(Look, still using lyrics for blog posts… fancy!)
Anyway, since Gene is out of town, I have all evening to do whatever I want. It’s getting a bit ridiculous. (I’d hoped to fly up to visit him this weekend, but USAirways was determined to thwart me with crappy E-Savers).
So, I did something I hadn’t done lately – I went to Realtor.com and searched for all the big million dollar houses in the 90210 area code. (I always feel that if I’m going to look at big-ass houses, I’m going to go to where the concept was practically invented).
This is the first time I’ve done this since the housing crisis started and it’s amazing the number of $1 Million+ houses that are in short sale or “desperate”, etc. Cheesecake’s housing market has supposedly been strong until very recently so I haven’t seen any of these here. Wow. So, even the rich are affected by this. Hmm. Probably makes them miss the days when there were no property taxes (I think it was property tax), which is why so many super-rich people (I’m thinking of all the silent movie stars) had houses that were nearly palaces.