X-Message-Number: 20634 From: Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:59:40 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #20627 --part1_c1.2bcefded.2b2f6e8c_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From Olaf Henny : I said: > >In France wa have the so called Societe Civile Immobiliere, a way to buy a > >real estate properties with shares. Usually you can't sell them back as > >swiftly than a stock market share, but that could be solved with a special > >fund. > Unquote > Olaf Henny said: > You can have the same thing in North America by buying Shares in > Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) The return is excellent, at > least for now.. I have small positions in 4 of them: > I think the same must hold true in most countries under a name or another. It seems a good alternative to insurance or speculative stock market. In forty years, I have never seen a crash in the real estate domain. At least it evolves as inflation, so you can't loss. If you rent your property, you get a cash return on a value garanteed capital. This is a better basis that eratic speculation on the NYSE or similar places to fund cryonics. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_c1.2bcefded.2b2f6e8c_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20634