Why we chose foreverKey moment55:51 in the full recording
“A second home. For me, that's the attraction”
Why she wants families who'll keep it, not flip it.
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- MichelleThe way that you refer to a second home, for me, that's the attraction. You don't want someone
- that's just going to, okay, I'm going to buy this for two years, and then I'm going to make lots of
- money out of it. It's not that sort of journey. But I think, you know,
- there's plenty of families that love Japanese culture, love Japanese people, and, you know,
- Hokkaido might not be for them, but other areas would. And then there's plenty of snow families
- too, that once they've snowboarded in Japan, and then you come back
- here, it's like, it's just not as good. If they're serious, then this is a way that they can,
- you know, do both. And it's perfect, because in summer we go over to Japan and snowboard
- the whole time. So it works out really well with our seasons and differences as well.
Transcribed from the recording. Lightly punctuated for reading.
Asked what drew her to JapanoMa, Michelle named the framing: a second home, not an investment. She does not want to see people who buy a house to make money on it for two years and move on. That is not the journey.
She thinks of two kinds of families it suits. Families who love Japanese culture and Japanese people, for whom Hokkaido may not be the place but another area would be. And snow families who, once they have ridden in Japan, find the slopes at home are not as good. For them it is a way to do both, and the seasons line up: an Australian summer is a Hokkaido winter.
The way that you refer to a second home, for me, that's the attraction.
What this may mean for you
A second home can have financial logic without being primarily an investment. The first question is what kind of life you want the home to support.
What are you really buying for?Michelle’s experience, told in her words. Not a cost promise, legal advice or a general claim about risk.