Renewal

Received some great news in our mail today! Our rental renewal letter from our landlady. She says she's not going to increase the rent come October, and to celebrate living in her apartment for 2 years, we get to pay her a gift! Another one month's key money (reikin) - only 85,000 yen ($A1000)! "Reikin" loosely translates as "thank you" money. Yes! Thank you! Thank you for charging us more money for being good tenants!

We shouldn't complain (said between gritted teeth), I mean, we're lucky we live in a decent (if small) place, in a convenient area and our landlady is a lovely old duck (and rich! wonder why...) but we coughed up 5 months rent at the start dammit! Enough already!