Can you Japanes(z)e?

It is a Saturday.
And I am being tested.
Or...more like...you try to look for accommodation in Japan!! Do you really need to pay thousands of moneyz for internationally recognized proficiency tests? I have come to believe that once you manage to do all this, you know, the job, the house, the moving, all by yourself you should be eligible to pass at least the, I don`t know, Japanese survival proficiency test? Not there yet, not there just as yet...humphr for now.
So as it goes, somehow so far, I have managed to understand that I am supposed to meet the guy at one of the estate agencies at whenever on Sunday next week, in Chikusa-ku, opposite Mr Doughnut (a good opportunity to show my healthy-skin-and-intestines-and-general-
lifestyle diet the finger) and that if I want to live in a tall red マンション (mansion) I have to call at the beginning of August. And, yes, the other guy who just threw all this Japanese at me and expected me to understand. What`s that all about? However, he does have my name and my phone number and has just called to say that if I want to move into that room as well as paying my 41000 Yen for rent I would have to pay another 70000 Yen upfront so they can repair the room for me (???). The final sum was 150000 Yen or so, why it has become this amount I failed to understand however I managed not to get myself tricked by a wicked salesman of today`s tricky capitalistic world and thus I guess something must be working.
Nevertheless, at times like this, I would be willing to pay as much as 1000 yen for a Babel fish.