Re: Meg Munn chunters on...


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>Mark wrote:
> A friend of mine from Switzerland said years ago in her
> Sweiss accent: "American women are ambisssious!"

And my brother married a woman imported from the Ukraine who claimed,
"Russian men are not ambitious enough." She had divorced her non-ambitious
man, left him behind, came to Canada and began to establish an ambitious
life for herself. She judged my brother ambitious enough and married him.

Within a mere 4 years, these two have bought up several older houses which
my brother renovated. There are upper and lower suites in these houses.
All suites are rented out to cover the costs of the mortgages, the property
taxes, the costs of renovations *plus* they have extra as profit to show for
these suites. It is now the *renters* paying their landlord's and
landlady's mortgages. It's not costing my brother and sis-in-law a dime.
The two are both working at good paying jobs. They also have high return
investment portfolios. They're in the money! ;-)

And guess what? My brother did not even bother to leave the country to find
a foreign wife. *She* immigrated on her own. She dismissed Canadian born
men as, "Immature and irresponsible play-boys." She was pleased to discover
my brother was that German born and raised ambitious import!

I think my brother played it rather smart. He waited for an ambitious woman
to snap him up and make something even greater out of him. She had noticed
that he's no lazy lay-about, but someone who was willing to put in an effort
to actually move ahead in life. She also noticed he had practical skills
which are a huge money saver if and when one wants to get into the real
estate market. With her financial and business savvy and his practical
skills, it turned out to be a winning combo! ;-)

Btw, Mark, do you even know how to skrew in a light bulb?


> It's somewhat more difficult to marry a foreigner locally. :-)

Not really. You could have married an immigrant and saved yourself those
thousands of dollars travelling back and forth to a foreign country.
Imagine how much bigger your Janus account would have been by now! ;-)


> FYI: I plan to send any children I have to a foreign school
> where they get a great accent and education for a fraction
> of the price of U.S. public institutions.

Ya right...abandon the kids oversees into the care of foreigners. Do you
even know what happens in those residential private schools? I certainly
wouldn't abuse my kids in that manner.


> I was also thinking about this last week when my wife noticed
> some moisture damage on our ceiling because of a leaky A/C.
> If we were homeowners, we'd be paying about 2 grand to take
> care of it. Instead, I just called the landlady that exploits
> us. Life is good...

Mark, that rent covers the cost of the landlady's property taxes,
maintenance and mortgage payments. She gets to decide how much profit she
wants to make off her rental units. If she thought she could get away with
charging higher rent, she would be doing so. And if all too many A/C units
break down, she'll up the rent.

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> Sure. But homeowners face similar problems. In fact, my
> wife and I often see houses around our unit hit by the
> storm with trees falling on roofs and fires.

This is why *location* is also important. I chose not to buy in a hurricane
prone area, nor a flood plain, nor in tornado alley. Nor did I buy below
sea-level. As for earthquakes, I'm in such a zone. However, by moving away
from Richmond, which would experience liquifaction that would allow houses
to sink into the sea, I moved up to higher ground and built on solid
bedrock. I also avoided steep hillsides. Don't need a landslide coming
down on me. ;-)

Heidi


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