kuri wrote:
> "¥$(D????(B¼¥$(D??(B" <hohan0len@netscape.net> wrote in message
>
> > Is it standard procedure for real estate to ask for guarantor?
>
> That used to be. Now in Osaka, most agencies accept that you take an
> insurance instead of a guarantor.In fact, they prefer as they are sure
> insurances will cover automatically if you fail to pay, while guarantors are
> not always as sekinin as they should and realtors don't ask spending time
> trying to get the money back.

Not around here they don't. Every agency I went to between October last
year and confirming the new declan manor required a guarantor. Do the
insurers require a guarantor?