Since I have already posted about virtual real estate online , let me show you prices of real estate in Las Vegas compared to “Rain City” (Vancouver).  Both cities have a population  between 1.5 - 2 million people. Weather is night and day. Today in Vancouver it’s 17°C and Las Vegas clocks in at 35°C. So they are twice as hot as us.

In the reverse aspect we are double the price of real estate in Las Vegas. Let’s take a look at Craigslist and compare…

Las Vegas home built in 2006, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms selling price? $139,000! Try and buy the same place in Vancouver and expect to pay $750,000. Las Vegas has some amazing deals right now because of the drop in real estate prices. You can barely even buy a used condo in Abbotsford for $135,000. Where woud you rather live in a 1 bedroom apartment in Abbotsford or a 2 year old house in Las Vegas?

Personally I am little scared to buy out of town just because of what happened to me in Winnipeg. That being said I may call Ozzie Jurock’s office as he is offering condos in Las Vegas along with property managers in place to take care of everything for you. Ozzie is a real estate genius and everything he touches turns to gold. If HE is buying there the you know it’s worth a closer look, sometimes he writes about different areas but if he isn’t buying a place there himself then I wouldn’t either. Winnipeg he has talked about , but he hasn’t bought there. That was my mistake, I bought there. When he recommended Prince George, he bought 17 townhouses himself and sold them for a profit. I bought 2 and sold them for a profit. I have learned this, it’s smarter to follow what people DO, not what they SAY. Actions speak louder than words..

CV,
reporting from Starbucks

I don’t link to other articles online unless they are worth it. Shoemoney had a blog post about how people have made money selling “virtual real estate” (not websites). Basically you can buy real estate such as virtual islands in videos games. One dude bought a virtual island for $26,000. I don’t completely understand the concept because I was never into gaming. I thought time was better spent learning how to build websites and how to make money online, maybe I was wrong?

It’s insane how people make money online and this is just another avenue. This is something I would never do, I can’t stand videos games.  I’m still a bit old school when it comes to computers, I got into them when I was 29 years old, so I wasn’t brought up with them. I’m 37 now so it’s to late to get started in the gaming thing, not that I even want to. Ha ha.

If find it interesting that people actually make money off of playing video games, it’s nuts. Check out the blog post here. 

CV

reporting from Starbucks