Archive for April, 2010

Condo, Apartment or Dorm?

When I was in college I had a hard time trying to choose between the three.

A dorm is quite cheap and practical, but you’d have to live and deal with room mates. An apartment is a little more expensive since you’d have to pay for electricity and water consumption and the condo is usually the most expensive and most luxurious one between the three.

I tried living on a dorm and I stayed there for a year, but at some point I almost wanted to skin my room mates alive for I just couldn’t deal with their mess. I ended up sticking to an apartment since it’s not as expensive as a condo. I found the increase in payment more worth it than the stress and depression having annoying room mates could give.

The History of the Concept of Property

Way back during the primitive era, everything was conjugal. The people from that era knew how to share things. They were nomads. They lived life pretty simply, being the parasites of nature, as historians call it, for they simply move from one place to another as long as the resources began to deplete slowly each day, that it reaches the point where it can’t support them anymore.

Then people discovered farming, or how to plant things. The concept of property began here. The surplus from the plants that they have rooted from the ground became theirs, and they stopped sharing. People who needed the surplus from the ones who have them only was able to pay through labor. Eventually the concept of property evolved to feudal property, and to what we are now today.

Real Estate People

I can say that one of my favorite Skins episode is when Chris became a real estate agent.

He had to struggle with many of his problems, and it was quite amazing to see him go through them, even if it was difficult for him for he never gave up.

Even if it was just a television series, it inspired me so, and increased my interest in real estate issues.