Friday, June 3, 2011

Money Pit Dwelling

I thought buying a condo and paying assessments was a get-out-of-never-ending-construction-renovation-marathon free card. I was wrong.

Last set of tenants moved into a sparkly new building, resided in it maintenance free, sold at premium prices and moved on. My neighbors and I got stuck with paying the bills: crumbling balconies, leaking walls, crummy air conditioner and no money reserves to deal with any of it.

Call it Soviet residue but I it makes me mad that it is OK to have no sense of social responsibility at all. Here is the no-shit: The fulfillment of short term personal interests leads to very bad consequences. We are silly people.

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