Sold to the slick Gentleman on my right for 400 dolalrs

After months of real estate-agent-bickering and property magazine-page-flipping, i finally bought a house. Its not a big awesome 3 bedroom cheddar house with pine floors or anything expensive as i had initially planned to splash out on. But a cheap 1st home type of house that would probably be put out for rent once the paper work is finalized this week. The house is a 1930s 2 bedroom 1 bathroom character home, with 2 sun-decks sizing at 190sqm and shares the back-end wall with the neighbor's house but facing opposite directions. This makes it a semi-d type of house for that matter. But at the price i'm paying, its a real bargain. You don't get to see the neighbor at any time, unless u climb out the back n jump over the side fence. Its got its own driveway and a couple of shady infant trees to give it that country look. The hall is pretty big and adjoins the kitchen with a complimentary glasstop cooker. I reckon that if all goes as planned, the rent on this place would pay for it self. All blues and nothing to loose.

When i went up there to view the property initially, i was told that the previous owner was thai and that his son was staying there so the agent had to ask for permission to process on to entering the house to view it. On entering the newly carpeted and painted house, i saw 3 thai looking dudes sitting on the deck while drinking some thai homebrew navathippai whiskey.

Made me think i was in Patpong downtown bangkok. Typical of thais getting pissed on a sat nite with a deck of cards. I smiled at them as i entered their house with the agent.

While in deep conversation with the agent, suddenly a cop car pulled up onto the driveway and asked for some dude with a thai name. Geeweez. The agent said that he was selling the house for the dudes dad and that the dude didn't live here though his friends were sitting out on the deck.

Looking at me with an evil eye the cops then asked if i was the dude's dad that he was selling house for. Agent gave them a negative and they went to have a word with the 3 thai tamngans on the other side of the house.

Damn i don't look thai enuf .. what a piss take! Just like a scene off Bad Boys the cop story eh?

The masterbedroom was of a twin size with a walk-in wardrobe. Although the walls were recently painted and the carpets were new, you could tell that the house had a long history. But thats why they're called character homes i reckon. The driveway looked alright with some lawn behind it where the clothes line was. Its looking good for an investment, but i don't think i'd want to live here for now. There is a soccer field and a swimming pool just 200 yards from the house and a corner shop in the opposite direction at about the same distance. Alls well ends well.

After signing all the necessary paperwork to forge the deal forward, I drove home in my honda accord thinking whether it was the right move to spend all this money on a property thats 5000miles away from home. Images of what this kind of money could buy me at home kept flashing in my mind .... i kept thinking that the exchange rate was now at 2.9 and still rising due to the declining USD. Man .. it was a tough call. Just like everything else is in life is a tough call, but i believe in taking a chance on ur gut feeling. After all, the last 2 years of my life had been about taking chances on my gut feelings. So why should this be any different eh? Right now my gut feeling tells me that this is a right move and that the market will bounce back in the next 6 months to appreciate the value of this property. D for Dawg.