Newsgroups: misc.invest.real-estate
Subject: Re: Lauderdale Insights?
From: "Steve Horrillo" 
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 05:15:41 GMT


On  4-Jan-2006, "Don"  wrote:

> > uh, condos are appreciating faster, some of us like to live in our
> > "investments" and condos are easier to determine the actual cost of
> > ownership (and they won't get blown down in a hurricane).
>
> A novel by John McDonald, entitled "Condominium", written around 1975,
> described how Florida high rise condos disintegrating in a hurricane and
> lots of people swept out to sea.

High rise condos on the ocean are built into the reef/bedrock that is
beneath the sand. They'll never disintegrate or fall over, but because the
walls are gypsum and poster board, they will get gutted leaving only the
frame.

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