The View from Here
A Message From Michael Saunders
My good friends:
Apropos of Halloween being just around the corner, our financial markets
have become this season’s scariest goblin. Watching investments evaporate
into thin air is a frightening prospect; wondering if they will ever
re-capture more than a fraction of their original value an even more
troublesome prospect. But that’s the risk associated with certain paper
assets. In their worse-case scenario as an investment risk they have
the potential of being worth scarcely more than the paper they’re printed on.
Not so with hard assets, such as gold, silver and real estate. While the
value of these precious commodities is certainly given to market fluctuations,
it’s impossible for their tangible touch-and-feel qualities to simply vanish
overnight.
As challenging as the real estate market has been over the past few years,
your home remains an asset that can never be made worthless by callous acts
of corporate greed or blind mismanagement. Regardless of its up-or-down
value on any given day you have the inestimable pleasure of enjoying it
through good markets and bad. To borrow from an oft-quoted ad campaign that
has worked its way into the pantheon of pop culture: What you pay for a home
is one thing, what you eventually sell it for another; the joy and comfort
you derive from it along the way….priceless.
Read on and enjoy.
Cordially,
We would love to hear your comments and suggestions as to what you would like
to read in the weeks and months ahead. Please email them to me, care of
editor@michaelsaunders.com.
Meanwhile enjoy our seventh issue.
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Recovering With
Confidence
The word “confidence,” as in “lack of,” has been the watchword most commonly
attributed to the increasingly turbulent housing, credit and ...
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Hard Assets
To say that Americans are suffering an extreme crisis of confidence with respect
to their financial institutions, that were for so long trusted as ...
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Mortgage Update: The
Wells Fargo View
The current glut of housing inventory may soon experience
relief as opportunities for first-time homebuyers begin to shift. Historically,
first-time ...
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Goblins & Goodies
and Geeks, Oh My!
Courtesy of
ThisWeekInSarasota.com
The TWIS Street Team LOVES this time of year when the weather is
(supposedly)turning cooler and parties are everywhere due to that tricky ....
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How Sweet It Is
Sarasota’s Big Sugar
Restaurant Delivers Unique Flavors
Courtesy of
Sarasota Magazine
I must admit that I wasn’t quite sure what to make of Big Sugar when they
first opened. I just assumed it was a rum bar. Now that I’ve been there, ...
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