Consolidate debt

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Your Pleasures Are My Pleasure

Only a stones' throw away from this site, Auguste Renoir had his studio, and painted what he saw at the local dance terrace.

In 1990 Japanese industrialist Ryoei Saito, bought at www.sothebys.com for USD$78.1 million a Renoir known as:

"Au Moulin de la Galette"

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It was the second highest price ever paid for a masterpiece at auction. Non-plussed, he told the press: "If other good ones become available, I will buy more and more"

Mr. Saito & his company fell upon hard times, and shortly after his death, it was sold privately for USD$50 million to help repay debts which was - even at that price- a 26 percent loss before transactions costs, commissions (another ~15%)!

It is said that this smaller version is in Switzerland, but few have actually viewed it. But then it is also suggested that it was sold maybe by www.christies.com in the United States for between $87 million and $130 million to a man who wished to remain anonymous, though the buyer was said to have no plans to display it publicly.

Finally, as we see in Mr Saito, there are indeed people with more money than sense (sic cents), and we can only hope that they, too, are soon bitten by the philanthropy bug to help their fellow human in whatever their (hopefully) humane and compassionate charitable pursuits...

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Debts paid by daddy!

bartmpire posted a photo:

Iets teveel aandelen gekocht, en zat voor ?3,94 in de schulden.

Bills,bills,bills !

? ? ? Dhn3ood.Q6r ? ? ? Happy New Year posted a photo:

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interior

Mistifarang posted a photo:

not too bad: I have seen worse!

abandoned

Mistifarang posted a photo:

caused by several reasons. One of them is that the people got too easily loans either from the bank either from loan sharks against in between 7 and 15% (A MONTH!).
Most of such houses are belonging to banks nowadays for foreigners very reasonable prices. The Thai even cannot afford these prices. After a bit of renovating which cost a fraction of the purchase price one has a comfortable house.

Huan Hin sea side

Mistifarang posted a photo:

same situation; here one started renovating and left again. 2 Detached houses situated at 50 meters from the beach! There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of these offers throughout Thailand

Cookie works out how much we all owe each other...

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