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Old 06-05-2023, 11:37 AM
 
Location: Jerusalem (RI) & Chaseburg (WI)
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It's discretionary spending to improve your quality of life. Just like any home purchase. Depending on your wealth and income, the amount may be smaller or larger but it's still discretionary spending. If you're trying to optimize for creating wealth, you live in a cardboard box and invest the difference in the market.
Definitely not doing this as an investment. The new place is unlikely to be worth the cost of all the work done plus the purchase price.

If you want to invest in RE, you're not buying a house, you're buying or investing in multi unit buildings, probably through a REIT.
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Old 06-05-2023, 11:40 AM
 
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It's just interesting to see where these big wigs are planting down their money. Anywhere on the beach is nice, but Harwich is just a curious place to spend all that money. I'd think a guy like that would want to be on Nantucket or Chatham, Osterville...Harwich is gentrifying I guess lol. It's guys like this that drive up the housing costs making it more expensive for anyone who may have been trying to buy a cape house. Oh well for them.
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Old 06-05-2023, 11:42 AM
 
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What do you think it is then?
It's already been said many times in this thread. People have money and spent it on what they want. Not everythig has to make sense financially, otherwise we'd all be driving 15 year old Corollas.
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Old 06-05-2023, 11:45 AM
 
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https://www.redfin.com/MA/Lexington/...home/138458921

How about this detached condo that's only 750 sqft. Course since it's in Lexington they still want 650k (+$560 CF). 20% down and you are still over 4k/month.
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Old 06-05-2023, 11:47 AM
 
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It's already been said many times in this thread. People have money and spent it on what they want. Not everythig has to make sense financially, otherwise we'd all be driving 15 year old Corollas.
you dont have to answer everything...I was specifically inquiring what someone else thought it was in terms of it no longer being an investment at these prices.
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Old 06-05-2023, 11:51 AM
 
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you dont have to answer everything...I was specifically inquiring what someone else thought it was in terms of it no longer being an investment at these prices.
Huh? If you don't want a question answered then don't ask? If you only want a specific person to answer then say so.
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Old 06-05-2023, 11:53 AM
 
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What do you think it is then?
I define investing as someone having the intent to make a profit, a monetary return on investment. Maybe this person will make money in the end but that is likely not the goal. It is a lifestyle purchase.

If the other poster is correct and the buyer is the CEO of Waste Management, a quick Google search tells me his total compensation in 2019, 2020, and 2021 was $11M, $12M, and $13M.

Think of him buying this house like if you were to buy a really really nice car. You wouldn't view this car purchase as an investment. It's just freaking nice to have.
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Old 06-05-2023, 11:53 AM
 
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https://www.redfin.com/MA/Lexington/...home/138458921

How about this detached condo that's only 750 sqft. Course since it's in Lexington they still want 650k (+$560 CF). 20% down and you are still over 4k/month.
What's the difference between a SFH and detached condo?
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Old 06-05-2023, 12:01 PM
 
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Nice to have but the cape isn't that enjoyable in the winter. I guess he has others homes to be at during that time...and he can enjoy the crowds/traffic just like everyone else in the summer.
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Old 06-05-2023, 12:17 PM
 
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Did some digging and Jim Fish's company is based in Dallas TX and this was his previous home (one of them anyways)

https://www.redfin.com/TX/Houston/82.../home/30013136

I guess he needs to get out of that TX heat. He seems to have no ties to MA and is a west coast guy for the most part. Just interesting to me that of all the places in the US (or even the world) he chose to invest about 10k into Harwich, MA.
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