A few years ago a gentleman informed me that, “Greeks don’t sell houses. They buy them!”
This took my mind back some four decades to when we owned a home on a cliff, that overlooked the ocean, in a somewhat remote town. Instead of getting in tenants to rent the property and use our collateral in that home, to buy another property in another area where there was greater employment, we chose to sit out the year and a half that it took to sell, as we wanted to remain free from debt; in order that we might resume our real passion, which was to continue our travels.
A retired doctor walked into that house and, within seconds, announced that he was going to purchase it – as it turned out for $110,000.
That same property today would fetch around six million dollars!
Mind you! Tiki and I still own a home and it’s in an area that we really love! Besides, we’ve set foot in forty different countries and four different territories or dependencies. A number, more than once.