Hitting The Real Estate Web Sites
Miami Downtown condo under construction. Photo ©Howard Dratch, 2007.
It is not a new game but for those of us contemplating large moves and great life changes, surfing real estate and rental sites has become almost as much fun as Iron Chef competitions and watching mediocre movies for the 100th time. Today I ended up corresponding with a rental agent for the Design and Cultural Districts, Downtown Miami and the Brickell area with its condo complexes and high-rises that have tempted me with their urban amenities (not with their horribly high prices).
Monday I return to my comfortable home in Mexico and, for all its evil memories, it is home, mine, beautiful and comfortable. I am simultaneously anxious to get home and relax and depressed at leaving my own country for all its current problems. However, the house must be sold and I have become entranced or mesmerized by the discipline of investing in order to raise my income enough to survive these life- and financial-changes. Every morning has me hypnotized by screens of numbers and letters, bar charts and "candlestick" graphs. The rest of the time spent with annual reports, financial reports, prices per share, earnings per share, dividend yields and the discussions and analysis of "analysts" and experts. The experts and analysts are fun, take themselves seriously and are taken seriously and often spew nonsense, good sense or mass hysteria depending on the day.
Another area might have been another choice to live since the stock and bond markets are now accessible by Internet from anywhere-ville. My problem is that Florida is close to sea level (to make my heart happy) and its medical community has kept me alive far longer than ever expected. It has good things to say for it (and some negative). I was also checking out Arizona luxury real estate for fun. There is always the wanderlust to consider some place new and different. The desert tempts now that I have changed from distance, open-water swimming to lap pools. At my age and after the violence that came from swimming in open water, a pool seems like the proper kind of swimming.
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Monday I return to my comfortable home in Mexico and, for all its evil memories, it is home, mine, beautiful and comfortable. I am simultaneously anxious to get home and relax and depressed at leaving my own country for all its current problems. However, the house must be sold and I have become entranced or mesmerized by the discipline of investing in order to raise my income enough to survive these life- and financial-changes. Every morning has me hypnotized by screens of numbers and letters, bar charts and "candlestick" graphs. The rest of the time spent with annual reports, financial reports, prices per share, earnings per share, dividend yields and the discussions and analysis of "analysts" and experts. The experts and analysts are fun, take themselves seriously and are taken seriously and often spew nonsense, good sense or mass hysteria depending on the day.
Another area might have been another choice to live since the stock and bond markets are now accessible by Internet from anywhere-ville. My problem is that Florida is close to sea level (to make my heart happy) and its medical community has kept me alive far longer than ever expected. It has good things to say for it (and some negative). I was also checking out Arizona luxury real estate for fun. There is always the wanderlust to consider some place new and different. The desert tempts now that I have changed from distance, open-water swimming to lap pools. At my age and after the violence that came from swimming in open water, a pool seems like the proper kind of swimming.
Technorati Tags: Real Estate, Miami, Condos, Apartments, Arizona, Luxury Homes, Florida, Stock Market, Stocks, Bond Market, Investing
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