{"id":2913,"date":"2008-04-07T10:57:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T17:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2008-04-07T10:57:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T17:57:42","slug":"who-knew-it-turns-out-condotels-stink-as-a-real-estate-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2913\/who-knew-it-turns-out-condotels-stink-as-a-real-estate-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Who knew? It turns out condotels stink as a real estate investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hey, pal, let&#8217;s make a deal. You can be in the taxi business just like that! Here&#8217;s how. You buy my cab, see? You own it, pay the note on it, handle the maintenance, all that stuff. But you won&#8217;t have to work all those crazy hours <em>driving<\/em> the cab, see? I&#8217;ll drive it <em>for<\/em> you, and we&#8217;ll split the meter. How can you lose?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or, to put an even funnier spin on it: What, would you suppose, is an even stupider real estate &#8220;investment&#8221; than a time share?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB120735504829291471.html?mod=blog\" target=\"_blank\">The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> has all the answers&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/investment\" rel=\"tag\">investment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hey, pal, let&#8217;s make a deal. You can be in the taxi business just like that! Here&#8217;s how. You buy my cab, see? You own it, pay the note on it, handle the maintenance, all that stuff. But you won&#8217;t have to work all those crazy hours driving the cab, see? I&#8217;ll drive it for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-investment","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1143,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1143\/the-carnival-of-real-estate-investing\/","url_meta":{"origin":2913,"position":0},"title":"The Carnival of Real Estate Investing&#8230;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"...is up at RE Agent in Connecticut. 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Russell Shaw came in second place with his not-at-all-playful rant on the folly of real estate discounting. The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog Carnivals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog Carnivals","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blog-carnivals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1221,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1221\/the-carnival-of-real-estate-26\/","url_meta":{"origin":2913,"position":2},"title":"The Carnival of Real Estate . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"...is at miOaklandCounty, Maureen Francis' weblog. Teri Lussier's introductory post came in fifth place,* not bad for a start. 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