細嚼買房

自住房啊，要擱心裏；

投資房呢，全放腦子裏。

推敲推敲，是否在理？

I have learnt that from a female R.E. investor who was busy selling her own luxury home back in 2006. 那個瘋狂的年代！She was selling! 毅然決然！ 能人啊！

那天，大雨傾盆，她open house, 一整天，可能就俺一人來看房，見著俺，高興地就把俺拉進大廳，坐下開侃投資經。 俺仔細打量著眼前的婦人，怎麽看怎麽富態。 再把房子看個究竟，房前房後，屋裏屋外，處處溫馨。 可見主人花了不少心血。談話中，了解到，早年她從伊朗移民來美。 俺不禁怯怯地問： 舍得賣嗎？ 她環視了一下整個屋，意味深長地說： “I am trying, trying very hard...to move my home from my heart to my head".

I kept nodding but speechless...

時過境遷，婦人的話至今回味無窮， 讓俺不禁想起Jonathan Swift的著名格言：

“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”

Let’s Keep money in its place.