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What It Is

家主ダイレクト is a rent guarantee and rent collection agency service offered by 株式会社Casa for landlords in Japan. It is not a general-purpose payment gateway, but a service designed around rental property cash flow and risk control: rent is debited from the tenant’s account, Casa remits funds to the property owner, and also handles late-payment responses, partial cost guarantees, and tenant support.

Core Capabilities

The service emphasizes “full payment by the end of the previous month,” meaning that, in principle, the full rent amount is remitted to the owner at the end of the previous month regardless of whether the tenant has insufficient funds or falls into arrears. If financial institutions are closed, payment is postponed to the next business day. The guarantee scope covers not only rent, but also renewal fees, move-out restoration costs, early termination penalties, utilities, and legal procedure costs related to property surrender. The page also shows that lonely death insurance is automatically included, covering incident response, rent loss, restoration, and costs for shortening vacancy periods. In addition, the service combines household property insurance and provides 24-hour tenant chat support, telephone consultation, and emergency on-site response.

Pricing and Fees

Owner WEB registration is free for property owners, and the page clearly states that there is no monthly usage fee and that the owner’s burden is 0 yen. For residential use, the initial guarantee fee paid by the tenant is 50% of rent and related charges, while the annual guarantee consignment fee must be checked in the downloadable materials. For business use, the initial guarantee fee is 80% of the total rent and related charges, and the annual guarantee consignment fee is 10% of rent and related charges. Overall, the service is friendly to landlords in terms of direct cash costs, but the full fee table is not completely disclosed in the main text.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths lie in strong cash-flow certainty and the bundling of rent collection, guarantees, lonely death insurance, household property insurance, and first-line tenant response, making it especially suitable for self-managing landlords. It can be used for a single room, detached houses, and existing tenants, and is available nationwide. Limitations include the fact that tenants already in arrears cannot be accepted, lonely death insurance cannot be purchased separately, and there is no disclosure of financial licenses, APIs, or external system integration capabilities.

Who It’s For and Access from China

This service is suitable for individual landlords who own rental housing or business-use properties in Japan and want to reduce late-payment risk and management workload. It is not suitable as a cross-border acquiring, merchant payment, or wallet payment solution. The main text does not provide information on access from mainland China, so the status is unknown.