he's going to tell you what you need to do, which steps of the way, you know, document why, you know, if you've ever Googled how to meme Paku a property or meme Paku rules.
Speaker: It quickly gets out of hand and you're like this one, I have no idea anymore if this is even possible and what all this documents I need to get. So I'm really thinking that leaning on Shun here and he's just going to tell us what to do is our best move. Take our money Shun, take it all. We don't want anything to do with this. Yeah.
Speaker: One, one thing we did learn that would have been a deal breaker if we were, if you're thinking about doing an Airbnb and setting up yourself, you do need to have someone with what is called a meme pakukandi, right? There's a longer term for that, but it's basically a manager. Yeah. License. It's not super easy to get this is what it sounded like. Right.
Speaker: I don't know, like how could it be that like, so this is just someone I believe that like operates. This is like an operator of your Airbnb. So someone like in Japan, you need to submit, but every guest needs to submit passport photos, that kind of thing. So someone that can help collect that stuff, someone that knows how to use the Airbnb apps, they need to have a license to do that in Japan. And it's called like a Mimpaku Kani or like manager, maybe like a Mimpaku manager license.
Speaker: And so you need to have one of these people if you are operating an Airbnb. So whether it be a property management company that has it, in this case, I think Shun is allowing us to use his license and we operate it. We're not too clear on that, but he has, we have to pay him some fee. But yeah, again, if you're trying to Airbnb a spot, you need to have someone in order to register with their mean bakakandi. So that was, I don't know why we didn't realize that sooner.
Speaker: Yeah, that was new information for me. So most of the time these people, yeah, they take a percent, I think of either gross or actually in Tracy's case, she takes a percent of profit. But yeah, you're the, it seems unavoidable. If you're thinking about Airbnb in Japan, you're going to need to either get your own Mimpaka Kani license or find someone that has it. They operate your Airbnb and you pay them a small percentage of whatever you make.
Speaker: Let's see if the plot just keeps getting more and more complicated. And I know we set out, I don't know how a person who hasn't been to Japan figures this out, but hopefully we can figure this out. And if you're listening to this, you don't have to go through the same hoops that we are going through to figure this out. Yeah. Or at least like you're hearing about it early on. And so there's no surprises. Yep. Yep. But.
Speaker: Switching gears, we have some cool updates. We're working on two, we mentioned it before, we're working on some other ways to monetize AccuMart. We have a subscription. We're thinking about sun setting that at some point. So we've listened to what our customers want. A lot of people want us to help them like view the place or find more information. So for context, our listing pulls from a real estate site and then we're given whatever information they put on that site.
Speaker: Sometimes the photos are shitty. Sometimes there's one sentence. So if you're looking at AccuMart and you want more information on a property, we're piloting a project called AccuMart Research. Joy, tell us about AccuMart Research.
Speaker: Yeah, that's what you said. We're trying to listen to customers. A lot of people want our help buying the property. We're not quite there yet, but we're starting to think about getting into the transaction process a little bit. And one of the earliest steps is just getting more information about a property. Pictures aren't great. So what we're doing is we're working with, I think I mentioned him earlier in this podcast, but our friend Kushi, we went to school with Kushi. He's on the ground in Japan and he's helping us. So if someone.
Speaker: If you like a property a lot, but there's not great pictures, there's, you want to do a virtual viewing or you just want to know more about the property. What we can do is we ask Kushi to get in touch with the real estate agent and either ask for more pictures, video, or schedule a virtual walkthrough.
Speaker: It's would be difficult to do this on your own. When me and Take were in Japan, we tried to do it in person. And even that was difficult. And we had Fumi's help. We had Fumi there with us. But for us to try to do this by email or calling a Japanese real estate agent, I just see a low success rate there. So we're trying to offer that as a service. So if you see any listings.
Speaker: on Accumart that you want to pursue, but you're not ready to jump the gun with NTI and drop $4 ,000 to start the process, but you just want to know a little bit more about this property. That's the niche that we're hoping to fill in. Yeah. And just emphasizing what Joey said, like these real estate agents don't
Speaker: want to interact with foreigners. So if you're sending an email, we've sent emails to people who just doesn't, we don't get responses, even calling them. It really has to come from a Japanese number and requires leaving voicemails. So our friend Kushi or Yusuke, this is his first name, he's helping us hit the ground and dial these agents, coordinate type viewings. Specifically, yeah, we just did a Zoom tour, I think for our first happy pilot customer, we'll call him B.
Speaker: His situation was he was looking at a place in Ehime and I think one more in Shimane. We ended up finding out the Shimane property was farmland. So that was a no go. So at least that's good that we quickly eliminated one. The second one I believe he's going for. And it's honestly a freaking dope property. It has a view of the ocean. We actually did a video tour.
Speaker: So part of Akiyomart Research, we will try our very best to organize a video tour. It's not always possible. Some agents will say no, but we did a video tour. We saw the house. It was in killer condition. 18K Joey, I think it was how much it was for. B, our customer is really happy. I think he's proceeding with that and he didn't need to go. He didn't need to do too much. I think we were pretty fast on it and I think he's quite happy and he's going to hopefully get that property and invite us over to hang out sometime.
Speaker: I agree. Mr. B was very happy with the, with the virtual tour. He loved the property. So yeah, I agree. It does sound like he's going to pursue it. We should check in with him at some point. Yeah. So for a pricing perspective, we're playing around with it, but we think we're going to do around a hundred dollars for property. No, that sounds steep, but it really does require a lot of time. So our friend Yusuke is actually hitting the phone, calling, coordinating, going back and forth. And then in addition to that.
Speaker: We'll have ideally him, if not someone else on the Zoom call to translate to the Japanese real estate agent. We'll also record that and send it over. So it's, I think it's worth it. I would have paid for something like this to see our property and just get it done. Let us know if that is too high, but we do feel like it's actually quite a bit of work and totally worth it. If it means like canceling out a property or going for it with, for some more information.
Speaker: Yeah. And you just full transparency. Your, there are other options out there. Your other options would be to try to contact real estate agents directly. You can find that information on AccuMart. If you click through to the Realtors website, you can try your luck and try to contact them directly. We're trying to facilitate that process there, or you can get in touch with a service like NTI, but they do require a much higher upfront fee just before they'll do any work on your behalf. Those are your other options out there. Yeah.
Speaker: Totally. Totally. Plus one, Joey, we're building this kind of out of necessity almost in that like enough people have asked for it that we're, Hey, this is all the information we got. And it also, we've been stretched thin that we, we can't, we can't just do this for free for folks. So we do, we are just putting a little price tag on it. And if you're going to use us, trust us, I think you'll get good results. And if we don't end up getting a video tour, we're thinking about like refunding some amount of that. But yeah, this is just a pilot.
Speaker: Totally. Yeah. So if you're interested, hit us up. Mention we're calling it Akiyama research. Mention you're interested in Akiyama research and send us an email. Cool. Very last thing I think we should discuss is we've mentioned that Akiyama is moving more towards B2B. I'm excited to share. We have our first.
Speaker: maybe listing. We have gotten in touch with someone out in Shizuoka who is interested in having us list her property. It's a beautiful property and we're thankful that she's giving us a chance here. So we're going to go above and beyond. I think we're going to hire really freaking good photographer to do drone shots and apply a little bit.
Speaker: I think California and the US, like our real estate photography and like effort on marketing is a little higher than some of these places in Japan. So we're going to apply a little bit of that and see if we can really provide value for some of these folks who want to sell on AccuMart. Yeah. And so yeah, like as Taki mentioned, trying to expand it to B2B and hopefully some real estate agents will want to list with us. So using this as a little bit of a pilot project and we'll take great photo, we're hiring a photographer, take great photos.
Speaker: Put that up on IKEA Mart and then we can see how many people are viewing, liking, asking for more information through that. And then hopefully we'll get some metrics and that can help us pitch later on to real estate agents in the future saying, Hey, if you sponsor a listing with us, we can, you'll expect to get this many likes, this many leads, et cetera. Yeah. This is like how Airbnb started, right? Like they, they were taking photos of places and they had to send out a photographer and they, they're.
Speaker: We're basically trying to be like Airbnb. You'll see the listing once we get it. We're definitely going to make sure that we push it out for viewers. And if you know anyone that's interested, it is a really nice cabin in the woods. And I think pricing, we might need to work a little bit on that, but we're giving it a shot. We don't know what we're doing, but pray for us, please.
Speaker: Yeah, this is a test project for us too. This is just one property. Um, and yeah, we're just trying to see if the flow works, see if they get some attention. Yeah.
Speaker: All right, man. I feel like, whoa, it's every one of these deer diary series. I feel like a lot has happened. It's exciting from the last one till within the last week, we hear all of a sudden going to go to Japan. So thanks for taking one for the team and headed out to the next, you got to come to the next J rep conference. I'll get the next J rep conference, but I'll make the shirts. I think we're also hosting an offsite number two. You're coming through maybe Santa Cruz again at the end of the month, right? Uh, yeah, for a few days, hopefully right before I go to Japan. Okay.
Speaker: Let's talk about maybe we should that there's so many people in Tokyo. We want to see, but I think this one J rep conference again, I'll put in the show notes. You definitely recommend. I think it really got our brains thinking about this space. And it seems like we are on a riding the momentum. We've had so many people reach out to us. This is a hot topic and hopefully, yeah.
Speaker: You can also dial into the J -Rep conference. So you don't have to be there in person. There's like e -tickets where you can, basically you get the zoom link to the conference too. So if you're interested in the space, definitely check it out. We'll be talking, Emil will be talking about mortgages. I'm sure getting a loan in Japan. Tracy will be talking about Airbnb stuff. A lot of, also a lot about investing in these properties in Japan and getting a return. So if you're interested in any of those things.
Speaker: Anton with renovating in Akiya, Blanco is going to be talking about renovation. So a lot of interesting topics. If you can't make it to Tokyo, you can watch online. Also, you forgot Akiya Mart icebreaker quiz. It's going to be huge. It's going to be huge. Akiya Mart icebreaker quiz. Start thinking about where people think it's the rainiest or the, or the snowiest in Japan. Yes, sir. All right. Cool, man. I'll catch you later. All right. See you.
