Buy one home, get one free: US agents try to beat property slump
The Escondido-based company says it will throw in a free four-bedroom home worth $400,000 (£200,000) for buyers of one of its luxury detached houses, which cost from $1.6 million (£800,00).
Bummer. It is not an item of equal value. It is an item of lesser value. That's not all that much of a sale in the grand [ponzi] scheme of things.
She said the idea, initially a joke, came out of a weekly brain-storming meeting as the company sought for way to stimulate the slow market by "creating a buzz".
Most of our country's "brain-storming" economic policies intended to "stimulate" our "slow market" were "initially a joke", if you like gallows humor that is.
"Initially?" Heck, I'm still laughing at some of this stuff.
ReplyDeleteAs ol' Brer Rabbit said, "I didn't say it was YOUR laughin' place!"
threetorches,
ReplyDelete"Initially?" Heck, I'm still laughing at some of this stuff.
The jokes are getting a bit old. I think they need to stop using the same punch bowl. Um, I mean punch line.
I thought I saw a billboard two-for-one on tract homes outside of Las Vegas last year. They didn't start up the media machine I guess.
ReplyDeleteDavid,
ReplyDeleteThe "media machine" was probably video poker. ;)
Let it Ride
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Ride_%28card_game%29
Let It Ride is a casino variation of poker, played against the casino rather than against the other players. The game's relatively slow pace and the chance to pull back two of the three bets has made Let It Ride popular with older players and table game neophytes. At the same time, the game's slow pace has resulted in some casino dealers nicknaming the game Let It Die.