House sitting ----sooo up market. Hope more of it in future --have you and how...

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njss

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...luxurious was it or different ? this is the second time I have lived in such style. The first time at a builder's house----he was bankrupt but had divorced and it was the wife's. Own lake with dingy and a soccer oval and tennis courts and indoor pool. She was also having financial troubles the cleaners and gardener came only once a week !
remembered also house sitting ----actually it was phone sitting for a funeral director nice house but just ordinary not over- the- top...lucky no one rang I would have been tougue tied as we did not even have a phone at home !
how do these opportunities--- just come up luck I guess . I was a princess not by birth but treatment ---at least my father thought so and he is still looking after me. I was once offered to test out a brand new sports car for a weekend. I was driving an old ute about 20 years old so the 4 wheel steering and open roof top out of this world and my sons' thought so too. It has to be luck unfortunately I use it up so none left for the lotteries----I guess I have to buy a ticket eventually.....
 
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crowbird_52

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Worked for a housesitting firm about fifteen years ago. My first assignment was in Laguna Beach, California. A beautiful home right on the seaside in Crescent Bay with an absolutely unbelievable view of the ocean below. Patio dining every night before sunset, experimenting with gourmet cooking in the huge, well-equipped and well stocked kitchen, long walks along the paths which led to town (I could see why Laguna inspires so many artists), playing with the dogs, talking to the parrot, hearing the waves crash against the rocks at night and being lulled to sleep that way etc. etc. etc. And the assignment was for...28 days! The best, most unforgettable month I ever spent.
P.S. Had the chance to go back to the same house for just a couple days about a half year later, but pouring rain this time. Still and all, I would rather have been there than anywhere else during the rain. Stayed in and read lots of books.
 
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MeGusterM

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As human kinds are getting more materialistic and more greedy each day, many smart investors, particularly those in real estate and stock market shares are having the greed intent of escalating the market prices of almost everything. We can see that many houses are being vaccant and many are homeless in our society. You are just a lucky one by chance to have a house sitting job in the luxurious one. I think the vanity of human nature is tending to live beyond means reflecting by the builder and his ex. It could be a hoarx of making the debtors believe that they both are being really bankrupt then need not to pay their debts. I am living in the international capital of scams of real estate and stock market share transactions by my own preception to understand this. Many squatters in Hong Kong are sneaking into the emptied old flats to live down there with no water, electricity, cold in winter and hot in summer. That's the life of Hong Kong: many vacant flats are unoccuppied and too many homeless. Once a squatter in Vancouver, British Columbia, sneaked into a vaccant housing worthed millions of Canadian dollars and owned by a Hong Kong real estate developer, a billionair. You can see how to compare and contrast the rich and the poor in US, Canada and Hong Kong.
All those investors just wanted to prop up the real estate values up to ten or one hundred times as it really valued.
I think to keep our stable life style, it is necessary to control the real estate and stock market shares transactions. Hong Kong has the worst poor and rich gap in this world with the ginni coefficient of 0.55 which is too far away from the norm of 0.3. There are only less than 2,000 Hong Kong citizens are paying annual taxes from 10k to ten million plus, close to 200,000 are paying income taxes ranging from $1 to $1000 last year. Hong Kong has a total population of 7 millions.
 
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