One of the big business opportunities in America and around the world is real estate ... as someone once urged, "Buy land, because the Good Lord ain't makin' it any more." Everyone dreams of his (or her) own plot of land on which to raise crops, build a house, plant trees, hang a hammock, or dig for gold. Fortunes are made and lost in real estate, as prices for prime properties are driven through the roof by their desirability and limited availability ... location, location, location, as the real estate professionals and mortgage brokers are fond of saying as they pump zeroes onto the left side of the decimal point on your closing documents.
Real estate agents, like most other professionals, tend to specialize. Some deal exclusively in residential properties, commercial properties, or undeveloped land. Some work only with top-of-the-line properties - the spectacular, multi-million dollar properties coveted by celebrities and the ostentatiously wealthy. And there are agents who deal only in international properties (click to supersize) ...
Bilbo
Sad. Everyone has pretty well written off the Crimea as a done deal. I think those Baltic Republics should worry that they might be next.
ReplyDeleteWill we read someday about Adolf Hitler's energetic land acquisitions policy in the 1930's and 1940's? Has euphemism gone so far?
ReplyDeleteThe world has more or less regarded the Crimea as a done deal.
ReplyDeleteBut didn't "we" do the same to Native Americans?
ReplyDeleteNone the less it all sucks