I'd given E. a coupon earlier for a $10 Publix gift card with the purchase of $50 in groceries. (Someone at work was sending around the link to the coupon, and I printed out a few.) I tried to use the coupon tonight, and it didn't work. The checkout lady said it had to be an "original" (and said it says so on the coupon). (I hadn't even read it.) So I wanted to let E. know.
Also, we'd been talking earlier about where he and BF live now, and I looked the property up on the Property Appraiser website before I called E. Just now, I read some of the data on it to E. It's a 1,160 sq. ft. condo built in 1971. (I assume it's 2 bedrooms / 2 baths, though the web page doesn't say, and E. said it's two stories.) The BF bought it for $115,000 in 2006, and it's now appraised at $40,920. I was shocked when E. just told me that the BF has stopped making the $600-something mortgage payment (including taxes, I assume) and will stay there till they kick him out. I said, how stupid. E. agreed and said that for $600-something a month, the BF's not going to be able to find anything as nice. So E. actually has to leave (and getting away from "that mess" has another dynamic I didn't know about). It sounds like the guy is just pissed that the value has dropped, and he probably owes a lot more on the place than it's now worth. But still. E.'s right.
Not much on TV tonight. Now I'm now watching a 2002 documentary on the Travel Channel about a ship that serves as a "residential community owned by its residents" - MS The World. This is from the Wikipedia article:
As of 2010, a 328 sq ft (30.5 m2) studio (Ocean Studio 661) has a list price of USD $600,000. Ocean Residence 1006 (2 bedroom, 2.5 bath) list price USD $2,950,000. The World Suite 1108/1110 list price USD $13,500,000.[Emphasis added.] I'd heard about it before. Now that's an expensive condo.
Monthly homeowner dues range from $20,000 per month (for the smaller units) and up, and cover fuel, crew, maintenance and a meal allowance for the owner.
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