细嚼买房

自住房啊，要搁心里；

投资房呢，全放脑子里。

推敲推敲，是否在理？

I have learnt that from a female R.E. investor who was busy selling her own luxury home back in 2006. 那个疯狂的年代！She was selling! 毅然决然！ 能人啊！

那天，大雨倾盆，她open house, 一整天，可能就俺一人来看房，见着俺，高兴地就把俺拉进大厅，坐下开侃投资经。 俺仔细打量着眼前的妇人，怎么看怎么富态。 再把房子看个究竟，房前房后，屋里屋外，处处温馨。 可见主人花了不少心血。谈话中，了解到，早年她从伊朗移民来美。 俺不禁怯怯地问： 舍得卖吗？ 她环视了一下整个屋，意味深长地说： “I am trying, trying very hard...to move my home from my heart to my head".

I kept nodding but speechless...

时过境迁，妇人的话至今回味无穷， 让俺不禁想起Jonathan Swift的著名格言：

“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”

Let’s Keep money in its place.