Saturday, October 18, 2014

Real Estate



What do you do when you have some savings tucked away? Will you simply depend on investing in MF, or FD, or the equity market? But surely you won't miss the large, multi-page colour ads EVERYDAY in Bangalore newspapers about that ideal dream villa or flat!?

By the way, if you want to be a copywriter or visualizer, you should try your hand at real estate ads. There is almost nothing real or any estate (=estimate of ground reality) you need to know before you wax eloquent about a heaven in a Spanish villa located on the palm-fringed beach in Utopia, kissed constantly by blue waves, with an ozone-filled breeze and the aroma of the world's most exotic cuisine filling your nostrils as you come back from your power yoga session with the world's leading guru, all ready for some family chow.

But then we are all first and foremost dreamers. So we want to own that piece of a dream somewhere in Bangalore.

Where would that be? Somewhere, right now, in fact in many places around this garden city, there are huge JCBs clawing at the vitals of Mother Earth and uprooting trees and leveling land. Somewhere thousands are toiling day and night to erect the monument to your dream and someone else's greed. And thank God  there are some good builders too!

My piece of dream real estate is next to a holy ashram on a hill invoking the Mother Goddess. there is already a Cafe Coffee Day at the entrance to the complex. Now MTR 1924 has opened next door. 
The location is on the tree-lined road going south of Bangalore. You will find leopards and elephants from the wild on a rare occasion. Cauvery water comes in a huge pipe all along that toad.

Don't you think my dream has a real estate?