In particular, if you want to understand why someone would opt for paying more daily rather than less monthly, the big non-obvious factors are a) landlords have a very particular set of requirements regarding social status to be allowed to rent in a building (gradually loosening) and b) a few institutions like key-money balloon the upfront payment required to move into an apartment.
When we moved to Tokyo, my wire to the new apartment's management company (introduction fee, key money, deposit, first month's rent, insurance, guarantor fee) was, well, call it 50% of a young salaryman's take home pay for a year.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=551794
In particular, if you want to understand why someone would opt for paying more daily rather than less monthly, the big non-obvious factors are a) landlords have a very particular set of requirements regarding social status to be allowed to rent in a building (gradually loosening) and b) a few institutions like key-money balloon the upfront payment required to move into an apartment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552175
When we moved to Tokyo, my wire to the new apartment's management company (introduction fee, key money, deposit, first month's rent, insurance, guarantor fee) was, well, call it 50% of a young salaryman's take home pay for a year.