Why There Are So Many Abandoned Homes In Japan - Can I Buy One? 

Interesting subject, I have watch a few videos on people buying abandoned homes and renovating it but never saw how they got it.

Also there may not be only 1 owner of the land. In our past experience we owned a house, inherited from my hubby’s mom, with land being owned by 11 different people and 1 part was owned by 1 person but the rest of the land was owned by the other 10. Even when we wanted to add on to the house, which we paid for the add on and was not inherited, we had to get permission from all the land owners, they have to all agree, which we did get thank God! Then when we sold the house we had to get permission from the land owners do so and they had to have approval over who could purchase the house too. We lost $40,000 dollars out of the $100,000 we sold the house for due to crazy realtor laws. It really is difficult I totally agree.

I'm from Philippines and I'm going to humbly tell you that our big concrete house and Land only costs not exceeding $50k!

That was really insightful. Nevertheless I hope that some of those mid-century modern Okinawa homes will be preserved...

Do they have any problems with squatters moving into abandoned buildings.

Very interesting. You can live somewhere for years and have no equity. Can landowners evict homeowners? If homeowners can't find their land owner, who are they paying?

Good subject. Most videos on this subject gloss over the finding the owner part. Maybe because it’s traumatizing in how difficult it is. And also tedious to make a video about asking other people if they know who lived at “that house”. Probably makes Murder she wrote seem as exciting as MMA in person. 😱