New Units available at Hyde Park Condo

So let's get back to what really matters: available units at Hyde Park, how much they cost, and maybe (if there is time), how to come up with ideas on how to pay for one. (Just saw the movie '21' about clever students from M I T who spent their weekends on trips to Las Vegas, where they put their math skills to good use by counting cards at Casinos. I've ruled that out: a) gambling is immoral; b) the students in the movie were beaten up by the Mob, and in real life the students were prosecuted and went to prison. There is a third element: I can't even shuffle a deck of cards, do you think I could actually 'count' cards in a game of blackjack?

On to business: Listing AR7145655 is a THREE BEDROOM UNIT, listed at $475,000, as part of an estate sale. ($261 per square foot). Nice pics are listed at 'Trulia.com' This listing is for vacant apartment , no furnishings. Problem: 'estate sale' means someone died. If someone died -- as in, 'in the unit,' then I don't want it. This is not because I believe in ghosts. However why take any chances.

Listing AR 7214525, Hyde Park Unit #706, a two-bedroom corner unit, 1,077 total square feet, listed at $375,000. That would be $318 per square foot. The previous sale price for this apartment was $340,000 in November 2007.

And Now There is Haiti

Continuing on in the generally negative vein as in the last post, written in August 2009, let's take notice how 'disaster coverage' takes off on a life of its own. It can push everything else off of the air, off of the front page of every U.S. newspaper. Here in SoFLa, the Haiti story also engendered separate sections of color disaster photos.

Haiti is not part of the United States. If this tragedy had occurred in Guinea-Bissau, or in Kenya, Somalia, Zagreb or Vanuatu, it would be just as big a tragedy, but it wouldn't get 24/7 saturation coverage.

Fact: Haiti is 900 miles away from the U.S. Haiti is part of the island of Hispaniola, and adjoins the Spanish-speaking nation, the Dominican Republic. Haiti is Creole-speaking, and being mindful of that, the Dominican Republic guards is borders with soldiers armed with rifles and bayonets. The Dominicans may be concerned with the tragedy in Haiti, but they are not using this as a reason to permit a mass migration of Creole-speaking Haitians into the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic.