I was sitting in the jury waiting room waiting my time to serve my public duty, when I came across an article in a magazine, \”Why Vacations Sales is the best option for Mortgage Brokers\”. Now normally I might have passed this article by, except that I was a captive audience at the time.
It was describing how a mortgage broker can make money by selling private resort vacations instead of selling the property outright. The overall idea was to sell a piece not as a wall or a garage, but to sell you a piece of the condo for a week or two every year. It is affordable for many people, because the all cost is divided between the people that are using the condo.
Housing is so expensive, especially for the choice vacation spots, this made sense to me. I started to think back to a vacation we had taken to Hawaii in the 1980as. We heard an hour sales pitch in exchange for a pair of free tickets to a dinner show.
A man strutted back and forth in front of about fifty people crowded into a hotel conference room. The presentation included a slide show of a well furnished condo on the beach. Before I could remember all the details, my name was called and I had to go up to sign in for jury duty.
As I was coming near my chair I noticed that my magazine is gone and I asked the man sitting next to me if he might has seen it opened on a page with article for vacations. I saw it under the chair and after I took it I showed to the man and said \” Why Vacations Sales is the best option for Mortgage Brokers\”.
\”Ha\” he said.\”I can’t believe it. I had this conversation with my wife. She wants me to buy a resort in Hawaii because she hear from her sister who is a mortgage brokwr that some people are selling their share\”.
He and I went on to share our experiences with vacations on beaches from Florida to Maine and from Canada to Mexico. One thing is for sure, neither of us would have bought a home on the beaches where we stayed. Not that we would not have loved to have done so, but the cost of owning a ocean front home is beyond the reach of working people like us.
I always asked myself if he bought the condo in Hawaii, but if he didn’t someone sure did. Every working man is dreaming of having it’s own resort vacation. That would be the end of paying too expensive prices in hotels and finally have your own vacation with your own furnish and everything that is inside the condo.
