Joel & Kelly Kaylor

Thu 14 May 2009

We are moving to Osaka this weekend!

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Sun 3 May 2009

We Found a House in Osaka!

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We found a house last week in Osaka!!!! It has everything we need, great location, rent is lower than the going rate plus two parking spots!! We are set to drive/move down on May 18

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Even though we had no potential houses Kelly and I felt that we needed to go down to Osaka in faith and “take possession” of “our land”. So Kelly, Sophia and I took the bullet train down for 3 days. Here are some photos of the house that we reserved and are currently in negotiations to finalize the pricing with the owners. The lady in the realtor office was there by herself. She closed up shop and took us to see it. Within 30min we went from “giving up” finding a house heading to the bullet train to come home to walking through this house and staying a whole extra day. This house became available at the end of the day on Wed right at the time when we basically gave up. There are so many things about the house that has what we all wanted/needed. The list is long, but for starters it has a room specifically designed to be an office (my office!!) and a kitchen with lots of counter space, cupboards, stove with 4 burners and an……….OVEN! I am happy that Kelly is happy and Kelly is happy that I am happy. Oh yeah, we can also park two cars. For those that know how crowded Osaka is, this is an amazing deal. (for what its worth if I were to rent a two parking spots in this neighborhood it would cost me $300-$400 a month).

We are in negotiations with the owner regarding the Rent and the Reikin (The money that goes to the owner which is a “thank you for letting me live in your house” money. For our house it is actually cheap at $4500 and hopefully it will go down a bit). The house is 100meters outside of the elementary school district that we wanted our kids to be in because of the returnee program they have for foreigners and Japanese who can’t speak Japanese well. This means that our kids technically are not allowed to attend this particular school. I called the school while we were there to see if they can make an exception and within a few hours I was in the principal’s office along with one of the board members on the Toyonaka city’s board of education. That in it’s self is amazing. The board needs to approve if my kids can attend this school. Both of them really want us to be a part of the school, but they were quite sure that it would not be approved. We are praying that it will be approved, but if it is not approved, we just so happened to be a school district that is one of the best schools in the city as well as a brand new school facilities. So, either way the kids will be in a good school. It is totally in God’s realm now. Please pray with us that God’s favor will continue to be on everyone regarding this house and God’s will be done in regards to what school the kids will be going to.

One more thing. my Dad prayed for our house situation and prayed Joshua 1:10, 11 on Monday before I took them to the airport.

Joshua then commanded the leaders of Israel, “Go through the camp and tell the people to get their provisions ready. In three days you will cross the Jordan River and take possession of the land the Lord your God has given you.”

3 days after his prayer it was literally answered-we found a house.

It is not officially finalized, but we are moving forward to finalize the rental contract–renting houses in Japan is like buying houses in the states. it is much more complicated than renting in the States.

Sun 26 Apr 2009

Photos from this weekend

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We had a wonderful weekend. Here are some links to the photos we took:

Sophia’s Baby Dedication with my parents (Grandpa and Grandma Kaylor)

Elisa’s 11th Birthday