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The Home Front by Alex Markels

The Gay Marriage Home-Buying Discount

June 18, 2008 09:37 AM ET | Luke Mullins | Permanent Link | Print

I'll have what the California real estate professionals are having. First the two-for-one-deal, now this:

As the national housing market continues writhing in despair, one real estate agency is looking to take advantage of the state's controversial legalization of gay marriage to jump-start home sales.

With same-sex couples from across the country headed to sunny California to wed, Wellsford Realty in San Diego is offering incentives for them to buy homes in the area.

From wellsfordrealty.com (fist pound, Zillow Blog):

Whether choosing to make California their primary or secondary residence by buying a home in San Diego, domestic partners seeking to take advantage of the new Same Sex Marriage Law in California can now get their wedding reception or a honeymoon getaway compliments [of] Wellsford Realty. With the purchase of a condo or home using their services, Wellsford Realty is rebating 33% back on the commission which can be used to celebrate their wedding day or plan that long awaited perfect honeymoon.

Me? I'm a huge fan of this approach. Soften up your new spouse by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a rapidly devaluing asset, and he or she won't even notice when you leave the toilet seat up or pass out in the parking lot.

Tags: California | real estate | marriage

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what the hell why are you talking about your daughter having a a horrible disease resulting from anal sex with a man. thats a little weird lol

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Re: Donnie of FL

You are right, I am not gay, nor do I ever want to be. As for my daughter, by the time she is old enough to marry, you will have died of some horrible disease resulting from anal sex with a man. I won't have to worry about you wanting to marry her or anyone else for that matter.

The error in your comment is that I in fact DO have a right to share my beliefs with the world. That's the beauty of free speech. No one here is truly an "expert" at anything in life. God is the maker, and He is the expert. I don't claim to be.

He gives us free will, but he also has rules and laws because free will could take us anywhere. We just have strayed away from his rules and laws.

I am not pompous, nor do I boast about being "sinless". I am not sinless, but I do try to SIN LESS each day of my life. If you are gay, that is your choice (free will again), and I pray that your eyes are open to the error of your ways, and you repent to God.

I don't hate you, or any other gay, I just don't like how this agenda is being pushed as a civil rights matter (you choose to become gay, you don't choose your skin color). I also don't believe that marriage should be redefined, because that is the very foundation of society. People marry for wrong reasons, and of course don't understand the sanctity of marriage, so they don't need to get married regardless.

I hope you understand me clearly, and take the time to really search yourself and the bible to make sure you are not just jumping on a bandwagon that leads to hell because "the world" says its okay and that they accept you.

Peace!

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